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Node.js in Action
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Node.js in Action

by TJ Holowaychuk, Nathan Rajlich, Mike Cantelon, Marc Harter
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
416 pages
13h 2m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 8. Express

This chapter covers

  • Starting a new Express application
  • Configuring your application
  • Creating Express views
  • Handling file uploads and downloads

Things are about to get even more fun. The Express web framework (http://expressjs.com) is built on top of Connect, providing tools and structure that make writing web applications easier, faster, and more fun. Express offers a unified view system that lets you use nearly any template engine you want, plus simple utilities for responding with various data formats, transferring files, routing URLs, and more.

In comparison to application frameworks such as Django or Ruby on Rails, Express is extremely small. The philosophy behind Express is that applications vary greatly in their ...

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