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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

Server.js – where it all begins


Whenever you write a Node app, you always need to start somewhere. The typical convention while building servers with Node is that you have a single server.js file located within the root of your project. This file will boot up the server and start the whole process. In our case, this is the file that will create the HTTP server and listen for all HTTP events, which is ultimately the point of our entire application.

We are going to keep our server.js pretty lean so that its contents are very self-explanatory. Any major logic that is going to be executed within this file will actually be defered to external modules hosted within other files.

Before we can do anything within server.js, we need to require a few modules that we're going to work with, specifically Express:

 var express = require('express'),
    // config = require('./server/configure'),
    app = express();

In the preceding code, we are assigning the Express module to the variable express. The config...

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