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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

Introduction


The previous chapter introduced us to Node application security practices and different forms of authentication for Node applications. We learned, with the aid of exercises and activities, how to grant user access to a RESTful API and perform user authentication on Node by implementing token-based authentication using JWT. We also implemented passport middleware authentication using local and social application strategies.

In this chapter, we will go over an introduction to Angular declarables, which includes pipes and custom directives, and we'll also describe the concept of observables. You will learn about various forms of inbuilt pipes, such as Uppercase, AsyncPipe, percentPipe, and so on. You will create both custom pipes and directives and describe their usage in the DOM. We'll then describe observables and reactive extensions (RxJs), and how they are implemented in Angular applications.

Later in this chapter, you'll learn the details of Angular application bootstrapping...