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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

Summary


The book began by describing the MongoDB, Express, Angular, and Node (MEAN) architecture. The MEAN technology components were described in terms of their features/advantages, limitations, and scenarios in which they are best used. We ran the Node server and implemented various Node features such as callbacks, event loops, event emitters, streams, buffers, and the filesystem in the first chapter.

In the second chapter, we introduced RESTful APIs and their designs concepts, performed operations on MongoDB Atlas, and implemented some features of the Express framework on Node applications. The chapter activities aimed at implementing Node, MongoDB Atlas, and Express together to develop a RESTful API that performed CRUD operations.

The third chapter introduced us to frontend development using the Angular CLI. We implemented various features such as directives, components, modules such as templates and reactive forms, and routers. The fourth chapter introduced us to Node application security...