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Web Development with MongoDB and Node

You're reading from Web Development with MongoDB and Node Build fast web applications for handling any kind of data

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788395083

Length 330 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

MongoDB

Concepts

Server Side Web Development

Author (1):

Bruno Joseph D'mello

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Welcome to JavaScript in the Full Stack FREE CHAPTER

2. Getting Up and Running

3. Node and MongoDB Basics

4. Introducing Express

5. Templating with Handlebars

6. Controllers and View Models

7. Persisting Data with MongoDB

8. Creating a RESTful API

9. Testing Your Code

10. Deploying with Cloud-Based Services

11. Popular Node.js Web Frameworks

12. Single Page Applications with Popular Frontend Frameworks

Web application frameworks

Simply put, a web framework makes it easier to develop a web application. Consider the aspect of breaking down commonly used functionality into reusable modules. That is exactly what frameworks do. They come with a lot of reusable modules and enforce a standard structure for the code so that it will be easier for developers across the world to go through and understand the application.

Apart from all these advantages, web frameworks mostly get maintained by a lot of developers across the world. So, the effort of developers to incorporate the newer bug fixes and features of underlying languages is minimized to a point where we just need to upgrade the framework version which is being used by the application. So, the use of web frameworks for building web applications brings a lot of advantages to the development and maintenance phases of a web application.

The Express.js framework that we are going to use throughout this book is a Model-View-Controller (MVC) based...

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Authors (3)

Joseph D'mello

Joseph D'mello

Bruno Joseph D'mello is proactively working at Truckx as a full stack developer. He is a JavaScript enthusiast and loves working with open source communities. He possesses more than 6 years' experience in web development. Bruno follows kaizen and enjoys the freedom of architecting new things at work. He is socially active via coaching in web technologies and participating in other research projects and meetups. When not engaged with technology, Bruno likes to spend quality time traveling with family and friends.

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Satheesh

Satheesh

Mithun Satheesh is an open source enthusiast and a web developer from India. He has over five years' web development experience and specializes in JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, and other frontend engineering technologies. He is the author of a couple of libraries on Node.js, which are available open-source via npm. One of these, called node-rules, is a forward-chaining rule engine implementation written initially to handle transaction risks on bookmyshow, one of his former employers. Node rules have a considerable user following both on npm and GitHub. Apart from this, he has also served as an individual contributor to many open source projects on GitHub. He is a regular on programming sites such as Stack Overflow and loves contributing to the open-source world. Apart from programming, he is also interested in experimenting with various cloud platform solutions. He has a number of applications listed in the developer spotlight of Platform-as-a-Service providers such as RedHat's OpenShift.

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Jason Krol

Jason Krol

Jason Krol is a passionate web developer with over 15 years of professional experience creating highly interactive web applications using the latest in both client and server technologies. Over the past few years, Jason has been focusing on developing Single-Page Applications using JavaScript in the full stack with Node.js, MongoDB, and Backbone.js. After co-owning and running a successful web development agency for a number of years, Jason recently joined AWeber Communications, an e-mail marketing service provider in the suburbs of Philadelphia.

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