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Express in Action: Writing, building, and testing Node.js applications

Acknowledgments

There were so many people who helped out with this book.

I’ll start with folks at Manning Publications:

Thanks to Nicole Butterfield for approaching me about writing this book—she’s the first person I spoke to at Manning. Mike Stephens and Marjan Bace have been keeping an eye on the book throughout the process and have helped steer it in a good direction. Matt Merkes did the technical proofing and made sure that all the content in here is as accurate as possible. Thanks to Linda Recktenwald for copyediting the whole manuscript and to Mary Piergies and Kevin Sullivan for bringing this book into final production. I’d also like to thank Sean Dennis for being my editor on the first few chapters; he offered a ton of valuable feedback that formed the early stages of this book.

A slew of reviewers (some anonymous and some not) offered a lot of comments that really shaped the book. Many of them have interacted with me on Manning’s Author Online forum. In alphabetical order, the forum participants include biospringxyz, BobCochran, grovejc, jtlapp, kwils, Magnitus, Misa, pala, RichD, and stlcubsfan, and a few anonymous users. The following reviewers all read the manuscript in its early stages and gave invaluable feedback: Blake Hall, Carlos Rubén Alfaro Díaz, Chang Liu, David Torrubia, Hector Lee, Jeff Smith, John Larsen, Jonathan Sewell, Koray Guclu, Nick McGinness, Nicolas Modrzyk, Paul Shipley, Rich Sturim, Ruben Verborgh, Tim Couger, Trent Whiteley, and William E. Wheeler.

The last person from Manning I must thank is my fantastic editor, Dan Maharry. His feedback and guidance cannot be overstated. He gave huge, book-wide suggestions that steered the direction of the book. He gave small, sentence-level suggestions that made individual statements clearer. The book is largely what it is today because of Dan’s help.

I should also thank everyone who created Express. Thanks to TJ Holowaychuk for creating Express, and for Doug Wilson who continues to maintain it with the support of StrongLoop.

Thanks to Sencha, Pixc, and Braintree for giving me Express-based projects to work on, which gave me a ton of experience.

Thanks to EchoJS and the JavaScript Weekly newsletter for promoting my original Express.js tutorial. Without that post being sent around the web, I’d never be writing this book!

Finally, I should thank everyone in my personal life that supported me as I wrote this book. For fear of getting overly sentimental in a technical book (before it’s even started), I’ll just name them: Mom, Dad, Jeremy, Baba, Olivia, and Peaches. I only gloss over your importance because it’s more difficult to quantify and because I’m not an eloquent enough writer.

This book would be an absolute wreck without all these people. Thank you!