Express in Action: Writing, building, and testing Node.js applications

Good book for anyone starting with JavaScript backend development.

Easy to follow, and lot's of application in each chapter makes it easy to stay interested.

I'm fairly new to web development and only recently started writing server side javascript. I'm a student and purchased this book out of curiosity and to improve my overall web development knowledge.This book was an excellent read, provided me with knowledge on topics outside express directly, and was enjoyable to read. I don't view this as a reference book and I suspect that professional web developers, who use express daily, may find this book to be a bit too inclusive of additional information beyond strict express examples. I feel this additional information and context makes the book appealing and accessible and don't think the express professional was the target audience anyway.The greatest strength in this book, for me, was the breadth of the information provided -- I recommend viewing the "look inside" available on this amazon page to view the "brief contents" to see for yourself. At ~230 pages the book reads quickly (I easily finished and, more importantly, felt I understood the bulk of the information in only a couple days) and does not extensively cover every detail of the included topics. It does however provide a general overview, some relevant examples, and then information on where to find additional resources on the topics. I really appreciate this format.The section on testing, when compared to the other sections, felt a bit weak to me. I don't view this as a negative as I felt it did a nice job of covering why this is important topic, but I can't say I fully grasped the examples as well as I did in the other sections.

Ottimo libro su Express.js, probabilmente il migliore e il piú aggiornato sul mercato. Decisamente raccomandato per chiunque si stia avvicinando a questo framework JavaScript.

Nach vielen Büchern rund um das Thema Node.js und Express.js bekommt dieses Buch einen Spitzenplatz in meiner Bibliothek. Gegliedert in drei Teile (Introduction, Core und Express in Context) mit zahlreichen Unterkapiteln übermittelt es mit guten Schreibstil und tollen Beispielen eine Menge pracisnahes Know-How über Express.js/Node.js. Wichtige Themen wie API Design, Security mit JWT und Passport werden ebenso behandelt wie das Deployment von Node.js Anwendungen. Klasse finde ich dass das Buch (noch) top aktuell ist - während andere Bücher noch über die Template-Engine Jade schreiben wird hier schon der neue Name Pug verwendet. Kaufempfehlung, wenn auch nicht unbedingt für Einsteiger.