Advanced Express

Course details

Node.js is one of major platforms for the web and Express is one of the most popular Node frameworks. This course is designed to take your development skills to the next level, with advanced techniques that will enable you to tackle more complex projects with Express. Learn how to integrate a database, build a proper user authentication and authorization system, securely upload files, process and serve images, and deploy your Express apps to production. Daniel also provides instructions for building a login form, improving performance with a cluster module, and securing your application. A complete startup project is included in the exercise files, so you can follow along with the lessons and have a solid foundation for future Express projects.

Learning objectives
Creating a template engine
Using MongoDB and Mongoose for user management
Authenticating and authorizing users
Adding cookies and sessions to Express
Creating a login form with Passport
Handling file uploads
Storing and serving images
Deploying an Express application
Securing an Express application
Running behind a web server

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Tackle any project with Express
02 - What you should know
03 - Get your tools ready
04 - Understanding and running the sample project

1. Know the Building Blocks and Internals of Express

05 - Exploring Express components and APIs
06 - Important Express middleware
07 - Creating a template engine for Express

2. Use MongoDB and Mongoose to Manage Users

08 - Setting up a hosted MongoDB server
09 - Connecting to MongoDB
10 - Adding MongoDB and Mongoose to an Express project
11 - Creating a user schema for Mongoose
12 - Using bcrypt to hash and validate passwords
13 - Adding password encryption and validation to a Mongoose model
14 - Creating a user registration route
15 - Testing the form and reviewing the data in MongoDB

3. Authenticate and Authorize Users

16 - Understanding cookies and sessions
17 - Adding cookies and sessions to Express
18 - Inspecting the session object
19 - Introduction to Passport
20 - Adding Passport to Express
21 - Setting up an authentication strategy for Passport
22 - Serializing and deserializing users
23 - Creating a login form with Passport
24 - Providing a logout link
25 - Authentication vs. authorization
26 - Protecting routes

4. Handle File Uploads and Process Images

27 - File upload basics
28 - Handling multipart form data with multer
29 - Resizing and storing images with sharp
30 - Creating an image handling middleware
31 - Serving images

5. Deployment and Running in Production

32 - Tuning Express performance - NODE ENV and compression
33 - Tuning Express performance - Further measures
34 - Add logging
35 - Using the Node.js cluster module
36 - Securing an Express application
37 - Deployment and operation with PM2
38 - Running behind a web server

Conclusion

39 - Next steps

Advanced Express

Authors

Daniel Khan