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MEAN Cookbook

By : Nicholas McClay
Book Image

MEAN Cookbook

By: Nicholas McClay

Overview of this book

The MEAN Stack is a framework for web application development using JavaScript-based technologies; MongoDB, Express, Angular, and Node.js. If you want to expand your understanding of using JavaScript to produce a fully functional standalone web application, including the web server, user interface, and database, then this book can help guide you through that transition. This book begins by configuring the frontend of the MEAN stack web application using the Angular JavaScript framework. We then implement common user interface enhancements before moving on to configuring the server layer of our MEAN stack web application using Express for our backend APIs. You will learn to configure the database layer of your MEAN stack web application using MongoDB and the Mongoose framework, including modeling relationships between documents. You will explore advanced topics such as optimizing your web application using WebPack as well as the use of automated testing with the Mocha and Chai frameworks. By the end of the book, you should have acquired a level of proficiency that allows you to confidently build a full production-ready and scalable MEAN stack application.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Cross-browser and device testing with BrowserSync

A modern twist to testing in application development is the emergence of mobile devices as platforms for web applications. The challenge, of course, with mobile applications is in testing the application across a wide range of device form factors and browsers. One tool that can be very helpful in this endeavor is using a utility such as BrowserSync, which uses web sockets to synchronize interactions in your application across multiple browsers or devices.

This may seem abstract at first, but the idea is that it allows you to run your application from one central location, and have multiple devices follow your user interactions simultaneously. This can help reveal browser-vendor specific compatibility problems in your web application. This sort of multidevice testing itself isn't automatic; however, the setup with BrowserSync...