Summary

In this chapter, we explored writing a Node application, and particularly a web application, using the Express library.

We can distill the key takeaways from this chapter into the following:

• We worked through setting up a very minimal Express application and then went on to discuss Express routes and configuration.

• We then explored Express template engines and installed and configured Handlebars to render two different pages through our route handlers.

• We then discussed static files and implemented a login page, showing how to write data to session information.