Express 5 Tutorial

Express is by far the most popular micro framework for building backend applications with JavaScript.

This tutorial will guide you step by step, explaining how to build an express application from scratch. It’s targeted toward complete beginners but expects a few prerequisites (listed in the first exercise).

In the first part of the tutorial, we focus on really learning the core concepts and learning to build a very basic application quick and dirty. In later lessons, we’ll dive into more advanced but very common topics. You’ll learn to bring your code to the next level by writing higher-quality code.

🐷 Quick and Dirty - A Beginner's Guide

  1. 1. Setup & Overview

    2. Controller & Requests Basics:

  2. 2. Basic Routing
  3. 3. REST & Dynamic Routing
  4. 4. Middlewares
  5. 5. Serving Static Files
  6. 6. Query Strings & Form Data

    7. Views & Response Basics:

  7. 7. Response Types
  8. 8. HTML Response & Templating Basics
  9. 9. Control flow in EJS Templates

    10. Models & Database Basics:

  10. 10. MongoDB Database and ODM Setup
  11. 11. Schema & Models with MongoDB
  12. 12. CRUD 1: Create Records
  13. 13. CRUD 2: Read Records
  14. 14. CRUD 3: Update & Delete Records

    15. Wrap-Up:

  15. 15. Deployment
  16. 16. Summary & Recap

🚀 Next Level - Intermediate Guides

  1. 17. Express Folder Structure

    2. Controllers & Requests Continued:

  2. 18. Validation & Sanitization

    3. Models & Database Continued:

  3. 19. Complex Data Structures in MongoDB
  4. 20. Relationships in MongoDB

📚 Miscellaneous Guides

  1. 21. Deployment to Heroku
  2. 22. Deployment to Google App Engine