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MongoDB, Express, Angular, and Node.js Fundamentals

By : Paul Oluyege
Book Image

MongoDB, Express, Angular, and Node.js Fundamentals

By: Paul Oluyege

Overview of this book

MongoDB, Express, Angular and Node.js Fundamentals is a practical guide to the tried-and-true production-ready MEAN stack, with tips and best practices. The book begins by demystifying the MEAN architecture. You’ll take a look at the features of the JavaScript libraries, technologies, and frameworks that make up a MEAN stack. With this book, you'll not only learn how to develop highly scalable, asynchronous, and event-driven APIs quickly with Express and Node.js, but you'll also be able put your full-stack skills to use by building two full-fledged MEAN applications from scratch. You’ll understand how to build a blogging application using the MEAN stack and get to grips with user authentication using MEAN. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll explore some old and new features of Angular, such as pipes, reactive forms, modules and optimizing apps, animations and unit testing, and much more. By the end of the book, you’ll get ready to take control of the MEAN stack and transform into a full-stack JavaScript developer, developing efficient web applications using Javascript technologies.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
MongoDB, Express, Angular, and Node.js Fundamentals
Preface

Getting Started with RESTful APIs


An API (Application Programming Interface) is a set of subroutines and protocols that communicate between two components, if possible. To best comprehend the functionality of an API, let's take a look at the following case study.

Consider you have a functioning e-commerce website, and at a point in time you discover the need to track where your customers are actually located so that this data can be used for analytics and marketing purposes. So, you decide to integrate the Google Geolocation API on your e-commerce website instead of creating your own geolocation program from scratch, which would definitely cost you more in terms of both money and time.

Now, how does the Google Geolocation API work?

Whenever a customer visits your website after the Geolocation API is implemented on it, a request is fired to get the location of the GPS-enabled device that was used to access the website. Then, a response is fed back as a result. This response contains a location...