Week 10 - web

Question 1

What are 3 benefits of using Express

Answer 1

• defines a routing tbale which is used to peform different actions based on HTTP method and url
• permits the dynamic rendering of HTML pages based on passing arguments to templates
• makes server code simpler by imposing structure

Question 2

How does a template work?

Answer 2

At runtime, a template engine replaces variables in
a template file with actual values, and transforms
the template into HTML sent to the client.

Question 3

Benefits of PUG?

Answer 3

• using templating alllows you to write boilerplate pages that may be specialised
• good readability
• use indentation isntead of tabs for structure

Question 4

drawbacks of PUG?

Answer 4

• white space indentation is error prone

- you cannot use html, only pug

Question 5

what is reactive programming?

Answer 5

a way of programming in which the output of a

computation is updated automatically when the inputs change.