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Express Web Application Development

By : Hage Yaaapa
Book Image

Express Web Application Development

By: Hage Yaaapa

Overview of this book

Express is a minimal and flexible node.js web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications. It provides a thin layer of features fundamental to any web application, without obscuring features that developers know and love in node.js. "Express Web Application Development" is a comprehensive guide for those looking to learn how to use the Express web framework for web application development. Starting with the initial setup of the Express web framework, "Express Web Application Development" helps you to understand the fundamentals of the framework. By the end of "Express Web Application Development", you will have acquired enough knowledge and skills to create production-ready Express apps. All of this is made possible by the incremental introduction of more advanced topics, starting from the very essentials. On the way to mastering Express for application development, we teach you the more advanced topics such as routes, views, middleware, forms, sessions, cookies and various other aspects of configuring an Express application. Jade; the recommended HTML template engine, and Stylus; the CSS pre-processor for Express, are covered in detail. Last, but definitely not least, Express Web Application Development also covers practices and setups that are required to make Express apps production-ready.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Express Web Application Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

How to organize routes


So far, our routes and their handlers have been written right in the app file. It might work for small apps, but is not practical for bigger projects. After a certain level of complexity in our app, we will need to organize your routes.

So what is the Express way of organizing routes?

The Express way of organizing routes is—chose what works best for you. Express does not force, recommend, or suggest any form of routing pattern on its developers. However, it provides the capability to implement any sort of routing pattern you may want to implement for your app.

There are three popular ways of organizing routes in an Express app; let's explore them.

Using Node modules

In Chapter 1, What is Express?, we learned that Node modules can be of any JavaScript object type, including functions. Since route handlers are function, we can modularize our app by using Node nodules to define our route handlers.

Create a directory named routes to keep our route handlers. In the directory...