Advanced Express Web Application Development -- Table of Contents -- Advanced Express Web Application Development -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Foundations -- Feature set -- Installation -- package.json -- Testing Express with Mocha and SuperTest -- Feature: Heartbeat -- Continuous testing with Mocha -- Code coverage with Mocha and JSCoverage -- Configuring Express with Nconf -- Extracting routes -- 404 handling middleware -- Logging middleware -- Logging with Winston -- Task automation with Grunt -- Summary -- 2. Building a Web API -- Persisting data with MongoDB and Mongoose -- GitHub tokens -- Feature: Create a project -- Feature: Get a project -- Feature: Edit a project -- Feature: Delete a project -- Feature: List projects -- GitHub API -- Feature: List repositories -- Feature: List commits -- Feature: List issues -- Validating parameters with param middleware -- Route improvements -- Summary -- 3. Templating -- Server-side templating -- Feature: Master Page -- Package management with Bower -- Templates -- Client-side development with Backbone.js -- Feature: List projects -- Feature: List repositories -- Feature: Create a project -- Feature: Edit a project -- Feature: Delete a project -- Feature: List commits -- Feature: List issues -- Summary -- 4. Real-time Communication -- Caching data with Redis -- Populating Redis -- Socket.IO -- Socket.IO on the client -- Scheduling Redis population -- Summary -- 5. Security -- Setting up Passport.

Acceptance testing with Cucumber and Zombie.js -- Feature: Authentication -- Scenario: User logs in successfully -- Scenario: User logs out successfully -- Securing our site with HTTPS -- Sharing Express sessions with Socket.IO -- Cross-site request forgery -- Improving security with HTTP headers and helmet -- Summary -- 6. Scaling -- Scaling Express sessions with Redis -- Scaling Socket.IO with Redis -- Scaling Express horizontally -- vision-core -- vision-api -- vision-worker -- vision-web -- Vertical scale with Cluster -- Balancing load with Hipache -- Summary -- 7. Production -- Error handling, domains, and crash-only design -- Redis sessions -- SSL termination -- Caching -- Favicon -- Minification -- Compression -- Logging -- Summary -- Index.