Defining and applying environments
Development and production code have different requirements. For instance, during development we will most likely want a detailed error output to the client, for debugging purposes. In production, we protect ourselves from opportunistic exploitation by revealing as little internal information as possible.
Express caters to these differences with app.configure which allows us to define environments with specific settings.
Getting ready
We'll need our project folder (nca) from the previous recipe.
How to do it...
Let's take a look at the preconfigured environments:
app.configure('development', function(){ app.use(express.errorHandler({ dumpExceptions: true, showStack: true })); }); app.configure('production', function(){ ...Get Node Cookbook now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
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