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Node.js Blueprints

You're reading from   Node.js Blueprints Develop stunning web and desktop applications with the definitive Node.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783287338
Length 268 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Krasimir Stefanov Tsonev Krasimir Stefanov Tsonev
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Preface 1. Common Programming Paradigms FREE CHAPTER 2. Developing a Basic Site with Node.js and Express 3. Writing a Blog Application with Node.js and AngularJS 4. Developing a Chat with Socket.IO 5. Creating a To-do Application with Backbone.js 6. Using Node.js as a Command-line Tool 7. Showing a Social Feed with Ember.js 8. Developing Web App Workflow with Grunt and Gulp 9. Automate Your Testing with Node.js 10. Writing Flexible and Modular CSS 11. Writing a REST API 12. Developing Desktop Apps with Node.js Index

Developing the client side with Angular

Let's assume that there is some data in the database and we are ready to present it to the users. So far, we have only developed the model, which is the class that takes care of the access to the information. In the previous chapter of this book, we learned about Express. To simplify the process, we will use it again here. We need to first update the package.json file and include that in the framework, as follows:

"dependencies": {
  "express": "3.4.6",
  "jade": "0.35.0",
  "mongodb": "1.3.20",
  "mysql": "2.0.0"
}

We are also adding Jade, because we are going to use it as a template language. The writing of markup in plain HTML is not very efficient nowadays. By using the template engine, we can split the data and the HTML markup, which makes our application much better structured. Jade's syntax is kind of similar to HTML. We can write tags without...

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