Write Modern Web Apps with the MEAN Stack
Mongo, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js
1st Edition
Published on 24. September 2014
256 pages
978-0-13-396237-6 (ISBN)
Description
Traditionally, web applications have been architected so that the back-end houses all the front-end code. This has resulted in heavy projects that are difficult to manage and scale. This book will explain a new way to write web applications by treating the front-end as if it were a third-party (such as a mobile client). This book, written by a practicing MEAN developer, will take a holistic approach to using the MEAN JavaScript platform for creating modern web applications and lay out how to use the MEAN (Mongo, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js) set of tools to create a web application, from installation and setup of the tools to debugging and deploying your app. After an introduction to how web development is changing and the advantages of using the MEAN stack, the author jumps into an introduction to each tool and then dives into using the complete JavaScript-based application stack to build, test, and deploy apps.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkeley
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-0-13-396237-6 (9780133962376)
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Person
Jeff Dickey is a full stack web developer with extensive startup experience in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Jeff has started projects, maintained large enterprise systems, and lead development teams. He brings a developer's perspective and enjoys pragmatism and action while avoiding red tape.
Education is the most important quality in Jeff's life, both and a teacher and a student. He surrounds himself with those smarter than myself to learn as much as possible. His experience teaching has greatly helped his communication skills with less technical people and is incredibly rewarding as well.
Outside of work, Jeff is a teacher at General Assembly Los Angeles and Lead Organizer for the LA Code for America brigade. Through teaching and civic hacking, he hopes to help others solve problems both in business and civic hacking.
Education is the most important quality in Jeff's life, both and a teacher and a student. He surrounds himself with those smarter than myself to learn as much as possible. His experience teaching has greatly helped his communication skills with less technical people and is incredibly rewarding as well.
Outside of work, Jeff is a teacher at General Assembly Los Angeles and Lead Organizer for the LA Code for America brigade. Through teaching and civic hacking, he hopes to help others solve problems both in business and civic hacking.
Content
Introduction
Audience
Book techniques
How architecture is changing
Problems with traditional 3-tier web applications
MEAN stack advantages
Moving away from 3-tier applications
Multiple databases for different use-cases
Mobile clients mean everything needs an API
High-level advantages of MEAN stack
Companies using similar stacks
Why JavaScript/JSON works well for web applications
Not fast
Web is heavy IO
How JS callbacks solve IO bottleneck problems
Introduction to each tool
AngularJS
Node.js/Express
MongoDB
To do list project
Build app in angular without persistence
Using curl and "error-driven development" to build static Node.js app
Connect node app to Mongo
Build Angular service to connect to Node
Allow two users at the same time via websockets
Authentication
Ideas
Redis: often used with this sort of stack
Deploying: digital ocean
Testing
Security
Audience
Book techniques
How architecture is changing
Problems with traditional 3-tier web applications
MEAN stack advantages
Moving away from 3-tier applications
Multiple databases for different use-cases
Mobile clients mean everything needs an API
High-level advantages of MEAN stack
Companies using similar stacks
Why JavaScript/JSON works well for web applications
Not fast
Web is heavy IO
How JS callbacks solve IO bottleneck problems
Introduction to each tool
AngularJS
Node.js/Express
MongoDB
To do list project
Build app in angular without persistence
Using curl and "error-driven development" to build static Node.js app
Connect node app to Mongo
Build Angular service to connect to Node
Allow two users at the same time via websockets
Authentication
Ideas
Redis: often used with this sort of stack
Deploying: digital ocean
Testing
Security
