Node.js 8 the Right Way

Wrapping Up

This was a big chapter on creating RESTful APIs using Express. Let’s take a minute to reflect.

We started off with the basics—installing Express and a logging utility called Morgan. You learned how to put together the rough outline of an Express-powered web service using Node.

To manage the configuration of the service, we brought in a module called nconf. Using just three lines of code, we managed to configure the service through a config file while allowing overrides from command-line arguments and environment variables. You also learned how to use nodemon to keep your service running, automatically restarting whenever the code changes.

Next it was off to the races writing APIs that could use Elasticsearch to find books by the various ...