Advanced Express Web Application Development

For experienced JavaScript developers this book is all you need to build highly scalable, robust applications using Express. It takes you step by step through the development of a single page application so you learn empirically.

Key Features

• Learn how to build scalable, robust, and reliable web applications with Express using a test-first, feature-driven approach
• Full of practical tips and real world examples, and delivered in an easy-to-read format
• Explore and tackle the issues you encounter in commercially developing and deploying an Express application

Book Description

What you will learn

• Drive Express development via test
• Build and consume a RESTful web API using client and server-side templating
• Secure and protect Express with passport authentication and SSL via stud
• Scale Express beyond a single server with Redis and Hipache
• Decouple Express for improved scalability and maintainability
• Support real-time application development with Socket.IO
• Handle failures with a minimum impact to service availability using cluster and domains
• Understand and cope with Express limitations, including when and where to go for help

Who this book is for

If you are an experienced JavaScript developer who wants to build highly scalable, real-world applications using Express, this book is ideal for you. This book is an advanced title and assumes that the reader has some experience with Node.js, JavaScript MVC web development frameworks, and has heard of Express before, or is familiar with it. You should also have a basic understanding of Redis and MongoDB.