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MEAN Web Development

You're reading from   MEAN Web Development Master real-time MEAN web application development and learn how to construct a MEAN application using a combination of MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783983285
Length 354 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Amos Q. Haviv Amos Q. Haviv
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Preface 1. Introduction to MEAN 2. Getting Started with Node.js FREE CHAPTER 3. Building an Express Web Application 4. Introduction to MongoDB 5. Introduction to Mongoose 6. Managing User Authentication Using Passport 7. Introduction to AngularJS 8. Creating a MEAN CRUD Module 9. Adding Real-time Functionality Using Socket.io 10. Testing MEAN Applications 11. Automating and Debugging MEAN Applications Index

The application, request, and response objects


Express presents three major objects that you'll frequently use. The application object is the instance of an Express application you created in the first example and is usually used to configure your application. The request object is a wrapper of Node's HTTP request object and is used to extract information about the currently handled HTTP request. The response object is a wrapper of Node's HTTP response object and is used to set the response data and headers.

The application object

The application object contains the following methods to help you configure your application:

  • app.set(name, value): This is used to set environment variables that Express will use in its configuration.

  • app.get(name): This is used to get environment variables that Express is using in its configuration.

  • app.engine(ext, callback): This is used to define a given template engine to render certain file types, for example, you can tell the EJS template engine to use HTML...

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