Building a Website using Express

Status

⚠️ This is a work in progress. The material for this session is subject to change.

Description

Who is this session for?

This session is aimed at beginners that want to build a Website using Express. Most concepts from this guide should apply to similar Web Frameworks (such as Fastify).

What does this session cover?

This session will cover the following topics:

• Overview of the Request/Response model
• What is a Web Framework and why do you need one
• Why Express?
• Installation and Setup of Express
• Creation of a Web Server
• Responding to requests
• Serving static assets
• Writing tests for a Website
• Deploying a Website

Requisites

• Basic HTML, CSS and JavaScript knowledge.

Lessons

Lesson 1: The Request/Response model

• Overview of the Request and Response model

Lesson 2: Web Frameworks

• What is a Web Framework?
• Why do I need one?

Lesson 3: Introduction to Express

• Why Express?
• Installation and Setup
• Creating your first Web server
• Responding to requests
• Serving static assets

Lesson 4: How to test your Website

• Why you should test?
• How do you test a Website?
• Let's write some tests!

Lesson 5: Deploying a Website

• What is a deploy?
• Where can a site be deployed?
• Deploying a Website to Heroku

Contributing to this project

If you are interested in contributing to this project, please read our contributing guide for details.

License

MIT