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Mastering JavaScript Single Page Application Development

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Mastering JavaScript Single Page Application Development

Overview of this book

Single-page web applications—or SPAs, as they are commonly referred to—are quickly becoming the de facto standard for web app development. The fact that a major part of the app runs inside a single web page makes it very interesting and appealing. Also, the accelerated growth of browser capabilities is pushing us closer to the day when all apps will run entirely in the browser. This book will take your JavaScript development skills to the next level by teaching you to create a single-page application within a full-stack JavaScript environment. Using only JavaScript, you can go from being a front-end developer to a full-stack application developer with relative ease. You will learn to cross the boundary from front-end development to server-side development through the use of JavaScript on both ends. Use your existing knowledge of JavaScript by learning to manage a JSON document data store with MongoDB, writing a JavaScript powered REST API with Node.js and Express, and designing a front-end powered by AngularJS. This book will teach you to leverage the MEAN stack to do everything from document database design, routing REST web API requests, data-binding within views, and adding authentication and security to building a full-fledged, complex, single-page web application. In addition to building a full-stack JavaScript app, you will learn to test it with JavaScript-powered testing tools such as Mocha, Karma, and Jasmine. Finally, you will learn about deployment and scaling so that you can launch your own apps into the real world.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering JavaScript Single Page Application Development
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Organized with NPM, Bower, and Grunt
13
Testing with Mocha, Karma, and More

RESTful web services


As mentioned earlier, the REST architectural style is often used to perform , Read, Update and Delete (Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CURD)) operations in modern web single page applications, and these operations are known as web services. To employ RESTful web services for your own application, you will need not only a HTTP server, but a hosted database or database server in order to perform CRUD operations on the data.

Setting up a simple database with MongoDB

MongoDB is the database used for the MEAN stack. It is an open source, document-oriented database system and can easily be added to your stack via download or package manager, depending upon the operating system you are using.

Installing MongoDB

MongoDB can be installed on systems running Linux, Windows, and OS X. Direct downloads are available for these operating systems and, additionally, MongoDB can be installed using Homebrew on OS X. Homebrew is a popular CLI package manager for OS X. For instructions on...