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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 5: Managing a List with Vue.js

After going through the basic and advanced concepts of Vue.js, with this chapter, let’s finish our study of the Vue.js library by building an application to manage a list of elements.

Why make this type of application? Quite simply because it allows you to perform fairly standard operations on the HTML elements of a page, such as inserting an element, modifying it, and deleting it.

These are the basic operations that you need to know how to perform, for example, to manage the elements in a database. In this chapter, we will learn how to perform these operations on the elements displayed on the screen, and in the next part (where we study Node.js and MongoDB), we will see how to simultaneously update a database.

Here are the topics covered in this chapter:

  • Splitting the application into components
  • Adding an element to the list
  • Removing an element from the list
  • Modifying an element in the list

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