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MongoDB, Express, Angular, and Node.js Fundamentals

By : Paul Oluyege
Book Image

MongoDB, Express, Angular, and Node.js Fundamentals

By: Paul Oluyege

Overview of this book

MongoDB, Express, Angular and Node.js Fundamentals is a practical guide to the tried-and-true production-ready MEAN stack, with tips and best practices. The book begins by demystifying the MEAN architecture. You’ll take a look at the features of the JavaScript libraries, technologies, and frameworks that make up a MEAN stack. With this book, you'll not only learn how to develop highly scalable, asynchronous, and event-driven APIs quickly with Express and Node.js, but you'll also be able put your full-stack skills to use by building two full-fledged MEAN applications from scratch. You’ll understand how to build a blogging application using the MEAN stack and get to grips with user authentication using MEAN. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll explore some old and new features of Angular, such as pipes, reactive forms, modules and optimizing apps, animations and unit testing, and much more. By the end of the book, you’ll get ready to take control of the MEAN stack and transform into a full-stack JavaScript developer, developing efficient web applications using Javascript technologies.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
MongoDB, Express, Angular, and Node.js Fundamentals
Preface

Optimizing Angular Applications


A lot of product developers/managers have an "if it works, don't fix it" mentality. They might not see reason why a software product should be optimized until a negative impact is obvious. But as a professional, it is your job to make sure that your product works efficiently even though optimization is complex. In this section, we shall be looking at the different means of improving Angular application development performance at load time (when the application is loading) and runtime (when the application is in use).

Measuring Load Time Performance

Before you begin optimization, you must run some performance analysis tests, for example, to check the load time, especially on different platforms. Testing is also essential because you cannot improve something if you don't measure it first. Google, for example, has been a top provider of optimization services such as Lighthouse and PageSpeed Insights, used to analyze and optimize your website manually or automatically...