Express

Front 1

What are the five methods driven by the NODE_ENV variable

Back 1

1. app.configure
2. app.set
3. app.get
4. app.enable
5. app.disable

Front 2

How would you set the environment variable in UNIX?

Back 2

$ NODE_ENV=production node app

Front 3

How would you set the development environment?

Back 3

app.configure(function(){
app.set('views', __dirname + '/views');
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
...
});
app.configure('development', function(){
app.use(express.errorHandler());
});

Front 4

What are the two ways Express provides to render views.

Back 4

At the application level with app .render(), and at the request or response level with res.render(), which uses the former internally.