Web Development with Node and Express
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Summary
The book is organized into several major sections: the opening chapters introduce the basic concepts and brief history of Node and Express, walk through building the skeleton of a sample website, and discuss testing and quality assurance. Subsequent chapters delve into more important Node structures, covering template systems, cookies, sessions, and form handlers, exploring how to organize middleware, and explaining how to send email from the server. Later sections address data persistence, URL routing, API development, and the popular MVC paradigm. The final chapters focus on security, social media integration, and debugging, launching, and maintaining a website.
The narrative threads a sample website throughout, tying scattered knowledge points into a complete, production-ready project. Emphasizing engineering practice rather than a mere catalog of APIs, the book is well suited to developers who want to use a single JavaScript technology stack for both front-end and back-end development.
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- 已掌握 JavaScript 基础语法、想转向服务端开发的前端工程师
- 正在用 Node + Express 搭建网站或 API、需要系统方法的后端初学者
- 希望理解中间件、路由、会话等 Web 框架核心机制的开发者
- 带项目或带团队的工程师，需要一本可参考的工程实践读物
Not a good fit for
- 完全没有 JavaScript 基础、想从零学编程的读者
- 只想查阅最新版 Express API 文档、需要即时技术细节的人
- 专注前端框架、暂时不打算接触服务端开发的读者
Reading tips
- 先按书中示例网站顺序敲完整条主线，再回头单独精读中间件与路由两章。
- 边读边用 Git 分章节提交代码，便于比较不同实现方式对项目结构的影响。
- 遇到版本差异时以官方文档为准，把书中过时的依赖版本自行替换并记录改动。
- 读完后尝试把示例网站改造成纯 API 服务，检验自己对分层与错误处理的掌握。
About the publisher
Posts & Telecom Press is known for its strengths in science and technology, computing, and information and communications titles, and has extended its publishing into photography, art, software learning, and inspirational growth, giving it a fairly diverse range. Its catalog includes computing and communications works such as Refactoring and Patterns (Revised Edition) and Huawei Switch Learning Guide (Second Edition), alongside bilingual collector's editions such as The Little Prince (Chinese-English-French illustrated collector's edition), The Great Gatsby, and Three Days to See. Beijing Ten Years: 1980-1990 and Ghost Blade: WLOP Personal Illustration Collection reflect its presence in photography and art. Its authors include Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Helen Keller, Joshua Kerievsky, Wang Da, Zhang Zhaozeng, and WLOP.
FAQ
这本书有第2版吗？内容差别大吗？
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书里的代码还能直接运行吗？
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