Node.js Web Development - Third Edition

Chapter 5. Your First Express Application

Now that we've got our feet wet building an Express application for Node.js, let's work on an application that performs a useful function. The application we'll build will keep a list of notes, and it will let us explore some aspects of a real application.

In this chapter, we'll only build the basic infrastructure of the application, and in the later chapters, we'll add features such as using different database engines to store the notes, user authentication, deployment on public servers, and other things.

ES-2015 Promises and Express router functions

Before we get into developing our application, we have another new ES-2015 feature to discuss—the Promise class. Promise objects are used for deferred and asynchronous ...