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MERN Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   MERN Quick Start Guide Build web applications with MongoDB, Express.js, React, and Node

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787281080
Length 302 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Eddy Wilson Iriarte Koroliova Eddy Wilson Iriarte Koroliova
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Table of Contents (8) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to the MERN Stack FREE CHAPTER 2. Building a Web server with ExpressJS 3. Building a RESTful API 4. Real-Time Communication with Socket.IO and ExpressJS 5. Managing State with Redux 6. Building Web Applications with React 7. Other Books You May Enjoy

Building a RESTful API to manage users with ExpressJS and Mongoose

In this recipe, you will build a RESTful API that will allow the creation of new users, log in, display user information, and delete a user's profile. Furthermore, you will learn how to build a NodeJS REPL with a client API that you can use to interact with your server's RESTful API.

A REPL (Read-Eval-Print Loop) is like an interactive shell where you can execute commands one after another. For instance, the Node.js REPL can be opened by running this command in your terminal:

node -i 

Here, the -i flag stands for interactive. Now, you can execute the JavaScript code that gets evaluated piece by piece in a new context.

Getting ready

This recipe will...

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