September 2017
Intermediate to advanced
392 pages
12h 9m
English
Connect is a minimal wrapper around Node’s built-in HTTP client and server modules. The Connect authors and contributors have also produced officially supported middleware components that implement low-level features used by most web frameworks, including things like cookie handling, body parsing, sessions, basic auth, and cross-site request forgery (CSRF). This appendix demonstrates all of the officially supported modules so you can use them to build lightweight web applications without a larger framework.
Node’s core doesn’t provide modules for higher-level web application concepts such as parsing cookies, buffering request bodies, ...
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