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Mastering Web Application Development with Express

A comprehensive guide to developing production-ready web applications with Express

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|Sep 2025
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Key Features

    Book Description

    If you are a Node.js developer who wants to take your Express skills to the next level and develop high performing, reliable web applications using best practices, this book is ideal for you. The only prerequisite is knowledge of Node.js.

    What you will learn

    • Understand the inner workings of the middleware system and build your own Harness and customize middleware for your needs Create RESTful APIs using Express Optimize the performance and throughput of Express web applications Gain an insight into avoiding repeatable code and improve developer productivity Secure, debug, and error-handle your application in a live production environment Improve code quality using existing tools

    Who this book is for

    Table of Contents

    1. Diving into Express
    2. Component modularity using middleware
    3. Creating RESTful APIs
    4. Leveraging the power of template engines
    5. Reusable patterns for a DRY codebase
    6. Error handling
    7. Improving application performance
    8. Monitoring live applications
    9. Debugging
    10. Application security
    11. Testing and improving code quality
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78398-109-0
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2014 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 358