Web Development with Node and Express

Learn how to build dynamic web applications with Express, a key component of the Node/JavaScript development stack. In this hands-on guide, author Ethan Brown teaches you the fundamentals through the development of a fictional application that exposes a public website and a RESTful API. You’ll also learn web architecture best practices to help you build single-page, multi-page, and hybrid web apps with Express.

Express strikes a balance between a robust framework and no framework at all, allowing you a free hand in your architecture choices. With this book, frontend and backend engineers familiar with JavaScript will discover new ways of looking at web development.

• Create webpage templating system for rendering dynamic data
• Dive into request and response objects, middleware, and URL routing
• Simulate a production environment for testing and development
• Focus on persistence with document databases, particularly MongoDB
• Make your resources available to other programs with RESTful APIs
• Build secure apps with authentication, authorization, and HTTPS
• Integrate with social media, geolocation, and other third-party services
• Implement a plan for launching and maintaining your app
• Learn critical debugging skillsThis book covers Express 4.0.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Getting Started with Node
Chapter 3. Saving Time with Express
Chapter 4. Tidying Up
Chapter 5. Quality Assurance
Chapter 6. The Request and Response Objects
Chapter 7. Templating with Handlebars
Chapter 8. Form Handling
Chapter 9. Cookies and Sessions
Chapter 10. Middleware
Chapter 11. Sending Email
Chapter 12. Production Concerns