Overview
Create a fully-working, professional portfolio site using Node JS & Express
What you’ll learn:
- You will create a fully functional portfolio site using Node JS & Express. Along the way, we review request routing, templating engines, working with a database, REST API, image uploading, and AJAX requests with jQuery. This is a good project for anyone who has been studying on their own for a while but is having trouble tying together several concepts into a working, realistic project.
Since its introduction in 2009, Node JS has taken the web development world by storm. With a JavaScript based runtime, Node has made it possible to develop both the front end and backend using one primary language. Express JS is the industry standard web framework for Node development and in this tutorial, we create a polished portfolio website using both Node and Express. As we create the site, we explore the key parts of a professional Node/Express website and how each piece works together. We also leverage a local persistent data storage system so our site can store data, upload images, and more. Throughout this tutorial, we cover:
- Project Structure
- Templating Engine
- Request Routing
- REST API
- CRUD operations
- File uploading
- CMS for blogs and projects
- AJAX with jQuery