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Full-Stack Web Development with Vue.js and Node

You're reading from   Full-Stack Web Development with Vue.js and Node Build scalable and powerful web apps with modern web stack: MongoDB, Vue, Node.js, and Express

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788831147
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Aneeta Sharma Aneeta Sharma
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Preface 1. Introducing MEVN FREE CHAPTER 2. Building an Express Application 3. Introducing MongoDB 4. Introducing REST APIs 5. Building the Real Application 6. Building Authentication with passport.js 7. Building OAuth Strategies with passport.js 8. Introducing Vuex 9. Testing an MEVN Application 10. Going Live 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introducing MongoDB

The name MongoDB comes from the phrase huMONGOus data, meaning that it can handle a lot of data. MongoDB is a document-oriented database architecture. It enables us to develop faster and scale better. In relational database designs, we store data by creating tables and rows, but with MongoDB, we can model our data as JSON documents, which is much simpler compared to those relational databases. If we are agile and our requirements keep changing very often, and if we need to do continuous deployment, then MongoDB is our choice. Being a document-based data model, MongoDB is very flexible as well.

The biggest advantage of using MongoDB is that the data is unstructured. We can customize our data in any format we like. In a relational database management system (RDBMS), we have to define exactly the number of fields a table can have, but with MongoDB, each document...

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