Express

TotT 2014

Express

"Express is a minimal and flexible node.js web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications."
- expressjs.com

Use Cases

• Single page web apps
• Multi-page web apps
• RESTful web APIs

Express Concepts

• Application
• Server
• Routes
• Request
• Response
• Middleware

Demo: Application, Server

Host, port, event loop

Demo: Application, Server

Demo: Routes, Request, Response

Verbs, paths, parameters

Demo: Routes, Request, Response

Demo: Middleware

Logging, error handling

Demo: Middleware

Review

• Application
• Server
• Routes
• Requests
• Responses
• Middleware