Author: Adrian Mui
http://localhost:3000/hello
npm install
npm update
grunt
- controlling what goes through git
// untrack files/directories
git rm -r --cached <file>
// delete untracked files/directories from git
git clean -n -d
- ExpressJS is similarity to that of a micro-framework to handle HTTP requests such as Sinatra
- Unlike Rails, .NET, Spring, ExpressJS requires you to choose your middleware stacks(which are basically javascript functions that handle the request, filters it with js functions, and adds a callback to another middleware stack and/or returns a response)
- alternatives are Hapi, Sails, Koa
- Hapi: server-side APIs, html rendering as well..(I HATE THIS)
- Sails: opposite of Express. Sails is like Ruby, has ORM, pretty much full BE stack. Doesn't have much support tho.
- Koa: created generator-based API. Nowadays uses promises and asynch requests.
- change the request response headers to provide more security
- Grunt as a Tasks Manager/Builder
- alternatives are: gulp[newer], webpack[js recompile, but u can combine it w/grunt], etc)
- because of its specialty in synchronous tasks.
- tons of plugins
- dotenv for ENVIRONMENT variables
- Mocha for Unit tests
- Elastic Beanstalk, RDS
- elastic beanstalk creates more instances of project as http traffic goes higher, auto-scaling
- 5 types of Middleware
- 3rd party
- router
- application
- error-handling
- Express4 has Sub-Routers that kind of split off APIs into their own little stack. It acts as a middleware with it's own set of routes and middleware.
- Service Orientated Approach (bundling up an object's model, view, controller, routes). Node is encroaching method.
- JWT(JSON-web-tokens) to protect APIs. No cookies, session authorizations.