nodejs-advanced-express

Advanced techniques that will enable us to tackle more complex projects with Express

Link to project example

project skills

• Creating a template engine
• Using MongoDB and Mongoose for user management
• Authenticating and authorizing users
• Adding cookies and sessions to Express
• Creating a login form with Passport
• Handling file uploads
• Storing and serving images
• Deploying an Express application
• Securing an Express application
• Running behind a web server

Tuning Express performance: Further measures

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Futher Recommendations

• Cache request results
• Don't use synchronous funcions
• Don't use console.log() because it's synchronous
• Handle erros and exceptions properly
• Use a cluster

Tuning Express performance: NODE_ENV and compression

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Use NODE_ENV=production to reduce the CPU and more

Compress Server Responses

npm add compression

and use...

const compression = require('compression');
const express = require('express');
const app = express();
app.use(compression());

Securing an Express application

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https://expressjs.com/en/advanced/best-practice-security.html