Setting up NGINX with Express

Rather than being overly opinionated, Express is a very minimalistic and flexible framework suited for web and mobile application deployments based on Node.js. It's also one of the most popular bases for some of the more complex and feature-packed Node.js frameworks too, which is why it makes a great learning block for Node.js web deployments.

Getting ready

Express is so minimalistic that it doesn't come with any boilerplate code to get you started. There are a number of generators out there which can set up a structure for you, however, I'm going to stick to a simple web page and a WebSocket for testing. Here's my Express file:

var express = require('express');...