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Full-Stack Web Development with Vue.js and Node

By : Aneeta Sharma

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Full-Stack Web Development with Vue.js and Node

By: Aneeta Sharma

Overview of this book

Isomorphic JavaScript was the buzzword of the year 2017, allowing developers to utilize a single language throughout their web development stack and build cost-effective and scalable applications. MEVN is a one such modern web development stack consisting of web applications such as MongoDB, Express.js, Vue.js, and Node.js. Hands-On Full-Stack Web Development with Vue.js 2 and Node.js leverages the harmony of these technologies to help you create full-stack web applications. Starting with the core frameworks, this example-based guide explains all the key concepts of frameworks, how to set them up properly, and how to use popular modules to connect them together and make them work cohesively. You will learn all this with the help of real-world examples. In addition to this, you will be able to scaffold web application architecture, add an authentication layer, and develop the MVC structure to support the development of your application. You'll explore how to create data models for your applications and then write REST APIs by exposing your data model to your application. Solely orientated towards building a full, end-to-end application using the MEVN stack, this book will help you understand how your application development grows.

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

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Free Chapter

Introducing MEVN

Introducing MEVN

Evolution of the technology stack in JavaScript

Introducing MEVN

Installing Node.js

Introducing NVM

Introducing npm

Installing MongoDB

Introducing Git

Introducing GitHub

Building an Express Application

Building an Express Application

Introduction to Node.js

Introducing Express.js

Introduction to MVC

Creating view files for the Express.js application

Introducing MongoDB

Introducing MongoDB

MongoDB queries

Introducing Mongoose

Adding validation with Mongoose

Introducing REST APIs

Introducing REST APIs

Introducing REST APIs

HTTP status codes

Introducing Postman

Building the Real Application

Building the Real Application

Introducing Vue.js

Installing Vue.js

Introducing vue-cli

Building a static application with Vue.js

Vue.js directives

Handling forms with Vue.js

Communicating with servers

Loading dynamic content on the homepage

Building Authentication with passport.js

Building Authentication with passport.js

Introduction to passport.js

passport.js strategies

Setting up user registration

Setting up the user login

Serving static files for Vue components

Passport's Local Strategy

Building OAuth Strategies with passport.js

Building OAuth Strategies with passport.js

Passport's Facebook Strategy

Configuring Passport's Facebook Strategy

Passport's Twitter Strategy

Configuring Passport's Twitter Strategy

Passport's Google strategy

Configuring Passport's Google strategy

Passport's LinkedIn strategy

Configuring Passport's LinkedIn strategy

Introducing Vuex

Introducing Vuex

Traditional multi-web page application

An introduction to SPAs

An introduction to Vuex

Core concepts of Vuex

Creating a simple Vuex application

Installing and using Vuex in a movie application

Testing an MEVN Application

Testing an MEVN Application

Benefits of writing tests

Introduction to unit tests

An introduction to end-to-end test

Technologies we will be using

Introducing Mocha

Introducing chai

Introducing sinon

Writing tests for Node.js server

Writing tests for Vue.js components

Writing e2e testing

Going Live

Continuous integration

Introduction to Travis CI

Introduction to Heroku

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Evolution of the technology stack in JavaScript

JavaScript is one of the most important programming languages today. Founded by Brendan Eich in 1995, it has done superbly well, not only in maintaining its status, but also in rising above all other programming languages.

The popularity of JavaScript is ever growing with no end in sight. Building web applications with JavaScript as the sole programming language has always been popular. And with this fast growing pace, the need for software engineers to have knowledge of JavaScript is only increasing. No matter what programming language you choose to excel at, JavaScript always crawls its way in to get involved with other programming languages as well, one way or the other.

There are a lot of technologies to choose from for the frontend and backend while developing an application. While this book uses Express.js for the backend, there are other frameworks as well, which you can learn if you want.

The other available backend frameworks are Meteor.js, Sails.js, Hapi.js, Mojito, Koa.js, and many others.

Similarly, for the frontend, the technologies include Vue.js, React, Angular, Backbone, and many more.

For databases, the options, other than MongoDB, are MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, and others.