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Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Aurelia

By : Diego Argüelles Rojas, Erikson Murrugarra
Book Image

Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Aurelia

By: Diego Argüelles Rojas, Erikson Murrugarra

Overview of this book

Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Aurelia begins with a review of basic JavaScript concepts and the structure of an Aurelia application generated with the Aurelia-CLI tool. You will learn how to create interesting and intuitive application using the Aurelia-Materialize plugin, which implements the material design approach. Once you fully configure a FIFA World Cup 2018 app, you'll start creating the initial components through TDD practices and then develop backend services to process and store all the user data. This book lets you explore the NoSQL model and implement it using one of the most popular NoSQL databases, MongoDB, with some exciting libraries to make the experience effortless. You'll also be able to add some advanced behavior to your components, from managing the lifecycle properly to using dynamic binding, field validations, and the custom service layer. You will integrate your application with Google OAuth Service and learn best practices to secure your applications. Furthermore, you'll write UI Testing scripts to create high-quality Aurelia Apps and explore the most used tools to run end-to-end tests. In the concluding chapters, you'll be able to deploy your application to the Cloud and Docker containers. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to create rich applications using best practices and modern approaches.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Creating an API with Node.js


It's time to start having fun and code our RESTful API. Until now you have seen the theory behind APIs and that knowledge is very important to understand the following sections. So, you might be wondering, why Node.js? The short answer is because it is cool! Haha, just kidding. Node.js has evolved since its creation in 2009 by Ryan Dahl. Node.js is used for leading companies over the world, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Amazon, and more.

Node.js is not limited to API Development. In fact, you might create any kind of project from command-line tools to Internet of Things (IoT) applications. So, let's start learning about the advantages of Node.js and coding our API.

Node advantages

Node.js has a lot of advantages; we will explore the more important ones in the following subtopics.

Asynchronous

In most programming languages, I/O operations are performed synchronously. Synchronous execution will block the program flow until the blocking operation finishes its execution...