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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)

Setting your language with Angular i18n

Although ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation of template strings can be useful, users may often wish to be able to manually decide the language that they would like to see, and have that served to them as a just-in-time (JIT) option. To support this, we will need to add providers to Angular to watch for a locale setting we can use to determine our user's language preference.

Let's configure our application to display whatever language the browser is defaulted to using. That way, content will automatically be displayed in any translation that matches the machine that they are using to access our application.

Getting ready

Before we can get started, to take advantage of just-in-time...