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Beginning Node.js
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Beginning Node.js

by Basarat Ali Syed
December 2014
Beginner content levelBeginner
308 pages
7h 10m
English
Apress
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CHAPTER 7

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Introducing Express

If you are going to make a Node.js web site today, you are probably going to use the Express web application framework.

In the previous chapter, we discussed the core of HTTP/HTTPS functionality provided by Node.js. We also demonstrated how Connect provides a middleware framework on top of a raw createServer call. ExpressJS provides everything that Connect provides (the same use function we saw in the last chapter as well as a dispatcher) and goes a lot further. It forms the foundation of many web applications that we will explore it in this chapter.

Along the way, we will introduce a few concepts that are relevant ...

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