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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 Stripe payment processor in Express

Finally, in these last two sections, let's shift gears and implement a cloud service solution that we almost certainly couldn't build ourselves: a payment gateway. To do this, we will use the popular payment processor Stripe to configure a simple payment route. For our blog application, we might use such a feature to allow user donations or potentially offer premium features to paid users. The most important part of our implementation is keeping our user's payment information secure and safe from exposure to outside parties.

Getting ready

Very similar to Cloudinary, our first step before getting started is to set up our Stripe account:

  1. You can create a test account...