[Alexandru VL Du U]Mastering Web Application Development with Ex torrent

A comprehensive and detailed overview using practical tasks for becoming well versed in developing web applications with Express.

This book is for Node.js developers that want to take their Express skills to the next level and develop high performing, reliable web applications using best practices.

Publisher: Packt Publishing (26 September 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1783981083
ISBN-13: 978-1783981083

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Strongly recommend book for all
By Pulak on 23 October 2014
Dipawali, the festival of lights, is the perfect occasion to share with you another book review. The book is about Express, “Mastering Web Application Development with Express”. Author, Alexandru has covered various aspects of web application development using Express through well composed eleven chapters.

Let’s go with each of the chapters in detail so that we can conclude that if you are not reading this book, then you will definitely miss valuable points and understanding of Express, a web development framework for Node.js.

Chapter 1: Diving into Express

The following are the positives of this chapter:

It talks about Express features and how it is different from more complex framework like Rails, or Django and or CakePHP

i) Use cases of Express
ii) Who are all using Express?
iii) How to structure an Express application?
iv) Chapter 2: Component Modularity Using Middleware

An important concept while discussing about Express is Middleware and hence this chapter among others deserves all the attention. Author has done justice and the highlights of this section are as follows:

i) Definition of Middleware and its’ functionalities
ii) Code snippet to explain how to configure middleware
ii) A practical example of middleware to have clear understanding of the subject
iv) Why ordering of middleware is important
v) An insight into handling error with middleware

No wonder at end of this chapter, you will have good understanding of what middleware is and how you can use it for your purpose