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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)

Internationalization with Angular i18n

Modern web applications can often support millions of users distributed across the globe. Even if the audience for your application is limited, the advantages you gain from building an application supporting multiple languages or localized date and time formatting can be very important for any international customers who use it. Luckily, Angular has an advanced toolkit for managing translations and localizing content in our application.

To translate text files in Angular, we will use the i18n attribute that comes built-in with Angular core. We will use this tool to mark strings in our application for translation and run a utility in Angular-CLI to extract them. Once we've extracted the strings, we can hand them off as a static file to be translated, and we will be able to import this file to display a localized language version of our...