Web Development with Node and Express: Leveraging the JavaScript Stack

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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 dataDive into request and response objects, middleware, and URL routingSimulate a production environment for testing and developmentFocus on persistence with document databases, particularly MongoDBMake your resources available to other programs with RESTful APIsBuild secure apps with authentication, authorization, and HTTPSIntegrate with social media, geolocation, and other third-party servicesImplement a plan for launching and maintaining your appLearn critical debugging skills This book covers Express 4.0. Content: Introducing Express -- Getting started with Node -- Saving time with Express -- Tidying up -- Quality assurance -- The request and response objects -- Templating with handlebars -- Form handling -- Cookies and sessions -- Middleware -- Sending email -- Production concerns -- Persistence -- Routing -- REST APIs and JSON -- Static content -- Implementing MVC in Express -- Security -- Integrating with Third-Party APIs -- Debugging -- Going live -- Maintenance -- Additional resources.