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Web Development with MongoDB and NodeJS Second edition

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Web Development with MongoDB and NodeJS Second edition

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Web Development with MongoDB and NodeJS Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
12
Popular Node.js Web Frameworks
Index

Chapter 4. Introducing Express

When we need to build a full-fledged web application, writing the whole application from scratch is not the best approach to take. We can think of using a well-maintained and well-written web application framework to build our application to reduce the development effort and increase the maintainability.

In this chapter:

  • We will explore the Express.js web application framework

  • We will explore the various elements of Express.js

  • We will develop the necessary code to bootstrap a web application using Express