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MEAN Blueprints

By : Robert Onodi
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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

Exposing an API


Our core business logic needs to be accessed in some way, and I think a RESTful API would serve us in a good way. In order to get a better understanding and move through the whole app, we are only going to showcase a few parts from our API.

We are more interested in the whole app from an architectural point of view, instead of having detailed and fully integrated functionalities.

The Api class

For this micro app, we are going to group our files by type context. First, we are going to create our micro app class, apps/api/index.js, and add the following content:

'use strict';

const ProductsRoutes = require('./routes/products');
const ProductController = require('./controllers/product');

class Api {
  constructor(config, core, app) {
    let productController = new ProductController(core);
    let productRoutes = new ProductsRoutes(core, productController);

    this.config = config;
    this.core = core;
    this.app = app;
    this.root = app.get('root');
    this.rootUrl =...