Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "The http module, which we initialize on the first line, is needed for running the web server."

A block of code is set as follows:

var http = require('http');
var getTime = function() {
var d = new Date();
return d.getHours() + ':' + d.getMinutes() + ':' + 
d.getSeconds() + ':' + d.getMilliseconds();
}

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

express --css less myapp

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "Click on the blue button with the text OK, I'LL AUTHORIZE IT."