Mean cookbook : the meanest set of Mean stack solutions around / Nicholas McClay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McClay, Nicholas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

MongoDB.

Express.js (Electronic resource).

AngularJS (Software framework).

Node.js.

JavaScript (Computer program language).

Web applications.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js cookbook

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

McClay Nicholas: Nicholas McClay is a software developer and designer with over a decade of JavaScript experience in both corporate and startup technology companies. He is an avid Node. js and JavaScript enthusiast and the founder of the greater Pittsburgh regions Node. js and Angular meetups. A self-described user experience developer, he balances using both design and development disciplines to solve problems. He is a graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, where he acquired a bachelor's of science degree in Game Art and Design, a passion that springboarded him into a career of interactive experience design. His previous work experience includes Autodesk, where he worked on next-generation integrated cloud services. His current role is as the UX Lead of Wombat Security Technologies, where he helps bridge the gap between the customers' user experience and the underlying technology and product decisions that deliver it. He enjoys video games, tinkering and creating things, and lives with his loving wife, son, and daughter in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Summary:

Over 50 recipes to create full-stack high-performance web applications using pure JavaScript and the MEAN stack. About This Book Architect a fully functional stand-alone web application, including the web server, database, and front-end web application Improve the performance and maintainability of your MEAN stack application with tips for configuration and optimization Highlights MEAN Stack best practices when working with your application Who This Book Is For If you are a JavaScript developer who wants to create high-performing, modern web applications with the MEAN stack, this is the book for you. Web developers familiar with some parts of the MEAN stack will find this a comprehensive guide to fleshing out the other technologies and skills they need to build all JavaScript web applications. Developers interested in transitioning from other web application stacks to an all-JavaScript environment will find a wealth of information about how to work in a MEAN stack environment. To get the most from this book, you should have a general understanding of web servers and web applications. You are expected to have a basic understanding of running JavaScript, both in a web browser and outside it, using Node.js and the NPM package manager. What You Will Learn Bootstrap a new MEAN stack web application using Node.js and Express Build a single-page application (SPA) with Angular and Angular-CLI Improve browser performance by optimizing your web application resources using Webpack Model complex JSON object relationships in MongoDB using Mongoose Debug all the layers of a MEAN stack application, including working with source maps Build Restful APIs using Express.js and JSON Web Token (JWT) for user authentication Use automated testing to improve the reliability and quality of your MEAN stack application In Detail 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 back...

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Table of Contents

Preface

chapter 1: Working with Angular 4

Introduction

Upgrading to Angular 4 using NPM

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

Taking advantage of optional dependencies

Peer dependency warnings after upgrade

Generating a new Angular project using Angular-CLI

There's more...

Tips for resolving port collision

Configuring Angular-CLI project settings

Working with generators in Angular-CLI

Ejecting Angular-CLI from your project

Generating new routes in Angular-CLI

How its works...

Defining a home page in your Angular routes

Handling 404 errors in an Angular project

Creating nesting routes in Angular

Creating sibling routes in Angular

Programmatic page redirection in Angular

Route preloading with Angular modules

Running tests in Angular-CLI

Chapter 2: Enhancing Your User Interface

Configuring Sass in Angular

Working with Angular component styles

Using Sass variables for style reusability

How to do it.

How it works...

Using Sass nesting for better style specificity

Using Sass partials for style organization

Working with Bootstrap in Sass

Customizing Bootstrap for Angular

Using Bootstrap Responsive layouts

Working with Bootstrap components in Angular

Working with Font-Awesome icons in Angular

Internationalization with Angular i18n

Setting your language with Angular i18n

How to Localize dates in Angular

Chapter 3: Working with Data

Working with actions and events in Angular

Working with form input and models in Angular

Getting Ready

Validating data with Angular form properties

Creating services for data in Angular

Using promises to create asynchronous services in Angular

Retrieving API data using HTTP services in Angular.

Getting ready

Querying API sources using HTTP services in Angular

Creating Concurrent API requests in Angular

Handling API errors and invalid responses in Angular

HTTP service optimization through client-side caching

Chapter 4: Using Express Web Server

Creating a new Express project with express-generator

Working with routes in Express

Serving an Angular web application with Express

Working with headers in Express

Working with cookies in Express

Creating Express middleware for routes

Logging traffic and activity with Morgan

Running your Express web server with Forever

Securing your Express web server

Chapter 5: REST APIs and Authentication

Building REST APIs with Express

Configuring JSON API in Express

There's more.

Creating a user authentication API in Express

Building a login page with Angular

Using JWT authentication with Express and Angular

Chapter 6: Cloud Service Integrations

Uploading large multi-part files with Express

Uploading images to Cloudinary from Express

Securing image downloads from Cloudinary

Resizing images and transformations with Cloudinary

Working with Stripe payment processor in Express

Accepting credit card payments in Angular with Stripe

Chapter 7: MongoDB and Mongoose

How to set up and create a MongoDB database

Mongo shell commands

Connecting to MongoDB through Mongoose

Working with data model in MongoDB and Mongoose

Mongoose Model API

Mongoose Document API

Querying for data using Mongoose query selectors

Mongoose Query API

Chapter 8: Relationships

Working with data validations and virtuals in Mongoose

SchemaTypes API.

There's more...

Creating sub-documents in Mongoose models

Using pre-save hooks and custom methods in Mongoose Models

Creating embedded documents in MongoDB with objectId

Creating relational documents in MongoDB with population

Document API

Chapter 9: Build Systems and Optimizations

Using ES6 and Typescript with Express.js and Node.js

Configuring WebPack for use in Node.js applications

Optimizing asset delivery with gzip compression in Express

Optimizing images for delivery with WebPack

Optimizing Font-Awesome with custom font generation

Chapter 10: Debugging

Debugging Node.js using the debug module

Debugging Node.js using node-inspector in Google Chrome

Debugging Node.js using JetBrain's WebStorm IDE

Production error tracking and debugging with Sentry.io

Chapter 11: Automated Testing

Creating unit tests for Node.js using the Mocha testing library

How it works.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 25, 2017).

OCLC:

1008968667