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Express Web Application Development

By : Hage Yaaapa
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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

Built-in functions


Stylus comes with a large number of built-in functions to perform common operations on objects, especially related to CSS.

The following is a list of some useful in-built functions:

Function

Description

red(color)

Returns the red component of the color

green(color)

Returns the green component of the color

blue(color)

Returns the blue component of the color

alpha(color)

Returns the alpha component of the color

dark(color)

Checks if the color is dark

light(color)

Checks if the color is light

hue(color)

Returns the hue of the color

saturation(color)

Returns the saturation of the color

lightness(color)

Returns the lightness of the color

invert(color)

Inverts the color

saturate(color, amount)

Saturates the color by the given amount

desaturate(color, amount)

Desaturates the color by the given amount

lighten(color, amount)

Lightens the color by the given amount

darken(color, amount)

Darkens the color by the given amount

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