In this post, we have prepared a curated top list of reading recommendations for beginners and experienced. This hand-picked list of the best Express-js books and tutorials can help fill your brain this April and ensure you’re getting smarter. We have also mentioned the brief introduction of each book based on the relevant Amazon or Reddit descriptions.
- Express in Action: Writing, building, and testing Node.js applications (2016)
- Pro Express.js: Master Express.js: The Node.js Framework For Your Web Development (2014)
- Web Development with Node and Express: Leveraging the JavaScript Stack (2018)
- Pro MERN Stack: Full Stack Web App Development with Mongo, Express (2017)
- Express.js Deep API Reference (2014)
- Express.js (2016)
- Express.js Blueprints (2015)
- Getting MEAN with Mongo, Express (2015)
- Express.js (2016)
- Learn NodeJS in 1 Day (2016)
Express in Action: Writing, building, and testing Node.js applications (2016)
Express in Action is a carefully designed tutorial that teaches you how to build web applications using Node and Express. Express.js is a web application framework for Node.js. Express organizes your server-side JavaScript into testable, maintainable modules. It provides a powerful set of features to efficiently manage routes, requests, and views along with beautiful boilerplate for your web applications. Express helps you concentrate on what your application does instead of managing time-consuming technical details.
Author(s): Evan Hahn
Pro Express.js: Master Express.js: The Node.js Framework For Your Web Development (2014)
Pro Express.js is for the reader who wants to quickly get up-to-speed with Express.js, the flexible Node.js framework. Author Azat Mardan clearly explains how to start developing with Express.js with a basic ‘Hello World’, and then delves into a deep API reference, before looking at common and abstract development problems.
Author(s): Azat Mardan
Web Development with Node and Express: Leveraging the JavaScript Stack (2018)
Learn how to build dynamic web applications with Express, a key component of the Node/JavaScript development stack. In the second edition of this hands-on guide, author Ethan Brown teaches you Express fundamentals through the development of a fictional application that exposes a public website and a RESTful API.
Author(s): Ethan Brown
Pro MERN Stack: Full Stack Web App Development with Mongo, Express (2017)
Assemble the complete stack required to build a modern web app using React: MongoDB (a NoSQL database) and Express (a framework for web application servers), which runs on Node (JavaScript on the server side), complement React very nicely. This book will also cover many other tools that go into building a complete web application: React Router, React-Bootstrap, Redux, Babel, and webpack.
Author(s): Vasan Subramanian
Express.js Deep API Reference (2014)
Express.js Deep API Reference is your short, concise guide to Express.js APIs. This flexible Node.js web application framework provides a robust set of features for building single, multi-page, and hybrid web applications. Through six to-the-point chapters, you will find references for configurations, settings, environments, middleware, templating engines (including Consolidate.js), extract parameters, routing, request handlers, response, and streams. Written by Azat Mardan, the author of Pro Express.js and Practical Node.js, you will find this short, concise guide indispensable for your Express.js work.
Author(s): Azat Mardan
Express.js (2016)
Express js is closely related to Node.js, and it is solely based on the latter. Most of the codes used in the two platforms are almost the same. Those who are familiar with the Node.js framework will find it easy for them to read and understand this book. However, even for beginners, this book is easy to read and understand. This is also how the platform express js is. The framework makes it easy for developers to create an MVC structure for their apps, whether web or mobile, and especially on the server side.
Author(s): Daniel Green
Express.js Blueprints (2015)
Learn to use Express.js pragmatically by creating five fun and robust real-world APIs, with a bonus chapter on Koa.js.This book is for beginners to Node.js and also for those who are technically advanced. By the end of this book, every competent developer will have achieved expertise in building web applications with Express.js. APIs are at the core of every serious web application.
Author(s): Ben Augarten, Marc Kuo
Getting MEAN with Mongo, Express (2015)
Getting MEAN with Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node teaches readers how to develop web applications end-to-end using the MEAN stack. You’ll systematically discover each technology in the MEAN stack as you build up an application one layer at a time, just as you’d do in a real project. Traditional web dev stacks use a different programming language in every layer, resulting in a complex mashup of code and frameworks. Together, the MongoDB database, the Express and AngularJS frameworks
Author(s): Simon Holmes
Express.js (2016)
This book is an exploration of Express.JS framework, which is one of the available JavaScript libraries. The first part of this book is a guide to the user on how to create a templating system, which can be used for rendering data dynamically on a particular web page. This has been discussed in a systematic manner to enhance the ease of understanding. The Request and Response objects, which are very common in Express.JS, have also been discussed.
Author(s): Daniel Perkins
Learn NodeJS in 1 Day (2016)
Node.js supports both client and server side applications. It is based on JavaScript and is very fast in operation. These distinctive features made node.js as one of the most powerful framework in the Java Ecosystem. JavaScript alone allows you to build real-time and scalable mobile and web applications. With this e-book, you will explore more on the node.js framework and how to use it efficiently for web development.
Author(s): Krishna Rungta
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Best Express.js Books to Master the Technology
We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some Express.js books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.
MERN Projects for Beginners: Create Five Social Web Apps Using MongoDB, Express.js, React, and Node
Author(s): Nabendu Biswas
ID: 3079278, Publisher: Apress, Year: 2021, Size: 14 Mb, Format: epub
Beginning MERN Stack: Build and Deploy a Full Stack MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js App
Author(s): Greg Lim
ID: 3214127, Publisher: Independently published, Year: 2021, Size: 15 Mb, Format: pdf
Beginning MEVN Stack Development (MongoDB, Express, Vue, Node.js)
Author(s): Greg Lim, Daniel Correa
ID: 3237927, Publisher: Independent, Year: 2021, Size: 6 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not definite. Some books are truly chart-busters according to Chicago Tribune, others are written by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant resources you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.