10. Deployment and Development
With the ability to build nontrivial Node.js applications firmly under your belt, you can now turn your attention to some additional topics on deployment and development of these apps. In this chapter, you start by looking at some of the various ways that people deploy and run their Node apps on production servers, looking at both UNIX/Mac and Windows options. You also see how you can take advantage of multiprocessor machines, despite the fact that Node.js is a single-threaded platform.
You then move on to look at adding support for virtual hosts on the server, as well as securing your applications with SSL/HTTPS support. Finally, you take a quick look at some of the issues with multiplatform development when you ...
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