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JavaScript from Frontend to Backend

By : Eric Sarrion
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JavaScript from Frontend to Backend

By: Eric Sarrion

Overview of this book

JavaScript, the most widely used programming language in the world, has numerous libraries and modules and a dizzying array of need-to-know topics. Picking a starting point can be difficult. Enter JavaScript from Frontend to Backend. This concise, practical guide will get you up to speed in next to no time. This book begins with the basics of variables and objects in JavaScript and then moves quickly on to building components on the client-side with Vue.js and a simple list management application. After that, the focus shifts to the server-side and Node.js, where you’ll examine the MVC model and explore the Express module. Once you've got to grips with the server-side and the client-side, the only thing that remains is the database. You’ll discover MongoDB and the Mongoose module. In the final chapter of this fast-paced guide, you'll combine all these pieces to integrate a Vue.js application into a Node.js server, using Express to structure the server code and MongoDB to store the information. By the end of this book, you will have the skills and confidence to successfully implement JavaScript concepts in your own projects and begin your career as a JavaScript developer.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
1
Part 1: JavaScript Syntax
4
Part 2: JavaScript on the Client-Side
8
Part 3: JavaScript on the Server-Side

Chapter 8: Using MongoDB with Node.js

MongoDB is the database traditionally associated with Node.js. It is a NoSQL type database, which means that SQL will not be used to access the information it contains.

MongoDB is a document-oriented database in which we store so-called documents; that is, a data structure of any type, such as information written on a sheet of paper (which is then equivalent to a document). Several sheets of paper, thus corresponding to several documents, form what is called a collection.

An example of a document is, for example, the first name, the last name, and the address of a customer. Aggregated information from multiple customers would be called a collection.

In this chapter, we’ll study how to use MongoDB in conjunction with Node.js in order to store, read, delete, or update information in the database.

Inserting, searching, updating, or deleting data are the main actions that can be performed in a database. Therefore, in this chapter...