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AngularJS Web Application Development Blueprints

You're reading from   AngularJS Web Application Development Blueprints A practical guide to developing powerful web applications with AngularJS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783285617
Length 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Vinci J Rufus Vinci J Rufus
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Preface 1. Introduction to AngularJS and the Single Page Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up Your Rig 3. Rapid Prototyping with AngularJS 4. Using REST Web Services in Your AngularJS App 5. Facebook Friends' Birthday Reminder App 6. Building an Expense Manager Mobile App 7. Building a CMS on the MEAN Stack 8. Scalable Architecture for Deployments on AWS 9. Building an E-Commerce Store A. AngularJS Resources Index

Why the MEAN stack?


An obvious question would be why the choice of MongoDB, Node.js, and Express, when we could use any other stack.

To be politically correct, we could use any other technology, such as Java, PHP, ASP.NET, or even Ruby on Rails, to build the backend part of this project, and AngularJS would work just as fine.

The main reason to choose this stack is that all the tools within this stack use a single language, which is JavaScript. Other than this, each of the following tools offers certain unique benefits that make it equally suitable to build this application:

  • Node.js: This is the most important tool in this stack. It allows us to build event-driven, nonblocking I/O applications using JavaScript. Thanks to Node.js, we are now able to write server-side applications in JavaScript.

  • ExpressJS: This is a lightweight web application framework that allows us to build a server-side application on Node.js using the Model View Controller (MVC) design pattern.

  • MongoDB: This is a very...

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