Learning Web App Development

I previously wrote that several examples in the book don’t work with the latest version of Express.js. It turns out that getting the examples up and running in Express 4 isn’t really too difficult.

Alex Koutmos writes:

I found some good information here regarding Express 3->4 migration: http://scotch.io/bar-talk/expressjs-4-0-new-features-and-upgrading-from-3-0

And to specifically fix the issue in the server.js file, I did the following:

1. ‘npm install body-parser’ in the project directory
2. I then added ‘bodyParser = require(“body-parser”)’ in my server.js
3. Lastly, instead of ‘app.use(express.urlencoded())’ I did ‘app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({“extended” : “true”}))’

I tried this out and it seemed to work pretty well! I’ll update the examples soon, but in the meantime feel free to use Alex’s instructions to get up and running with the latest version of Express!

Thanks, Alex!