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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)

Working with Angular component styles

Angular has a unique way of isolating styles on components in our application by scoping CSS selectors to dynamically generated component selectors. This approach gives us component-level style isolation that will prevent our component's styles from leaking across the rest of our application.

Let's add some component styles to our /src/app/app.component.ts and /src/app/posts/posts.component.ts components. We'll give our header some padding between it and the blog content below it. Adding negative space to our user interface like this will make our blog content easier to read. We will frame the blog content itself with a border and a silver background color.

How to do it...

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