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MEAN Cookbook

By : Nicholas McClay
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MEAN Cookbook

By: Nicholas McClay

Overview of this book

The MEAN Stack is a framework for web application development using JavaScript-based technologies; MongoDB, Express, Angular, and Node.js. If you want to expand your understanding of using JavaScript to produce a fully functional standalone web application, including the web server, user interface, and database, then this book can help guide you through that transition. This book begins by configuring the frontend of the MEAN stack web application using the Angular JavaScript framework. We then implement common user interface enhancements before moving on to configuring the server layer of our MEAN stack web application using Express for our backend APIs. You will learn to configure the database layer of your MEAN stack web application using MongoDB and the Mongoose framework, including modeling relationships between documents. You will explore advanced topics such as optimizing your web application using WebPack as well as the use of automated testing with the Mocha and Chai frameworks. By the end of the book, you should have acquired a level of proficiency that allows you to confidently build a full production-ready and scalable MEAN stack application.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Working with Angular 4

This chapter is an in-depth guide to configuring the front-end application of our MEAN stack web application using the Angular 4 JavaScript framework. We will explain how to upgrade from an existing Angular 2 application to Angular 4, as well cover how to generate components and routes using Angular-CLI.

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Upgrading from Angular 2 to Angular 4 using NPM
  • Generating a new Angular project using Angular-CLI
  • Configuring Angular-CLI project settings
  • Working with generators in Angular-CLI
  • Ejecting Angular-CLI from your project
  • Generating new routes in Angular-CLI
  • Defining a home page in your Angular routes
  • Handling 404 errors in an Angular project
  • Creating nested routes in Angular
  • Creating sibling routes in Angular
  • Programmatic page redirection in Angular
  • Route preloading with Angular modules
  • Running tests in Angular-CLI