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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.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Introducing Express.js

Express.js is a minimalist server-side web framework for Node.js. It is built on top of Node.js to make it easy to manage the Node.js server. The most important strength of Express.js is that it makes the routing very, very easy. The robust API that it provides is very easy to configure. It is easy to receive requests from the frontend and easy to connect to the database. Express.js is also the most popular web framework for Node.js. It uses the Model View Controller (MVC) design pattern, which we will be discussing later on in this chapter.

Installing Express.js

We have already covered how to install node modules via npm. Similarly, we can install Express.js via NPM using this command:

$ npm install...