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Building an Express application that is reliable, robust, maintainable, testable, and can scale beyond a single server requires a bit of extra thought and effort. Express applications that need to survive in a production environment will need to reach out to the Node ecosystem and beyond, for support.You will start by laying the foundations of your software development journey, as you drive-out features under test. You will move on quickly to expand on your existing knowledge, learning how to create a web API and a consuming client. You will then introduce a real-time element in your application.Following on from this, you will begin a process of incrementally improving your application as you tackle security, introduce SSL support, and how to handle security vulnerabilities. Next, the book will take you through the process of scaling and then decoupling your application. Finally, you will take a look at various ways you can improve your application's performance and reliability.
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Advanced Express Web Application Development
Advanced Express Web Application Development
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First published: November 2013
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About the Author
Andrew Keig is a London based web developer who has been building web applications since 2000. He is the author of Packt's Instant RabbitMQ Messaging Application Development How-to. Andrew has a degree in Computing and blogs at blog.airasoul.net on topics he is passionate about, such as Node.js, REST, Web APIs, and behaviour-driven development. He also contributes to various Node.js open source projects. He is a director at Airasoul, which specializes in the design and build of scalable, RESTful, specification-driven, and real-time web-based applications on the Node.js stack. He is also the co-founder of openue.com, a property search startup.
This book is the culmination of my experience working on multiple Node.js projects. I thank those who worked with me: Johnny Hall, Mehdi Avdi, Jozz Hart, Keith Bowditch, Lee Wilson, and Craig Strong.
I would like to thank TJ. Holowaychuk, the author of Express, the author of Node.js, Ryan Dahl, Node's current custodian Isaac Z. Schlueter, and the thousands of Node module developers who have all contributed to making Node.js an awesome space to work in.
Finally, I would also like to thank my reviewers: Dave Poon, and Artem Vovsya for their invaluable input and the team at Packt Publishing for their support.
Finally, thank you to all my family.
About the Reviewers
Dave Poon is a web developer and designer based in Sydney. He started his career as a freelance graphic and web designer in 1998 and worked with web development agencies and medium-size enterprises. After graduating from Central Queensland University with a degree in Multimedia Studies and Master's degree in IT, he began his love affair with Drupal, and worked for a variety of companies that use Drupal.
Currently, he is a Design Lead at Suncorp, one of the biggest financial institutions in Australia. He is also the co-founder of Erlango (http://erlango.com), a digital product design startup, located in Sydney and Hong Kong, that creates user-centered digital products and tools for designers and users.
He is also the author of Packt's Drupal 7 Fields/CCK.
I would like to thank my wife Rita for her endless patience and support. Without her, what I do would be meaningless.
And also I would like to thank my father for his continued encouragement.
Artem Vovsya has been writing software since 2006, when he started working as a Delphi developer for a little software company. He got his Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering. He tried his hand at being a Delphi and .NET developer. Two years ago, he fell in love with Node.js, and now he's writing frontend and backend code completely in JavaScript.
Currently he is a frontend developer at Yandex, the leading Russian search engine.
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Preface
Building an Express application that is reliable, robust, maintainable, testable, and can scale beyond a single server requires a bit of extra thought and effort. Express applications that need to survive in a production environment will need to reach out to the Node ecosystem and beyond for support. Advanced Express Web Application Development aims to deliver a working real-world, single-page application that can meet these goals and allow us the opportunity to explore the more advanced features of Express.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Foundations, lays the foundation as we put in place a skeleton application; we introduce testing and automation practices that we will use to build our example single-page application.
Chapter 2, Building a Web API, helps in building a web API that our application will consume.
Chapter 3, Templating, helps you create a consuming client with a working web API in place and explore the client- and server-side templating.
Chapter 4, Real-time Communication, helps us to add real-time updates to content displayed in our single-page application.
Chapter 5, Security, guides us to secure our application as we look at authentication, security vulnerabilities, and SSL.
Chapter 6, Scaling, demonstrates scaling our Express application using Redis, and also looks at the benefits of decoupling an Express application.
Chapter 7, Production, examines real-world Express deployment issues such as performance, robustness, and reliability.
What you need for this book
In order to create and run the examples in this book, you will need a Mac or PC running Windows or Linux; you can use any text editor. This book will provide you with instructions on installing Node.js, Express, and various dependencies including Redis and MongoDB.
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 at least heard of Express before. The reader should also have a basic understanding of Redis and MongoDB. This book is not a tutorial on node but aims to explore some of the more advanced topics you will encounter when developing, deploying, and maintaining an Express web application.
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Chapter 1. Foundations
Advanced Express Web Application Development will guide you through the process of building a nontrivial, single-page application using Express.
Express is a fast, unopinionated, minimalist, and flexible web application framework for Node.js written by TJ. Holowaychuk. It was inspired by Sinatra, a web framework for Ruby. Express provides a robust set of features for building single, multi-page, and hybrid web applications and has quickly become the most popular web development framework for node. Express is built on top of an extensible HTTP server framework—also developed by TJ. Holowaychuk—called Connect. Connect provides a set of high performance plugins known as middleware. Connect includes over 20 commonly used middleware, including a logger, session support, cookie parser, and more.
This book will guide you through the process of building a single-page application called Vision; a dashboard for software development projects that integrates with GitHub to give you a single-screen snapshot of your software development projects issues and commits. This project will allow us to demonstrate the advanced features Express has to offer and will give us the opportunity to explore the kind of issues encountered in a commercial development and production deployment of a node/Express application.
Feature set
We will now begin the process of building a Vision application. We will start from scratch with a test-first approach. Along the way, we will explore some best practices and offer tips for when developing web applications with node and Express.
The Vision application will include the following features:
