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- Herausgeber: Packt Publishing
- Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
- Sprache: Englisch
Unlock the power of the MEAN stack by creating attractive and real-world projects
About This Book
- Build six optimum end-to-end web applications using the M.E.A.N stack
- Follow the advanced Angular.js 2 application structure to build more scalable and maintainable apps
- Integrate an authorization system into your application and reuse existing code from projects
Who This Book Is For
If you are a web developer with a basic understanding of the MEAN stack, experience in developing applications with JavaScript, and basic experience with NoSQL databases, then this book is for you.
What You Will Learn
- Build modern, end-to-end web applications by employing the full stack web development solution of MEAN
- Learn NoSQL databases and separate the client logic from the server code
- Build a complex application from start to finish and work with monetary data in MongoDB
- Handle a multi-user type system and authorize your users to access control list
- Implement a chat application from scratch using Socket.IO
- Create distributed applications and use the power of server-side rendering in your applications
- Extend a project with a real-time bidding system using WebSockets
In Detail
The MEAN stack is a combination of the most popular web development frameworks available—MongoDB, Angular, Express, and Node.js used together to offer a powerful and comprehensive full stack web development solution. It is the modern day web dev alternative to the old LAMP stack. It works by allowing AngularJS to handle the front end, and selecting Mongo, Express, and Node to handle the back-end development, which makes increasing sense to forward-thinking web developers. The MEAN stack is great if you want to prototype complex web applications.
This book will enable you to build a better foundation for your AngularJS apps. Each chapter covers a complete, single, advanced end-to-end project. You'll learn how to build complex real-life applications with the MEAN stack and few more advanced projects. You will become familiar with WebSockets and build real-time web applications, as well as create auto-destructing entities. Later, we will combine server-side rendering techniques with a single page application approach. You'll build a fun project and see how to work with monetary data in Mongo. You will also find out how to a build real-time e-commerce application.
By the end of this book, you will be a lot more confident in developing real-time, complex web applications using the MEAN stack.
Style and approach
This book is filled with independent hands-on projects that teach you how to build real-life end-to-end complex web applications using the MEAN stack.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016
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MEAN Blueprints
MEAN Blueprints
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First published: May 2016
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Author
Robert Onodi
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About the Author
Robert Onodi has been developing software for close to a decade now. He started working on small applications in Flash, and later moved on to the LAMP stack. For most of his career, he has been working with JavaScript. Having knowledge of both server-side technologies and a passion for JavaScript, he rapidly adopted Node.js in his development stack.
Currently, he works at Evozon, where he shares his dedication for technology and JavaScript with others and develops modern applications using the MEAN stack. Besides his daily programming routine, he is also passionate about mentoring and training.
I rarely have the chance to thank everyone for all their good deeds towards me, probably because we are used to a life lived in fast forward. But this time, I would like to take my time and sincerely thank everyone for their help and support, especially for their trust and sacrifice, making me a better person.
A big thank you to everyone: my family, my loved ones, my friends, my colleagues, everybody at Packt, and all the great people working at Evozon for the support and help they give me each day. There is no greater source of inspiration and motivation in life than doing what you love, with the ones you love.
About the Reviewer
Dan Shreim has worked as a frontend web developer for over 15 years, specializing in AngularJS, user experience, and interface design. He has worked in conjunction with several award-winning agencies on projects for numerous household-name brands around the world crossing the entertainment, financial, security, and business sectors.
He is currently working as an interface developer for a world-leading cybersecurity company in Boulder, Colorado, USA.
He has worked in Toronto, Canada, designing loyalty platforms; and in London, UK, building prototypes for usability testing.
For more information on Dan, please visit his site at http://snapjay.com.
I'd like to thank Jasper for his compassion and support over the past few years.
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Preface
When learning new technologies or even improving our existing skill set, we are always interested in full-fledged applications: how the application is built from the concept phase to an actual running application, what pain points can different technologies solve, and what guidelines we need to follow to ease our development cycle.
Speaking of technologies, probably the most widespread of them all is JavaScript. I think the good and bad part of JavaScript is its popularity. For decades, we have had no technology that is so widely spread and ready to be integrated on different platforms.
Besides running JavaScript in the browser, which we are all so used to, for a few years we can easily run our JS code on the server using Node.js. It does not stop here, as we can start developing powerful IoT projects using only JavaScript.
