There is a set of middleware that is needed in most projects. This video provides a recap of them and explains how they work.
- [Instructor] Express gets most of its power…through middlewares that can be plugged…into the request live site to modify data…or change the flow of an application.…Let's look at a few popular ones.…They're also documented on the Express website.…Some are provided by the Express team,…some are projects on its own.…First of all, we have body-parser.…We need it to parse form data…into request.body.…Any project that has a regular form in it, needs that.…
Then we have compression…and we will cover that in the last chapter.…It lets us compress HTTP responses.…We have cookie-parser,…we also will cover that in this course.…It's needed to parse cookie information…from request headers.…Then we have multer.…We will cover that as well.…Multer lets you handle multipart form data,…and you always have that when a form contains a file.…Serve-favicon is also very frequently used…to serve favicons.…
Session, we will cover that in this course, as well.…It is, of course, important for all the session management…in Express.…Helmet, we will cover in the last chapter.…
Author
Released
2/7/2019- 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
Skill Level Advanced
Duration
Views
Related Courses
-
Advanced Node.js
with Alex Banks2h 3m Advanced -
Advanced Node.js: Scaling Applications
with Alex Banks1h 15m Advanced
-
Introduction
-
What you should know1m 20s
-
Get your tools ready2m 1s
-
1. Know the Building Blocks and Internals of Express
-
Important Express middleware1m 27s
-
2. Use MongoDB and Mongoose to Manage Users
-
Connecting to MongoDB3m 27s
-
3. Authenticate and Authorize Users
-
Introduction to Passport1m 39s
-
Adding Passport to Express3m 55s
-
Providing a logout link2m 1s
-
Protecting routes3m 35s
-
4. Handle File Uploads and Process Images
-
File upload basics3m 9s
-
Serving images6m 32s
-
-
5. Deployment and Running in Production
-
Add logging5m 3s
-
Conclusion
-
Next steps44s
-
- Mark as unwatched
- Mark all as unwatched
Are you sure you want to mark all the videos in this course as unwatched?
This will not affect your course history, your reports, or your certificates of completion for this course.
CancelTake notes with your new membership!
Type in the entry box, then click Enter to save your note.
1:30Press on any video thumbnail to jump immediately to the timecode shown.
Notes are saved with you account but can also be exported as plain text, MS Word, PDF, Google Doc, or Evernote.
Share this video
Embed this video
Video: Important Express middleware