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MongoDB, Express, Angular, and Node.js Fundamentals

You're reading from   MongoDB, Express, Angular, and Node.js Fundamentals Become a MEAN master and rule the world of web applications

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Published in Mar 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789808735
Length 362 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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MongoDB, Express, Angular, and Node.js Fundamentals
Preface
1. Introduction to the MEAN Stack FREE CHAPTER 2. Developing RESTful APIs to Perform CRUD Operations 3. Beginning Frontend Development with Angular CLI 4. The MEAN Stack Security 5. Angular Declarables, Bootstrapping, and Modularity 6. Testing and Optimizing Angular Applications Appendix

Introduction


The MEAN stack is comprised of four technologies: MongoDB, Express.js, Angular.js, and Node.js, and is one of the best tools available for solving contemporary business challenges. This technology results in low maintenance costs, fewer resources being required, and entails less development time. Furthermore, it provides flexibility, high scalability, and several features that help businesses deliver high-performance solutions.

For developers or aspiring developers, learning MEAN is essential as it has become an indispensable tool for web applications. Businesses and developers are increasingly skipping Ruby, Python, and PHP, and choosing JavaScript for development. Also, JavaScript boasts the most active developer community.

Other stacks also exist, such as the Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP) stacks. However, the flexible simplicity of the MEAN stack is highly desirable. Also, factors such as Node being super-fast and the fact that MongoDB is a compelling database with which apps can be developed, tested, and hosted in the cloud with ease, add to the popularity of the MEAN stack. In comparison, LAMP is MySQL-based and has a confining structure, and thus is not as popular as the MEAN stack.

This chapter introduces the components, libraries, and framework that make up the MEAN stack architecture. We will also describe various contemporary commercial applications that can be built with the MEAN stack. Finally, we will build web servers with Node.js and implement various features that are provided by the backend runtime environment.

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