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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

Chapter 6. Storing Our Data in MongoDB

All the applications that you use on a daily basis store their information in databases. Databases allow you to provide the best experience to your users. Just imagine how hard it might be for your users without a database. For example, imagine you have bought a new iPhone and need to have all your contacts from your Instagram account added to your new phone. If databases did not exist, you would need to copy all of your contact information and add it locally to your new device. This may sound ridiculous, but this is how a world without databases might be.

It is important to learn how to create applications that are able to connect and store information into a database. So, now you will learn how to use MongoDB as your NoSQL database and how to integrate our backend with it using one of the most popular libraries called Mongoose.js.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • NoSQL databases
  • Introducing MongoDB
  • MongooseJS
  • Integrating our API with...