Theming your Express application

The Express team has done a decent job of making sure Express applications look okay out the gate. Our Notes application won't win any design awards, but at least it isn't ugly. There's a lot of ways to improve it, now that the basic application is running. Let's take a quick look at theming an Express application. In Chapter 6, Implementing the Mobile-First Paradigm, we'll take a deeper dive, focusing on that all-important goal of addressing the mobile market.

If you're running the Notes app using the recommended method, npm start, a nice log of activity is being printed in your console window. One of those is the following line of code:

GET /stylesheets/style.css 304 0.702 ms - -

This is due to this line of code ...

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