eBook library online: Web Development with Node

Learn how to build dynamic web applications with Express, a key component of the Node/JavaScript development stack. In this hands-on guide, author Ethan Brown teaches you the fundamentals through the development of a fictional application that exposes a public website and a RESTful API. You'll also learn web architecture best practices to help you build single-page, multi-page, and hybrid web apps with Express.<br /><br />Express strikes a balance between a robust framework and no framework at all, allowing you a free hand in your architecture choices. With this book, frontend and backend engineers familiar with JavaScript will discover new ways of looking at web development.<br /><br /><br />Create webpage templating system for rendering dynamic data<br />Dive into request and response objects, middleware, and URL routing<br />Simulate a production environment for testing and development<br />Focus on persistence with document databases, particularly MongoDB<br />Make your resources a