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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

Introducing MongoDB


As stated on its official website, MongoDB is an open source document database with the scalability and flexibility that you want and the querying and indexing that you need.

MongoDB uses collections to persist a set of JSON documents, and the schema for the documents can change over time without affecting the other documents stored in the collection. The schema-less feature is great when you are working on applications that have different kind of roles and users. A user might utilize some fields, while other users might require some other fields but without the need to fill the unused fields with null values. Instead, fields that are not required are not persisted in the JSON document.

Installing MongoDB

You can learn how to install MongoDB on its official site at https://www.mongodb.com. We strongly recommend you to use Docker for your development environment instead of installing MongoDB on your local machine. So, let's see how you can install MongoDB using Docker containers...