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Web Development with MongoDB and Node

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Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788395083

Length 330 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

MongoDB

Concepts

Server Side Web Development

Author (1):

Bruno Joseph D'mello

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Welcome to JavaScript in the Full Stack FREE CHAPTER

2. Getting Up and Running

3. Node and MongoDB Basics

4. Introducing Express

5. Templating 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. Popular Node.js Web Frameworks

12. Single Page Applications with Popular Frontend Frameworks

Testing and test-driven development

The development of a sophisticated frontend application is no different than any other software application. The code is going to be complicated and robust, and there's no reason not to write tests, as well as a practice test-driven development. The availability of testing frameworks and languages for the frontend is just as robust as for any other language. All of the tools and concepts we've used for testing the Node.js code that we've written in this book can be used directly on the frontend as well.

Some other tools to consider for testing your frontend JavaScript are:

Karma for running tests: http://karma-runner.github.io
Jasmine for writing tests: http://jasmine.github.io

PhantomJS headless browser

One thing I'd like to point out with testing frontend code is that typically, the test runners want to run in a browser window. This is great and makes perfect sense, but in the real world, automating your tests or quickly executing them with TDD can be a bit...

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Authors (3)

Joseph D'mello

Joseph D'mello

Bruno Joseph D'mello is proactively working at Truckx as a full stack developer. He is a JavaScript enthusiast and loves working with open source communities. He possesses more than 6 years' experience in web development. Bruno follows kaizen and enjoys the freedom of architecting new things at work. He is socially active via coaching in web technologies and participating in other research projects and meetups. When not engaged with technology, Bruno likes to spend quality time traveling with family and friends.

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Satheesh

Satheesh

Mithun Satheesh is an open source enthusiast and a web developer from India. He has over five years' web development experience and specializes in JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, and other frontend engineering technologies. He is the author of a couple of libraries on Node.js, which are available open-source via npm. One of these, called node-rules, is a forward-chaining rule engine implementation written initially to handle transaction risks on bookmyshow, one of his former employers. Node rules have a considerable user following both on npm and GitHub. Apart from this, he has also served as an individual contributor to many open source projects on GitHub. He is a regular on programming sites such as Stack Overflow and loves contributing to the open-source world. Apart from programming, he is also interested in experimenting with various cloud platform solutions. He has a number of applications listed in the developer spotlight of Platform-as-a-Service providers such as RedHat's OpenShift.

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Jason Krol

Jason Krol

Jason Krol is a passionate web developer with over 15 years of professional experience creating highly interactive web applications using the latest in both client and server technologies. Over the past few years, Jason has been focusing on developing Single-Page Applications using JavaScript in the full stack with Node.js, MongoDB, and Backbone.js. After co-owning and running a successful web development agency for a number of years, Jason recently joined AWeber Communications, an e-mail marketing service provider in the suburbs of Philadelphia.

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