who am I?
Full-Stack Web Developer at
ASTi
- AngularJS
- NodeJS
- Express
- Python
What is 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."
what's this mean?
- Express is an abstraction on top of NodeJS to simplify the development of many types of web apps.
- Easy to download through NPM.
- Great for doing things like RESTful APIs.
what's built in?
- As of version 4.0 less, but many things were pulled out into official middleware packages.
- Easily handle different HTTP requests (GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, etc).
- Ability to serve static content.
what about the other modules?
- HTTP request body parsing
- Compression
- Sessions
Really just common tasks for a webserver.
what pairs well with express?
Many people like using Nginx to handle static content and as a proxy in front of an Express app.
Nginx is a standalone webserver/proxy that runs many major websites on the Internet.
Alternatives?
Most of these are large opinionated frameworks.
- Flatiron
- Koa
- Restify
- Sails.js
- Hapi.js
How do i use it?
var express = require('express');
var app = express();
// Configure some routes
app.route('/hello)
.get(function(req, res, next) {
res.send('world!');
})
.post(function(req, res, next) {
console.log('we got a post!');
});
// Give it the port to listen to
app.listen(8080);
questions?
E-mail me at rtucker88@gmail.com
