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Web Development with MongoDB and Node.js

You're reading from   Web Development with MongoDB and Node.js Build an interactive and full-featured web application from scratch using Node.js and MongoDB

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783987306
Length 294 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Welcome to JavaScript in the Full Stack 2. Getting Up and Running FREE CHAPTER 3. Node and MongoDB Basics 4. Writing an Express.js Server 5. Dynamic HTML 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. Single Page Applications with Popular Frontend Frameworks 12. Popular Node.js Web Frameworks Index

Refactoring and improvements


At this point, the application that we've been building is pretty much complete! Before we iterate anymore on the project and continue to build it out and make it ready for production, we should probably consider some refactoring and/or general improvements. Some areas that I would personally take a look at to refactor and/or rewrite to improve the application's performance and overall sanity are as follows:

  • I might rethink working directly with Models so much within the controllers and instead create a utility that I can wrap a lot of that noise and rely on more basic CRUD calls to my Models and only providing a callback to each. This is most visible in the image controller with like, comment, and remove.

  • Validation! There is literally no validation in the project that we wrote and that's mostly for brevity. In reality, we should have included validation on any input fields a user interfaces with. Validation should be provided both on the frontend via jQuery or...

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