Awesome Express

Curated list of express.js resources

Contents

• General
• Videos
• Books
• Articles
• Courses
• Tools
• Middleware
• Security
• Addons

General

• Official website - official website for express.js
• GitHub repository - express.js GitHub repository
• Express workshop - workshop built on top of workshopper

Videos

• Tutorial series by Code School - code School tutorial covering express fundamentals
• Tutorial by Derek Banas - 1 hour tutorial by Derek Banas

Books

• Express in Action
• Web Development with Node and Express
• Express Web Application Developement
• Express.js Blueprints

Articles

• Learn to Use the New Router in ExpressJS 4.0 - express routing tutorial
• Simple server side cache for Express.js with Node.js - simple caching for express.js
• How to uncouples emit events from connection event into socket.io and express - Uncoupling socket emit events with express
• LinkedIn Login using Node JS, Express and passport - Implement "log in with LinkedIn" tutorial
• Facebook Login using Node JS, Express and passport - Implement "log in with Facebook" tutorial
• Creating a Google Hangout Bot with Express and Node.js - Tutorial to build chat bot for express.js
• OAuth implementation with Node.js and Github - Tutorial for implementing oAuth using Node.js and express
• Express integration with TW Elements - Article that shows you how to integrate Express with Tailwind

Courses

• express.js fundamentals - udemy course with fundamentals of express.js
• Projects in ExpressJS - Learn ExpressJs building 10 projects - hands on tutorial with express.js on udemy
• Building blocks of express.js - course from Code School
• Curated Express.js Courses - a list of community curated resources
• express.js Courses at Classpert - a list of courses (free and paid) from Classpert Online Course Search
• express.js Course From MDN - a free course from Mozzila Developer's Netowrk
• Just Express (with a bunch of node and http). In detail. - udemy course that covers in-depth details of express.js
• Learn Express - udemy course that covers fundamentals of express.js

Tools

• Express application generator - a generator to scaffold the basic structure of a express project
• Express mvc generator - modified express generator with MVC architecture
• Yeoman express generator - generator-express - a yeoman generator
• MicroTS - code generator for microservices in TypeScript
• design-first - A REST api templating engine for Typescript
• Express Interactive ES6+ generator - A generator with ES6+ support, interactive CLI and db configurations to scaffold the project.

Middleware

• Expressa - express middleware for easily making REST apis
• morgan - log each request
• cors - enable CORS
• body-parser - Node.js body parsing middleware
• multer - Node.js middleware for handling multipart/form-data
• session - simple session middleware for Express
• compression - compress response bodies for all request that traverse through the middleware
• express-youch - Dev-friendly error reporting middleware
• errorhandler - development-only error handler middleware
• serve-favicon - favicon serving middleware
• csurf - Node.js CSRF protection middleware
• Passport - Simple, unobtrusive authentication
• Merror - A RESTful-friendly Express Middleware for HTTP error handling and error responses
• optic-document-express - Document express APIs from your integration tests
• stats - Request statistics middleware that stores response times, status code counts, etc
• swagger-stats - API Telemetry and APM - Trace API calls and Monitor API performance, health and usage statistics in Node.js Microservices
• express-routes-catalogue - A simple utility that lists out all registered routes in your express application.
• tweenz - A library for writing Express middleware, inspired by Pyramid tweens.
• express-sharp - Real-time image processing for your express application
• express-actuator - Middleware with endpoints to help you monitor and manage applications through healthchecks
• express-decorator-router - Use decorators in a simple way without transpiling Javascript code
• sonic-express - Automate generating swagger docs for your API endpoints without writing any docs
• express-pino-logger - Use the fast, low overhead Pino logger to log each request.
• express-validator - express-validator is a set of express.js middlewares that wraps validator.js validator and sanitizer functions.
• express-response-hooks - Intercept and mutate responses before they are sent to the client

Monitoring

• apitally - Client library for Apitally, a simple API monitoring & analytics tool with alerting for Express.

Microservices

• ExpressGateway - a microservices API Gateway built on top of ExpressJS

Security

• Security best practices - production Best Practices: Security
• Security tips from NodeSource - 9 Security Tips to Keep Express from Getting Pwned
• Helmet.js - help secure Express apps with various HTTP headers
• protect - Out-of-box, proactive protection for common security problems, like SQL injection attacks, XSS attacks, brute force, etc
• express-sslify - Automatically redirects to an HTTPS address

Addons

• Kraken.js - kraken is a secure and scalable layer that extends express by providing structure and convention

License

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