Express web application development learn how to develop web applications with the Express framework from scratch
Here’s a comprehensive guide to making the most of Express’s flexibility in building web applications. With lots of screenshots and examples, it’s the perfect step-by-step manual for those with an intermediate knowledge of JavaScript. Exploring all aspects of web development using the Express framew...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Birmingham :
Packt Pub
2013.
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
| Colección: | Community experience distilled
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628710306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Express Web Application Development
- Table of Contents
- Express Web Application Development
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more
- Why Subscribe?
- Free Access for Packt account holders
- Preface
- What this book covers
- What you need for this book
- Who this book is for
- Conventions
- Reader feedback
- Downloading the example code
- Customer support
- Errata
- Piracy
- Questions
- 1. What is Express?
- What is Express?
- The story of Express
- Installing Express
- The stuff that makes up Express
- The application object
- The request object
- The response object
- Concepts used in Express
- Asynchronous JavaScript
- Node modules
- Express apps are Node modules
- Middlewares
- Request flow
- Node HTTP/HTTPS API
- Summary
- 2. Your First Express App
- Your first Express app
- The Express manifest file
- A very basic Express app
- Starting and stopping the app
- Analyzing the output
- Express app with views
- A public directory for the app
- Auto-generating an Express app
- Empowering Express with middlewares
- Empowering Express with Node modules
- Logging requests to the App
- Using a configuration file
- Setting and getting application options
- Express in different environments
- Summary
- 3. Understanding Express Routes
- What are Routes?
- A quick introduction to HTTP verbs
- Revisiting the router middleware
- Defining routes for the app
- Route identifiers
- Order of route precedence
- How to handle routes
- How to organize routes
- Using Node modules
- Namespaced routing
- Resourceful routing
- Making a choice
- Summary
- 4. Response From the Server
- A primer on HTTP response
- HTTP status codes
- 1xx
- 2xx
- 3xx
- 4xx
- 5xx
- HTTP response headers
- Media types.
- HTTP response in Express
- Setting the HTTP status code
- Setting HTTP headers
- Sending data
- Plain text
- HTML
- JSON
- JSONP
- Serving static files
- Serving files programmatically
- Serving error pages
- Content negotiation
- Redirecting a request
- Summary
- 5. The Jade Templating Language
- What is Jade?
- Generating HTML tags
- Hierarchy of HTML elements
- Assigning IDs
- Assigning classes
- Specifying HTML attributes
- Creating text content
- Filters
- Declaring the document's Doctype
- Programmability in Jade
- Variables
- Interpolation
- Control structures
- JavaScript constructs
- Jade constructs
- if, else if, and else
- for
- each
- while
- unless
- case
- Modularization
- Includes
- Template inheritance
- Mixins
- Escaping
- Comments
- Summary
- 6. The Stylus CSS Preprocessor
- Introduction
- Enabling Stylus in Express
- Selectors
- Selector blocks
- Hierarchy
- Rules
- @import
- @media
- @font-face
- @keyframes
- @extend
- @css
- Programmability
- Variables
- Literals
- Lists
- Tuples
- Listed tuples
- Mixins
- Functions
- Comments
- Operators
- Conditionals
- if, else if, and else
- unless
- Built-in functions
- Summary
- 7. Forms, Cookies, and Sessions
- Using forms to submit data
- Handling GET submissions
- Reading form data
- Reading URL query parameters
- Handling multiple options
- Handling POST submissions
- Enabling POST data parsing
- Reading form data
- Handling text-only forms
- Handling file uploads
- More about file uploads
- Submission via simulated methods
- Data in named segments
- Reading data
- Using cookies to store data
- Creating cookies
- Reading cookies
- Updating cookies
- Session cookies
- Signed cookies
- Deleting cookies
- Using sessions to store data
- Cookie-based sessions
- Session store-based sessions.
- MemoryStore
- RedisStore
- MongoStore
- Session variables
- Setting session variables
- Reading session variables
- Updating session variables
- Deleting session variables
- Deleting a session
- Deleting a cookie-based session
- Deleting a session store-based session
- Summary
- 8. Express in Production
- What the is production environment?
- What changes in production mode?
- Simulating production environment
- Benchmarking the app
- Creating an app cluster
- Handling critical events
- Closing the server
- Handling uncaught errors
- Using try-catch to catch uncaught errors
- Using domains to handle uncaught errors
- What to do in case of uncaught errors - to terminate the process or not to terminate?
- Handling process termination
- Ensuring uptime
- Forever
- Upstart
- Using a reverse proxy
- The trust proxy option
- Summary
- Index.
