Full Stack JavaScript Development With MEAN

Chapter 13Using Express in Our App

This chapter revisits the example Human Resources application that was started in Chapter 6 and continued in Chapter 9. Up to this point, we've created a Node application that communicates with a MongoDB store. We used Node's http module to write a custom implementation for a router. Now that we have the more powerful Express router at our disposal, we're going to replace our http code.

If we were starting a new application from scratch, we would likely want to use a scaffolding generator, such as Yeoman (which has a MEAN stack generator); however, since we're updating our existing application, we're going to modify everything by hand.

Updates to package.json

The first step in our migration to Express is to ...