Express

I. What is Express.js?

Express.js is a fast, unopinionated, minimal list web framework for NodeJS.

It’s a server-side or back-end framework and can be used with React, Angular, or Vue to build a full-stack application.

Express helps us easily manage our routing, requests, server-side logic, and responses. It also makes our code easier to read, update and extend.

II. Why use Express?

• Make building web apps with Node.js much easier
• Construct an API and render JSON server
• It’s light and fast
• Connect to various data sources (with additional plugins)
• Support MVC (Model-View-Controller)
• Great to use with JavaScript and front-end framework.

III. What to know before starting

• JavaScript fundamentals
• Arrow functions
• High-order array methods (forEach, map, filter)
• Node.js & NPM
• HTTP status codes
• JSON