Creating backend applications using Express.js

• Intermediate JS programmers who want to use server-side JavaScript

• The basic Request/Response model in Express
• Routing
• Working with middlewares
• Template libraries for HTML
• Creating and consuming REST APIs

• Knowledge of HTML at course level [HTMLCSS].
• Course-level knowledge of JavaScript [JS_PROG2]

Introduction

• HTTP
• Node.js and createServer()
• What is express.js
• Development environment
• Hello World
• Express generator

Basic HTTP work

• Reading a request
• Generating and sending a response
• Handling static files

Routing

• Simple routing
• Nested Routes
• Patterns
• Router object
• Parametric routers
  • url query parameters
  • custom parameters (e.g. /todo/:id)

Middleware

• Built-in middlewares
• Custom middleware
• Data sharing via request object
• logging
• error management
• session
• authentication/authorization
• validation

HTML generation using template

• Setting up the template engine
• Pug (ex Jade)
• Data presentation
• Conditional and repeated rendering
• Mixin

REST API creation

• JSON body parser
• CORS
• OpenAPI

Express and Typescript

Previous courses

JS_PROG1 - JavaScript I: Basics [JS_PROG1]

JavaScript II: Advanced techniques [JS_PROG2]

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