Alex Young (writer and editor of DailyJS.com) presents this session on building web apps with the server-side JavaScript framework, Node.js, and the web framework, Express.

We'll learn how to create Node-based Express apps, explore the overall ecosystem and recommended libraries, and gain enough knowledge to start building, testing and deploying applications straight away.

The talk will cover:

• Package management with npm
• Streamlining HTML and CSS with Jade and Stylus
• Recommended database libraries
• Sending emails
• Package distribution with npm
• Testing with Expresso and Zombie.js
• Deployment recipes

Alex is a freelance developer and web app entrepreneur, writing JavaScript, Ruby, and Objective-C.

Update: slides online

The slides from Alex's talk can be seen at asyncjs.com/talks/everythingexpress/

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