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Advanced Express Web Application Development

By : Andrew Keig
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Advanced Express Web Application Development

By: Andrew Keig

Overview of this book

Building an Express application that is reliable, robust, maintainable, testable, and can scale beyond a single server requires a bit of extra thought and effort. Express applications that need to survive in a production environment will need to reach out to the Node ecosystem and beyond, for support.You will start by laying the foundations of your software development journey, as you drive-out features under test. You will move on quickly to expand on your existing knowledge, learning how to create a web API and a consuming client. You will then introduce a real-time element in your application.Following on from this, you will begin a process of incrementally improving your application as you tackle security, introduce SSL support, and how to handle security vulnerabilities. Next, the book will take you through the process of scaling and then decoupling your application. Finally, you will take a look at various ways you can improve your application's performance and reliability.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Advanced Express Web Application Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Feature: Delete a project


As a vision user
I want to delete a project
So that I can remove projects no longer in use

Let's add a test to ./test/project.js for our feature Delete a project. This resource will DELETE a project at route /project/:id and return a 204 No Content status:

describe('when deleting an existing resource /project/:id', function(){
  it('should respond with 204', function(done){
    request(app)
    .del('/project/' + id)
    .expect(204, done);
  });
});

Let's implement the Delete a project feature ./lib/project/index.js and add a del function. We attempt to delete a project by calling the static function Project.findOne. If we get an error, we return it; if we cannot find the project, we return null. If we find the project, we delete it and return an empty response.

Project.prototype.del = function(id, callback){
  var query = {'_id': id};

  ProjectSchema.findOne(query, function(error, project) {
    if (error) return callback(error, null);
    if (project == null) return...