Chapter 11Introduction to Express
We touched on Express earlier, but now we’re going to really dive into it. Express is a Node module that provides a thin web application framework around the core Node modules discussed in Chapter 5. As of this writing, it is the most starred module on the npm registry.
A Google search for “getting started with Node” will almost always lead you to installing and using Express. It is a very mature and community-tested framework. The first version of Express (1.0.0) was released in November 2010 after going through several beta and release candidate versions. The lead developer of Express from beta though version 3 was TJ Holowaychuk who worked alongisde a few key members of the GitHub community. After version ...
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