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MEAN Web Development

You're reading from   MEAN Web Development Master real-time MEAN web application development and learn how to construct a MEAN application using a combination of MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783983285
Length 354 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Amos Q. Haviv Amos Q. Haviv
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Preface 1. Introduction to MEAN FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Node.js 3. Building an Express Web Application 4. Introduction to MongoDB 5. Introduction to Mongoose 6. Managing User Authentication Using Passport 7. Introduction to AngularJS 8. Creating a MEAN CRUD Module 9. Adding Real-time Functionality Using Socket.io 10. Testing MEAN Applications 11. Automating and Debugging MEAN Applications Index

Managing AngularJS authentication


Managing an AngularJS authentication is one of the most discussed issues of the AngularJS community. The problem is that while the server holds the information about the authenticated user, the AngularJS application is not aware of that information. One solution is to use the $http service and ask the server about the authentication status; however, this solution is flawed since all the AngularJS components will have to wait for the response to return causing inconsistencies and development overhead. A better solution would be to make the Express application render the user object directly in the EJS view and then use an AngularJS service to wrap that object.

Rendering the user object

To render the authenticated user object, you'll have to make several changes. Let's begin by changing the app/controllers/index.server.controller.js file, as follows:

exports.render = function(req, res) {
  res.render('index', {
    title: 'Hello World',
    user: JSON.stringify...
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