June 2014
Intermediate to advanced
696 pages
38h 52m
English
Express provides a simple but effective middleware framework that allows you to provide additional functionality between the point where a request is received and when you actually handle the request and send the response. Middleware allows you to apply authentication, cookies, and sessions and to otherwise manipulate a request before it is passed to a handler.
Express is built on top of the connect NPM module and provides the underlying middleware support provided by connect. The following are some of the middleware components that are supported by Express:
static: Allows the Express server to stream static file GET ...
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