Building Scalable Apps with Redis and Node.js

Processing forms

All web frameworks that are useful allow you to process forms. We have a route that we have not tested yet, which is app.post('/login', routes.loginProcess);. We have only been using and testing GET routes, so let's build a form and then do something with it.

We will create the form on the /login GET request. Before we modify our template, we will need some local styles that extend Bootstrap. Firstly, create a file that is called style.css in static/css, and add the following styles to it:

.facebook {background: #3b5998; color: #ffffff;}
.google {background: #dd4b39; color: #ffffff;}
.top-margin {margin-top: 20px;}

These are the styles that we will use to extend base Bootstrap. The styles are mainly for making sure that we color ...