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Full Stack JavaScript Development With MEAN
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Full Stack JavaScript Development With MEAN

by Colin J Ihrig, Adam Bretz
December 2014
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
6h 24m
English
SitePoint
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Chapter 11Introduction to Express

We touched on Express earlier, but now we’re going to really dive into it. Express is a Node module that provides a thin web application framework around the core Node modules discussed in Chapter 5. As of this writing, it is the most starred module on the npm registry.

A Google search for “getting started with Node” will almost always lead you to installing and using Express. It is a very mature and community-tested framework. The first version of Express (1.0.0) was released in November 2010 after going through several beta and release candidate versions. The lead developer of Express from beta though version 3 was TJ Holowaychuk who worked alongisde a few key members of the GitHub community. After version ...

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