For many years, we saw a movement of having a single technology that dominates every platform. I think the JavaScript stack, yes stack, at the moment is big game changer. Probably, you are thinking now that it's not that perfect or colorful; yes, I cannot agree more with you, but the evolution is so rapid—and new things are pushed every day, every minute—that we are on the edge of a technological revolution.
Wait! What? Yes, we can be a part of the revolution, we can be trend setters, we can shape the future of the Web, mobile, and IoT (maybe the universe? But of course). We can push the limits and prove that we can do great things, and we can progressively improve ourselves and the people around us.
The idea behind the book
The idea behind writing this book was to provide a guide and a higher perspective of applications built using the MEAN stack. As I interact with lots of people at the company Evozon, where I'm working, I see a big desire in people to touch and feel how applications are built using different technology stacks.
Especially in popular technologies such as JavaScript, Node.js, and MongoDB. But usually, finding full end-to-end example applications is hard. Don't get me wrong; the Internet is full of great stuff, brilliant people, and so many mind-blowing things, but it is also full of noise and uncertainty, and it's hard to know which path is right or wrong and what should be done in certain scenarios.
That's why we want to showcase different scenarios of building applications using the MEAN stack. Probably it's not the only way of doing things, but it should provide you with a starting point, or give you an insight into how certain parts of an app are built.
This is not a getting started book on Node.js and Angular 2. It will jump right into action and showcase six built-from-the-beginning applications, each with different use cases and solving a high-level problem.
A little bit of twist
Writing a book takes time, a lot of energy, and a little bit of fear. I've feared that I'll never finish this book. It was a long run, and the funniest part was that the first three chapters were written in an earlier version of AngularJS. Don't worry! Everything is shipped using Angular 2.
As you might have guessed, we had a long run and rewrote everything using the currently-in-beta-release Angular 2. Why? Because, as I told you before, we want to push our limits. We want to grow and master new ways of building modern applications.
I've tried to cover a variety of applications built using the MEAN stack, ranging from a simple contact manager and a real-time chat application to a full auction website.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Contact Manager, will cover the process of building an introductory application to save your contacts in MondoDB. The chapter will introduce you to TDD (short for Test-Driven Development) for your Node.js application. You will learn how to build an Angular 2 app that will access data from the Express API.
Chapter 2, Expense Tracker, is going to dive deep into working with monetary data in JavaScript and storing this data in MongoDB using the exact precision approach. Also, you are going to learn how to add a token for authentication of each request in the client application by extending the built-in HTTP service in Angular. Besides this, you'll see how to use the aggregation framework from MongoDB and display the result in your Angular application.
Chapter 3, Job Board, will focus on building a more consumer-level application that will enable users to define a custom profile with dynamic data. You will use reactive extensions in Angular to create different communication layers in your application. On the backend, we are going to build a RESTful API using Node.js and set up a boilerplate application from the previously built apps that we are going to use further in the book.
Chapter 4, Chat Application, will start reusing the boilerplate built in the previous chapter. But the most fun part will begin when we create a chat service layer that uses SocketIO. This will enable both the backend and the frontend Angular app to communicate in real time to send messages. The chat service will be built in such a way that it's easily extendable with new modules, besides instant messaging, such as when a user is online or goes offline.
Chapter 5, E-Commerce Application, is going to reflect the ease of storing unstructured data in MongoDB. We'll discuss in detail how to store your product catalog in a NoSQL database. Besides this, our initial architecture from the previous chapters is going to get a new form, and we'll experiment with micro-apps, each with its own responsibility. The micro-apps will use the core e-commerce module that encapsulates all the business logic. Also, this chapter will cover two client apps, one built with a totally different technology, and an admin application using Angular 2.
Chapter 6, Auction Application, is going to be more of an extension of the previous chapter; in other words, it will use the e-commerce API to fetch product information and authenticate users. This will push us not only to reuse existing code but rely on other services for faster prototyping when building products. Also, we are going to dive deeper into RxJs and see how we can build a real-time bidding system in our Angular auction application using SocketIO on the server side.
What you need for this book
You will require any modern web browser (such as Chrome's latest version or IE 10+), the Node.js platform installed on your machine, and version 3.2 or higher of MongoDB. Optionally, you can install any web server, such as Nginx, Apache, IIS, or lighttpd, to proxy requests to your Node.js application.
Who this book is for
If you are a web developer with a basic understanding of the MEAN stack, experience of developing applications with JavaScript, and basic experience with NoSQL databases, then this book is for you.
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