Wrapping Up
In this chapter, we pulled together Express-based API-serving code and webkit-built front-end code that you learned over the last two chapters to develop an end-to-end application. On top of that, we implemented authentication through Passport for three popular providers: Facebook, Twitter, and Google.
Running your Node.js project locally during development is often different than serving in production. You learned how to manage these differences with nconf configuration and the NODE_ENV environment variable.
We got deeper into Express, writing custom middleware for authentication and configuring persistent sessions. You also learned how to encapsulate stacks of middleware and routes into Express Routersâmodular Express mini applications. ...
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