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Web Development with MongoDB and Node.js

By : Jason Krol

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Web Development with MongoDB and Node.js

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By: Jason Krol

Overview of this book

This book is designed for developers of any skill level that want to get up and running using Node.js and MongoDB to build full featured web applications. A basic understanding of JavaScript and HTML is the only requirement for this book.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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Welcome to JavaScript in the Full Stack

Welcome to JavaScript in the Full Stack

A short introduction to Node.js

npm - the Node Package Manager

Sharing and reusing JavaScript

A simple server with Node.js

The NoSQL movement

A short introduction to MongoDB

Node.js and MongoDB in the wild

What to expect from this book

Summary

Getting Up and Running

Getting Up and Running

Installing Node.js

Installing MongoDB

Writing your first app

Adding the application code

Summary

Node and MongoDB Basics

Node and MongoDB Basics

A JavaScript primer

The basics of Node.js

Installing modules using npm

The basics of MongoDB

Additional resources

Summary

Introducing Express

Introducing Express

Web application frameworks

What is Express.js?

Building a complete web application

Middlewares

The configure module

Routers and controllers

Handlebars as View engines

Summary

Templating with Handlebars

Templating with Handlebars

Templating engines

Server-side and client-side templating

The basics of Handlebars

Views

Layouts

Partial views

Handlebars helpers

Rendering the views

Summary

Controllers and View Models

Controllers and View Models

Controllers

View models

Updating the home controller

Updating the image controller

Helpers for reusable code

Iterating on the UI

Summary

Persisting Data with MongoDB

Persisting Data with MongoDB

Using MongoDB with Node.js

Introducing Mongoose

Defining the schemas and models

Adding CRUD to the controllers

Iterating by adding an image removal capability

Refactoring and improvements

Summary

Creating a RESTful API

Creating a RESTful API

What is an API?

What is a RESTful API?

Introducing Postman REST Client

Creating a basic API server

Responding to GET requests

Receiving data - POST and PUT requests

Removing data - DELETE

Consuming external APIs from Node.js

Summary

Testing Your Code

Testing Your Code

The tools of the trade

Writing and running your first test

Testing the application

Spy and stub everything!

Automating everything

Summary

Deploying with Cloud-Based Services

Deploying with Cloud-Based Services

Cloud versus traditional hosting

An introduction to Git

Deploying your application

Summary

Popular Node.js Web Frameworks

Popular Node.js Web Frameworks

Koa

Meteor

Sails

Flatiron

total.js

LoopBack

Hapi

Summary

Single Page Applications with Popular Frontend Frameworks

Single Page Applications with Popular Frontend Frameworks

Why use a frontend framework?

What is a single page application?

Frontend development tools

Testing and test-driven development

Summary

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Consuming external APIs from Node.js

There will undoubtedly be a time when you want to consume an API directly from within your Node.js code. Perhaps, your own API endpoint needs to first fetch data from some other unrelated third-party API before sending a response. Whatever the reason, the act of sending a request to an external API endpoint and receiving a response can be done fairly easily using a popular and well-known npm module called Request. Request was written by Mikeal Rogers and is currently the third most popular (and most relied upon) npm module after async and underscore.

Request is basically a super simple HTTP client, so everything you've been doing with Postman REST Client so far is basically what Request can do, only the resulting data is available to you in your node code as well as the response status codes and/or errors, if any.

Consuming an API endpoint using Request

Let's do a neat trick and actually consume our own endpoint as if it was some third-party external API...

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