Express in Action

Chapter 3. Foundations of Express

This chapter covers

• The four main features of Express:
  • Middleware for letting a request flow through multiple headers
  • Routing for handling a request at a specific spot
  • Convenience methods and properties
  • Views for dynamically rendering HTML

As you saw in the previous chapter, Node.js comes with a number of built-in modules, one of which is called http. Node’s http module allows you to build an HTTP server that responds to HTTP requests from browsers (and more). In short, the http module lets you build websites with Node.

Although you can build full web servers with nothing but Node’s built-in http module, you might not want to. As we discussed in chapter 1 and as you saw in chapter 2, the API exposed by ...