Master ExpressJS with Azat Mardan's course. Learn to build RESTful APIs and traditional web apps quickly through hands-on practice and real-world examples.
This course dives into ExpressJS and NodeJS, allowing you to build web applications using JavaScript on both the front and back ends. You'll learn to create RESTful APIs and traditional web apps while getting hands-on experience through practical workshops.
Based on ExpressWorks automated workshop, author Azat Mardan (Pro ExpressJS) walks you through each exercise.
You might have heard about such rapidly-growing-in-popularity technologies as NodeJS or the M.E.A.N. stack (MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS and NodeJS). The brilliance of NodeJS is its fast performance and the ability to leverage JavaScript on the server. That's right! Developers can use one language for the browser and the server code. Even more so, they can use JavaScript for the database layer with MongoDB. Therefore, the full stack JavaScript becomes a new standard for web development.
With NodeJS being a low-level platform, it is not a framework by itself. This leads us to a problem of how we can organize code, parse requests, send back responses, use template engines, implement authentication, validation, and connect to databases among other things without solving those problems by ourselves?
For many years, NodeJS developers' choice of web framework is ExpressJS.
After taking this course, you can start mastering ExpressJS by building RESTful APIs for your single-page applications (powered by AngularJS, ReactJS, BackboneJS or any other front-end framework). With ExpressJS, developers can easily organize their code (middleware pattern), add more functionality (npm modules) and configure the server (configuration over convention).
Moreover, Express is mature and very stable so that it's a default choice for small companies and large enterprises. Even more advanced frameworks, like Sails or Loopback, extend ExpressJS (i.e., they depend on Express). Therefore, learning ExpressJS first is a valuable investment, because you can apply the same skills and existing ExpressJS middleware to more advanced frameworks.
This course comes with series of lectures and practicum. The benefits of ExpressWorks course and practicum (ExpressWorks the automated workshop) include:
Get the basic understanding how Express works
Build a few straightforward apps which introduce the core concepts
Become confident enough to start building your own REST APIs for SPAs
Become proficient enough to develop traditional web apps (server-side rendering)
Spent time coding, not watching boring videos with hands-on automated workshop
See the real code from the real large application built with ExpressJS, MongoDB/Mongoose, and BackboneJS — HackHall.
This course is brought to you by Azat Mardan, the author of Practical Node, Pro Express, React Quickly, Full Stack JavaScript, Express API Reference and other JavaScript/Node books.
Utilize Express and Node to build REST APIs
Use Express to create traditional web app (server-side rendering)
Use Express middleware static
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Azat Mardan has over 12 years of experience in web, mobile and software development. With a Bachelor's Degree in Informatics and a Master of Science in Information Systems Technology degree, Azat possesses deep academic knowledge as well as extensive practical experience. Currently, Azat works as Technology Fellow at Capital One Financial Corporation. Before that, Azat worked as a Team Lead...
It was not even worth the time I spent writing this review. Seriously, DO NOT BUY this course! Please, KEEP READING this review if you want to know more!
All I've had so far is a list of a guy talking over a static video. Do I get to do anything but listen? It's awful listening to a guy JUST reading a Powerpoint presentation video after video, not mentioning the same annoying opening and ending song that "explodes" your headset! The author just touches things but doesn't really explain at all, disappointing...
This course is the worst I have taken. I'd give zero stars if it were possible. Unengaging, unpassionate and not worth the money or the time. Luckily I got this course for free some time ago, also not mentioning the low video quality in some videos.
Very engaging presentation. Presenter gives lots of context to make the material easier to absorb.
Excellent course....
Clear explanation and engaging workshop mechanism to practice with.
Azat is able to effectivly break down the process into building an express app into manageble tasks. I highly recommend any of Azats courses
Azat is a great instructor. He teaches clearly and goes directly to the point. He's got fully domain of NodeJS and ExpressJS.
Thank your for your resource.
Not much explained, the author just touches things but doesn 't really explain at all, disappointed
Good start for express.js. A little bit basic but grealy recommended
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Sergejs C.
It is good as a quick intro into express.js + node.js, containing main important methods examples and explained pretty good!
Thank You!