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About the Author

Hage Yaapa is a contributing developer of Express and the head of Web and Node.js development at Sourcebits.

He joined one of the best medical schools in India, JIPMER, to become a doctor, but dropped out to pursue his burning passion for computers and the Internet. He has been creating websites and apps since 1999 using a very wide array of web technologies. He is a self-taught programmer and everything he knows about technology, he learned on his own from the Internet and books.

Yaapa blogs about Node.js, Express, and other web technologies on his website www.hacksparrow.com, as Captain Hack Sparrow.

This will sound crazy, but I would like to first thank Khaled Mardam-Bey, the creator of mIRC—the IRC software, which started everything for me. I learned many of the important things I know about computers and the Internet on IRC channels during the transitioning of the century. The first programming language I learned was mIRC Script, which helped me pick up JavaScript and other programming languages rather easily.

Next, I would like to thank T. J. Holowaychuk for creating Express and the unbelievable number of impressive Node.js packages he has created.

Then, I would like to thank Ryan Dahl for creating Node.js, and Isaac Schlueter for carrying it forward.

I would also like to thank Brendan Eich for creating JavaScript, for there would have been no Node.js or Express, if there were no JavaScript.

Last but not the least, I would like to thank my loving wife Kenyum for putting up with me while I wrote this book.