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The Node Craftsman Book

You're reading from   The Node Craftsman Book An Advanced Node.js Tutorial

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787128149
Length 186 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Manuel Kiessling Manuel Kiessling
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Preface 1. Part 1: Node.js Basics in Detail 2. Working with NPM and Packages FREE CHAPTER
3. Test-driven Node.js Development
4. Object-oriented JavaScript 5. Synchronous and Asynchronous Operations Explained 6. Using and Creating Event Emitters 7. Optimizing Code Performance and Control Flow Management Using the Async Library 8. Node.js and MySQL 9. Node.js and MongoDB 10. Part 2: Building a Complete Web Application with Node.js and Angular 11. Milestone 1 – A First Passing Test Against the Server
12. Milestone 2 – The API Responds with Actual Database Content 13. Milestone 3 – Setting the Stage for a Continuous Delivery Workflow 14. Milestone 4 – Giving Users a Frontend 15. Milestone 5 – More Work on the Backend 16. Milestone 6 – Completing the Backend and Finalizing the Application

Applying CRUD operations with the low-level mongodb driver

Again, I won't cover installation of the server software. Please refer to the official installation instructions(h t t p s ://d o c s . m o n g o d b . c o m /m a n u a l /i n s t a l l a t i o n /) in order to get a MongoDB server up and running on your machine.

If you have Docker installed on your machine, the quickest way to get a MongoDB server up and running is this one-liner:

docker run --rm --name mongo -p 27017:27017 -d mongo:3.4

See h t t p s ://h u b . d o c k e r . c o m /_ /m o n g o / for more details.

Once this is done, create a new project folder called mongodb-test, and in there create an initial package.json as follows:

{ 
   "name": "mongodb-test", 
   "version": "0.0.1",
   "description": "", 
   "dependencies": { 
     "mongodb": "^2.2.22&quot...
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