Introduction
As excellent as Node's HTTP module is, Express repackages and streamlines its functionality to provide us with a fluid interface that makes for almost frictionless rapid web development.
In this chapter, we will progress from generating a vanilla Express project base to a fully-fledged Express web-application foundation with MongoDB providing backend data support.
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Express 2 to Express 3
Throughout this chapter there are helpful boxes, like this one, that demonstrate how to migrate code from Express 2 to Express 3. The supporting code files contain both Express 2 and 3 code (with 3 commented out). Code files can be downloaded from http://www.packtpub.com/support.
