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MEAN Web Development

By : Amos Q. Haviv
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MEAN Web Development

By: Amos Q. Haviv

Overview of this book

The MEAN stack is a collection of the most popular modern tools for web development; it comprises MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js. Starting with MEAN core frameworks, this project-based guide will explain the key concepts of each framework, how to set them up properly, and how to use popular modules to connect it all together. By following the real-world examples shown in this tutorial, you will scaffold your MEAN application architecture, add an authentication layer, and develop an MVC structure to support your project development. Finally, you will walk through the different tools and frameworks that will help expedite your daily development cycles. Watch how your application development grows by learning from the only guide that is solely orientated towards building a full, end-to-end, real-time application using the MEAN stack!
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
MEAN Web Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introducing the Grunt task runner


MEAN application development, and any other software development in general, often involves redundant repetition. Daily operations such as running, testing, debugging, and preparing your application for the production environment becomes monotonous and should be abstracted by some sort of an automation layer. You may be familiar with Ant or Rake, but in JavaScript projects, the automation of repetitive tasks can be easily done using the Grunt task runner. Grunt is a Node.js command-line tool that uses custom and third-party tasks to automate a project's build process. This means you can either write your own automated tasks, or better yet, take advantage of the growing Grunt eco-system and automate common operations using third-party Grunt tasks. In this section, you'll learn how to install, configure, and use Grunt. The examples in this chapter will continue directly from those in previous chapters, so copy the final example from Chapter 10, Testing MEAN...