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Node.js Web Development

You're reading from   Node.js Web Development Server-side development with Node 10 made easy

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788626859
Length 492 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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David Herron David Herron
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Preface 1. About Node.js FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting up Node.js 3. Node.js Modules 4. HTTP Servers and Clients 5. Your First Express Application 6. Implementing the Mobile-First Paradigm 7. Data Storage and Retrieval 8. Multiuser Authentication the Microservice Way 9. Dynamic Client/Server Interaction with Socket.IO 10. Deploying Node.js Applications 11. Unit Testing and Functional Testing 12. Security 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Theming your Express application

The Express team has done a decent job of making sure Express applications look okay out of the gate. Our Notes application won't win any design awards, but at least it isn't ugly. There's a lot of ways to improve it, now that the basic application is running. Let's take a quick look at theming an Express application. In Chapter 6, Implementing the Mobile-First Paradigm, we'll take a deeper dive, focusing on that all-important goal of addressing the mobile market.

If you're running the Notes application using the recommended method, npm start, a nice log of activity is being printed in your console window. One of those is the following:

GET /stylesheets/style.css 304 0.702 ms - - 

This is due to this line of code that we put in layout.hbs:

<link rel='stylesheet' href='/stylesheets/style.css&apos...
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