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Web Development with MongoDB and Node.js

You're reading from   Web Development with MongoDB and Node.js Build an interactive and full-featured web application from scratch using Node.js and MongoDB

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783987306
Length 294 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Welcome to JavaScript in the Full Stack 2. Getting Up and Running FREE CHAPTER 3. Node and MongoDB Basics 4. Writing an Express.js Server 5. Dynamic HTML with Handlebars 6. Controllers and View Models 7. Persisting Data with MongoDB 8. Creating a RESTful API 9. Testing Your Code 10. Deploying with Cloud-based Services 11. Single Page Applications with Popular Frontend Frameworks 12. Popular Node.js Web Frameworks Index

What is Express.js?


As described perfectly on its home page, Express is a minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications. In other words, it provides all of the tools and basic building blocks you need to get a web server up and running by writing very little code. It puts the power to focus on writing your app and not worry about the nuts and bolts that go into making the basic stuff work in your hands.

The Express framework is one of the most popular Node-based web frameworks as well as one of the single most popular packages available in npm.

If you look at a sample piece of code, one of the most basic implementations of Express, you can see how easy it is to get a web server up and running, for example:

var express = require('express'); 
var app = express();  
app.get('/', function(req, res){
   res.send('Hello World'); 
});
app.listen(3300);

The beauty of Express is that it makes...

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