Tackle any project with Express Get your tools ready Understanding and running the sample project

Exploring Express components and APIs Important Express middleware Creating a template engine for Express

Setting up a hosted MongoDB server Connecting to MongoDB Adding MongoDB and Mongoose to an Express project Creating a user schema for Mongoose Using bcrypt to hash and validate passwords Adding password encryption and validation to a Mongoose model Creating a user registration route Testing the form and reviewing the data in MongoDB

Understanding cookies and sessions Adding cookies and sessions to Express Inspecting the session object Introduction to Passport Adding Passport to Express Setting up an authentication strategy for Passport Serializing and deserializing users Creating a login form with Passport Providing a logout link Authentication vs. authorization Protecting routes

File upload basics Handling multipart form data with multer Resizing and storing images with sharp Creating an image handling middleware Serving images

Tuning Express performance: NODE_ENV and compression Tuning Express performance: Further measures Add logging Using the Node.js cluster module Securing an Express application Deployment and operation with PM2 Running behind a web server