Advanced Express Web Application Development

Preface

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. Advanced Express Web Application Development aims to deliver a working real-world, single-page application that can meet these goals and allow us the opportunity to explore the more advanced features of Express.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Foundations, lays the foundation as we put in place a skeleton application; we introduce testing and automation practices that we will use to build our example single-page application.

Chapter 2, Building ...