Overview
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Tackle complex projects with Express, the most popular Node.js framework. Learn how to integrate a database, add user authentication, process files, improve app security, and more.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Tackle any project with Express
- What you should know
- Get your tools ready
- Understanding and running the sample project
- Exploring Express components and APIs
- Important Express middleware
- Creating a template engine for Express
- Setting up a hosted MongoDB server
- Connecting to MongoDB
- Adding MongoDB and Mongoose to an Express project
- Creating a user schema for Mongoose
- Using bcrypt to hash and validate passwords
- Adding password encryption and validation to a Mongoose model
- Creating a user registration route
- Testing the form and reviewing the data in MongoDB
- Understanding cookies and sessions
- Adding cookies and sessions to Express
- Inspecting the session object
- Introduction to Passport
- Adding Passport to Express
- Setting up an authentication strategy for Passport
- Serializing and deserializing users
- Creating a login form with Passport
- Providing a logout link
- Authentication vs. authorization
- Protecting routes
- File upload basics
- Handling multipart form data with multer
- Resizing and storing images with sharp
- Creating an image handling middleware
- Serving images
- Tuning Express performance: NODE_ENV and compression
- Tuning Express performance: Further measures
- Add logging
- Using the Node.js cluster module
- Securing an Express application
- Deployment and operation with PM2
- Running behind a web server
- Next steps
