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MERN Quick Start Guide

By : Eddy Wilson Iriarte Koroliova
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Book Image

MERN Quick Start Guide

3 (1)
By: Eddy Wilson Iriarte Koroliova

Overview of this book

The MERN stack is a collection of great tools—MongoDB, Express.js, React, and Node—that provide a strong base for a developer to build easily maintainable web applications. With each of them a JavaScript or JavaScript-based technology, having a shared programming language means it takes less time to develop web applications. This book focuses on providing key tasks that can help you get started, learn, understand, and build full-stack web applications. It walks you through the process of installing all the requirements and project setup to build client-side React web applications, managing synchronous and asynchronous data flows with Redux, and building real-time web applications with Socket.IO, RESTful APIs, and other concepts. This book gives you practical and clear hands-on experience so you can begin building a full-stack MERN web application. Quick Start Guides are focused, shorter titles that provide a faster paced introduction to a technology. They are for people who don't need all the detail at this point in their learning curve. The presentation has been streamlined to concentrate on the things you really need to know.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Routing in ExpressJS

Routing refers to how an application responds or acts when a resource is requested via an HTTP verb or HTTP method.

HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol and it's the basis of data communication for the World Wide Web (WWW). All documents and data in the WWW are identified by a Uniform Resource Locator (URL).

HTTP verbs or HTTP methods are a client-server model. Typically, a web browser serves as a client, and in our case ExpressJS is the framework that allows us to create a server capable of understanding these requests. Every request expects a response to be sent to the client to recognize the status of the resource that it is requesting.

Request methods can be:

  • Safe: An HTTP verb that performs read-only operations on the server. In other words, it does not alter the server state. For example: GET.
  • Idempotent: An HTTP verb that has the same effect...