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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

Summary

This chapter and the example discussed in it shows that it is very easy to manage the elements of an HTML page interactively without leaving the page.

Here, we first decomposed the application into different components, then we assembled them, making them communicate through events and props attributes. We have learned, thanks to this complete example, how to manage a list of elements to carry out the main operations, which are the insertion, the modification, and the deletion of an element.

In the next few chapters, we will see how to use Node.js to connect our application to a MongoDB database and thus be able to store the elements of the list in a database. We will begin by learning how to work with node.js modules in the next chapter.