About
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.
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
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
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.
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
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