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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

The admin section


Usually, e-commerce solutions come with an admin section, where you can manage your products and inventory. The admin section for our application is going to be built with Angular 2. Nothing fancy; we have already built a few apps with Angular, right?

We are not going to go through all the details but only the most important parts of the application. Don't worry! Full source code is available for the project.

The admin micro app

We made a few architectural changes right from the beginning. Each of our micro apps will serve a specific purpose. The admin micro app will host the administration application built using Angular 2.

In the preceding chapters, we used server-static to expose our public folder's content. This app will have its own public folder and will contain only the files related to our admin Angular application.

This micro app is going to be fairly simple. Create a file called apps/admin/index.js with the following content:

'use strict';

const path = require('path...