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Full-Stack Web Development with Vue.js and Node

By : Aneeta Sharma
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Full-Stack Web Development with Vue.js and Node

By: Aneeta Sharma

Overview of this book

Isomorphic JavaScript was the buzzword of the year 2017, allowing developers to utilize a single language throughout their web development stack and build cost-effective and scalable applications. MEVN is a one such modern web development stack consisting of web applications such as MongoDB, Express.js, Vue.js, and Node.js. Hands-On Full-Stack Web Development with Vue.js 2 and Node.js leverages the harmony of these technologies to help you create full-stack web applications. Starting with the core frameworks, this example-based guide explains all the key concepts of frameworks, how to set them up properly, and how to use popular modules to connect them together and make them work cohesively. You will learn all this with the help of real-world examples. In addition to this, you will be able to scaffold web application architecture, add an authentication layer, and develop the MVC structure to support the development of your application. You'll explore how to create data models for your applications and then write REST APIs by exposing your data model to your application. Solely orientated towards building a full, end-to-end application using the MEVN stack, this book will help you understand how your application development grows.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Benefits of writing tests

Writing test code when developing an application has a lot of benefits. Some of them are as follows:

  • Ensures code works as expected: It helps to ensure that each piece of functionality that we have written in our application works exactly as expected.
  • Improves the quality of code: It improves the quality of code. Since writing test code helps to pre-empt defects that may arise, before we write actual code, it improves the quality of the code.
  • Identifies bugs beforehand: It helps to identify bugs in the early stages. Since test code is written for every functionality, bugs and issues can be identified early.
  • Serves as documentation for new developers: Test code is like documentation. If we need new developers to start work on the same application, test code helps them to understand how the application works instead of going through all the application...