About the Technology

Traditional web dev stacks use a different programming language in every layer, resulting in a complex mashup of code and frameworks. Together, the MongoDB database, the Express and AngularJS frameworks, and Node.js constitute the MEAN stack—a powerful platform that uses only one language, top to bottom: JavaScript. Developers and businesses find it irresistible because it’s scalable and cost-effective. End users find it irresistible because the apps created with it are fast and responsive. It’s a win-win-win!

About the Book

Getting MEAN with Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node teaches you how to develop web applications The usage of the MEAN stack. First, You can create the skeleton of a static site in Express and Node, and then push it up to a live web server. Next, You can add a MongoDB database and build an API before The usage of Angular to deal with data manipulation and application logic in the browser. After all You can add an authentication system to the application, The usage of the whole stack. When you finish, You can have all of the skills you wish to have to build a dynamic data-driven web application.

What’s Inside

• Full-stack development The usage of JavaScript
• Responsive web techniques
• Everything you wish to have to get started with MEAN
• Best practices for efficiency and reusability

About the Reader

Readers must have some web development experience. This book is based on MongoDB 2, Express 4, Angular 1, and Node.js 4.

About the Author

Simon Holmes has been a full-stack developer since the late 1990s and runs Full Stack Training Ltd.

Table of Contents

PART 1 SETTING THE BASELINE

1. Introducing full-stack development
2. Designing a MEAN stack architecture

PART 2 BUILDING A NODE WEB APPLICATION

3. Creating and setting up a MEAN project
4. Building a static site with Node and Express
5. Building a data model with MongoDB and Mongoose
6. Writing a REST API: Exposing the MongoDB database to the application
7. Consuming a REST API: The usage of an API from inside Express

PART 3 ADDING A DYNAMIC FRONT END WITH ANGULAR

8. Adding Angular components to an Express application
9. Building a single-page application with Angular: Foundations
10. Building an SPA with Angular: The next level

PART 4 MANAGING AUTHENTICATION AND USER SESSIONS

11. Authenticating users, managing sessions, and securing APIs

APPENDIXES

1. Installing the stack
2. Installing and preparing the supporting cast
3. Dealing with all the views
4. Reintroducing JavaScript – to be had online only