Summary

Express in Action

is a carefully designed tutorial that teaches you how to build web applications using Node and Express.

About the Technology

Express.js is a web application framework for Node.js. Express organizes your server-side JavaScript into testable, maintainable modules. It provides a powerful set of features to efficiently manage routes, requests, and views along with beautiful boilerplate for your web applications. Express helps you concentrate on what your application does instead of managing time-consuming technical details.

About the Book

Express in Action

teaches you how to build web applications using Node and Express. It starts by introducing Node's powerful traits and shows you how they map to the features of Express. You'll explore key development techniques, meet the rich ecosystem of companion tools and libraries, and get a glimpse into its inner workings. By the end of the book, you'll be able to use Express to build a Node app and know how to test it, hook it up to a database, and automate the dev process.

What's Inside

Simplify Node app setup with Express

Testing Express applications

Use Express for easy access to Node features

Data storage with MongoDB

Covers Express 4 and Express 5 alpha

About the Reader

To get the most out of this book, you'll need to know the basics of web application design and be proficient with JavaScript.

About the Author

Evan Hahn

is an active member of the Node and Express community and contributes to many open source JavaScript projects.

Table of Contents

PART 1 INTRO

What is Express?

The basics of Node.js

Foundations of Express

PART 2 CORE

Middleware

Routing

Building APIs

Views and templates: Pug and EJS

PART 3 EXPRESS IN CONTEXT

Persisting your data with MongoDB

Testing Express applications

Security

Deployment: assets and Heroku

Best practices

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