Watchers for express application development

发表于 2014-08-10 | | 阅读次数

There are brilliant tools that can leverage watch method from the core Node.js fs module and restart server when changes are made:

Bootstrap an express application

发表于 2014-08-09 | | 阅读次数

Things we perform in a express application’s entry point file:

Import dependencies.
Configurations. Such as the template engine.
Define Middlewares.
Define Routes.
Connection to DB.
Start the app.

Example:

// Dependencies.
var expres = require('express');
var app = express();
// Configurations.
var port = process.env.PORT || 7654;
app.set('port', port);
app.set('view', __dirname + '/views');
// Middlewares.
app.use(express.favicon());
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
app.use(express.bodyParser());
app.use(express.methodOverride());
app.use(express.session());
// Routes.
app.get('*', function (req, res) {
    res.end('Hello World!');
});
// DB Connection.
// Start.
app.listen(port, function () {
    console.log('Service is running on: ', port);
});