Chapter 2. Your First Express App
This chapter is about understanding the core structural and functional aspects of an Express app. We will start with a very basic app and proceed to make it gradually more complex by introducing the components of a relatively advanced Express app one after another.
This chapter is essential to develop a very good understanding of what an Express app is made up of, and how it works.
You will learn the following in this chapter:
How to create a very basic Express app
How to define basic routes and handle them
How to use views
How to include CSS, JavaScript, and images in the app
How to use middleware
How to include Node modules in the app
How to log requests to the app
How to configure the app
How to run the app in different modes
