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Your First Web Server with Express

One week from hello world to a routed, error-handled server

A one-week classroom course on the Express 5 getting-started pages and guide: hello world, routing, static files, middleware, template engines and error handling. You finish with a small server of your own. This course prepares for no exam.

6Modules
IntermediateLevel
1 weekDuration
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What you will be able to do

Build a routed Express server
Write your own middleware
Handle errors in one place

Course outline

01
Installing Express; hello world
02
Routing: methods, paths, parameters and handlers
03
express.Router and serving static files
04
Writing and using middleware
05
Using template engines
06
Error handling and debugging

Tools you will use

ExpressNode.jsPostman

What you need

Basic JavaScript
Basic use of Node.js

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