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JavaScript from Frontend to Backend

By : Eric Sarrion
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JavaScript from Frontend to Backend

By: Eric Sarrion

Overview of this book

JavaScript, the most widely used programming language in the world, has numerous libraries and modules and a dizzying array of need-to-know topics. Picking a starting point can be difficult. Enter JavaScript from Frontend to Backend. This concise, practical guide will get you up to speed in next to no time. This book begins with the basics of variables and objects in JavaScript and then moves quickly on to building components on the client-side with Vue.js and a simple list management application. After that, the focus shifts to the server-side and Node.js, where you’ll examine the MVC model and explore the Express module. Once you've got to grips with the server-side and the client-side, the only thing that remains is the database. You’ll discover MongoDB and the Mongoose module. In the final chapter of this fast-paced guide, you'll combine all these pieces to integrate a Vue.js application into a Node.js server, using Express to structure the server code and MongoDB to store the information. By the end of this book, you will have the skills and confidence to successfully implement JavaScript concepts in your own projects and begin your career as a JavaScript developer.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
1
Part 1: JavaScript Syntax
4
Part 2: JavaScript on the Client-Side
8
Part 3: JavaScript on the Server-Side

Chapter 7: Using Express with Node.js

We saw in the previous chapter that a program for the Node.js server is an assembly of different modules. Many modules have been created by Node.js developers, which can be inserted into our programs using the npm utility (see Chapter 6, Creating and Using Node.js Modules). One of these modules is called Express. It is one of the most used modules with Node.js because it allows you to structure server programs according to the Model View Controller (MVC) model.

In this chapter, we’ll study how to create a Node.js application while respecting the characteristics of the MVC model by using the Express module.

Here are the topics we will cover:

  • Using the Node.js http module
  • Installing the Express module
  • The MVC pattern used by Express
  • Using routes with Express
  • Displaying views with Express

Node.js integrates into its internal modules the possibility to create a web server using the http module internal to...