Learning Node.js Development

Summary

In this chapter you learned about Express and how it can be used to easily create websites. We looked at how we can set up a static web server, so when we have an entire directory of JavaScript, images, CSS, and HTML. We can serve that up easily without needing to provide routes for everything. This will let us create all sorts of applications, which we'll be doing throughout the rest of the book.

Next, we continued on learning how to use Express. We took a look at how we can render dynamic templates, kind of like we would with a PHP or Ruby on Rails file. We have some variables and we rendered a template injecting those variables. Then we learned a little bit about handlebars partials, which let us create reusable chunks of code ...