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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788395083
Length 330 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Bruno Joseph D'mello Bruno Joseph D'mello
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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

Building a complete web application


Beginning with this chapter, we are going to build a complete web application. The web application that we are going to build will be a clone of a popular social image sharing site, imgur.com. We'll call our site imgPloadr.io.

Designing the web application

The requirements of the site are as follows:

  • The home page will allow visitors to upload an image as well as browse the existing uploaded images, which will be sorted from newest to oldest.
  • Each uploaded image will be presented via its own page that shows its title, description, and a large image display. Visitors will be able to like the image and post comments.
  • A consistently shared sidebar will be visible on both pages and will showcase some general statistics about the site, the most popular images, and the most recent comments.

The site will use Bootstrap so that it has a nice professional design and is responsive on any device.

The following screenshot is from the home page of the completed site:

The following...

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