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Getting MEAN with Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node

Summary

Getting MEAN with Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node teaches readers how to develop web applications end-to-end using the MEAN stack. You'll systematically discover each technology in the MEAN stack as you build up an application one layer at a time, just as you'd do in a real project.Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Technology

Traditional web dev stacks use a different programming language in every layer, resulting in a complex mashup of code and frameworks. Together, the MongoDB database, the Express and AngularJS frameworks, and Node.js constitute the MEAN stack — a powerful platform that uses only one language, top to bottom: JavaScript. Developers and businesses love it because it's scalable and cost-effective. End users love it because the apps created with it are fast and responsive. It's a win-win-win!

About the Book

Getting MEAN with Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node teaches you how to develop web applications using the MEAN stack. First, you'll create the skeleton of a static site in Express and Node, and then push it up to a live web server. Next, you'll add a MongoDB database and build an API before using Angular to handle data manipulation and application logic in the browser. Finally you'll add an authentication system to the application, using the whole stack. When you finish, you'll have all the skills you need to build a dynamic data-driven web application.

What's Inside

Full-stack development using JavaScript

Responsive web techniques

Everything you need to get started with MEAN

Best practices for efficiency and reusability

About the Reader

Readers should have some web development experience. This book is based on MongoDB 2, Express 4, Angular 1, and Node.js 4.

About the Author

Simon Holmes has been a full-stack developer since the late 1990s and runs Full Stack Training Ltd.

Table of Contents

PART 1 SETTING THE BASELINEIntroducing full-stack development

Designing a MEAN stack architecturePART 2 BUILDING A NODE WEB APPLICATIONCreating and setting up a MEAN project

Building a static site with Node and Express

Building a data model with MongoDB and Mongoose

Writing a REST API: Exposing the MongoDB database to the application

Consuming a REST API: Using an API from inside ExpressPART 3 ADDING A DYNAMIC FRONT END WITH ANGULARAdding Angular components to an Express application

Building a single-page application with Angular: Foundations

Building an SPA with Angular: The next levelPART 4 MANAGING AUTHENTICATION AND USER SESSIONSAuthenticating users, managing sessions, and securing APIsAPPENDIXES

Installing the stack

Installing and preparing the supporting cast

Dealing with all of the views

Reintroducing JavaScript — available online only

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 440
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781617292033
  • Genres
  • programming, coding, textbooks, technical, software
  • Release date
  • 2015