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MEAN Blueprints

By : Robert Onodi
Book Image

MEAN Blueprints

By: Robert Onodi

Overview of this book

The MEAN stack is a combination of the most popular web development frameworks available—MongoDB, Angular, Express, and Node.js used together to offer a powerful and comprehensive full stack web development solution. It is the modern day web dev alternative to the old LAMP stack. It works by allowing AngularJS to handle the front end, and selecting Mongo, Express, and Node to handle the back-end development, which makes increasing sense to forward-thinking web developers. The MEAN stack is great if you want to prototype complex web applications. This book will enable you to build a better foundation for your AngularJS apps. Each chapter covers a complete, single, advanced end-to-end project. You’ll learn how to build complex real-life applications with the MEAN stack and few more advanced projects. You will become familiar with WebSockets and build real-time web applications, as well as create auto-destructing entities. Later, we will combine server-side rendering techniques with a single page application approach. You’ll build a fun project and see how to work with monetary data in Mongo. You will also find out how to a build real-time e-commerce application. By the end of this book, you will be a lot more confident in developing real-time, complex web applications using the MEAN stack.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
MEAN Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The job backend module


This module will implement all of the backend logic related to jobs. We are going to define the necessary models and controllers. Only the most important parts of the module will be explained.

The job model

The job model will define a single entity from the Jobs collection and is going to handle the necessary validation when creating a new job. As for the company model, we are going to use a custom variable file for job industries and types. The two files will be located at jobboard/config/variables/industries.js and jobboard/config/variables/jobtypes.js, respectively. Both export a list of objects.

In order to implement the job model, we are going to follow these steps:

  1. Create the model file, called jobboard/app/models/job.js.

  2. Add the necessary dependencies:

    const mongoose = require('mongoose');
    const commonHelper = require('../helpers/common');
    const Industries = require('../../config/variables/industries');
    const Countries = require('../../config/variables/countries'...