RESTful APIs and Full-Stack Implementation
In Chapter 1, Introduction to Angular and Its Concepts, I introduced you to the wider architecture in which web applications exist. The choices that are made in full-stack architecture can profoundly impact the success of your web application. You simply cannot afford to be ignorant of how the APIs you interact with are designed. In this chapter, we are going to cover how to implement a backend for your frontend using Node, Express, and Mongo. Combined with Angular, this stack of software is referred to as the MEAN stack.
My take on the MEAN stack is minimal MEAN, which prioritizes ease of use, happiness, and effectiveness, the main ingredients for a great developer experience (DX). To keep up with the theme, we'll implement the LemonMart server. This server will round out JWT auth from Chapter 8, Designing Authentication and Authorization. In addition, the server will support recipes that I am going to cover in Chapter...