Preface
Like many people working with Express, I started out as an accidental front-end web developer. I was trying to add dynamic content to a website and hacked together some of the worst jQuery code this world has ever seen. After many years, my code became less and less embarrassing as I became more and more competent as a JavaScript web developer.
A lot of web developers were excited by the prospect of Node.js. Being able to write JavaScript on the server meant that our abilities would grow without having to lift a finger; it seemed, once we learned how to write front-end web applications, we’d know how to write back-end web servers. While we did have to lift a few fingers, this promise turned out to be closer to true than false. We were ...
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