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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 9: Integrating Vue.js with Node.js

In this chapter, we will learn how to integrate a Vue.js application into a Node.js server, using Express to structure the server code (according to the MVC model) and MongoDB to store the information.

For this, we will use the example of the list management application built in Chapter 5, Managing a List with Vue.js. But here, the server used will be a Node.js server, and the list items will be stored in the MongoDB database. This will allow them to be redisplayed later, if necessary.

In the end, we will obtain a client-server application entirely made in JavaScript (both on the client side and on the server side).

Here are the topics covered in this chapter:

  • Displaying application screens
  • Building the app with Express
  • MongoDB database structure
  • Installing the Axios library
  • Inserting a new element in the list
  • Displaying list elements
  • Modifying an element in the list
  • Removing an element from the...