Advanced Express

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.

Introduction

• Tackle any project with Express
• What you should know
• Get your tools ready
• Understanding and running the sample project

1. Know the Building Blocks and Internals of Express

• Exploring Express components and APIs
• Important Express middleware
• Creating a template engine for Express

2. Use MongoDB and Mongoose to Manage Users

• 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

3. Authenticate and Authorize Users

• 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

4. Handle File Uploads and Process Images

• File upload basics
• Handling multipart form data with multer
• Resizing and storing images with sharp
• Creating an image handling middleware
• Serving images

5. Deployment and Running in Production

• 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

Conclusion

• Next steps