Building a Website with Node.js and Express.js

Learn how to build dynamic websites with Node.js and Express.js, a popular web server framework.

Introduction

• Dynamic websites with Node and Express
• What you should know
• Using the exercise files and GitHub
• Setting up your development environment

1. Building a Basic Express Application

• Create an Express server in three minutes
• Building from a HTML page or template
• Serving HTML pages and static content
• Setting up ESLint and Prettier
• Setting up nodemon

2. Template Engines

• Template engines and Express
• Getting to know the EJS template engine
• Rendering the index page with EJS

3. Express Routes and Middleware

• Express middleware and routes
• Modular routes with express.Router
• Creating routes for all subpages
• Add business logic
• Add a session management middleware

4. Professional Templating with Express

• Create a site-wide layout
• Using partials with EJS
• Template variables in more detail
• Looping through lists in templates
• Creating a list page
• Using parameter routes
• Challenge: Partials and lists
• Solution: Partials and lists

5. Handling Errors Gracefully

• How to handle errors in express
• Creating an error page
• Populating the error page

6. Handling Form Data

• Creating a form template
• Handling POST requests
• Validating and sanitizing user input
• Storing data

7. Creating APIs with Express

• A little intro to REST APIs
• Creating and testing an API endpoint
• Add client side JavaScript
• Updating the page from REST

Conclusion

• Build on what you've learned