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Express Web Application Development
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Express Web Application Development

by Hage Yaaapa
June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
236 pages
4h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Express Web Application Development

How to handle routes

When a request is made to the server, which matches a route definition, the associated callback functions kick in to process the request and send back a response. These callback functions are responsible for the dynamic behavior of the app; without them routes would simply be dumb interfaces that do nothing at all.

So far, we have been dealing with a single callback function for a route, but a route can have more than one callback function.

As mentioned earlier, the Express routing system is also built around the middleware concept—each route handler has the capability to send a response or pass on the request to the next route-handling middleware in the current or the next matching route.

All of a sudden route handling sounds ...

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