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Web Development with MongoDB and NodeJS Second edition

Web Development with MongoDB and NodeJS Second edition: Build an interactive and full-featured web application from scratch using Node.js and MongoDB , Second Edition

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Web Development with MongoDB and NodeJS Second edition

Chapter 2. Getting Up and Running

In this chapter, we will cover the necessary steps to set up your development environment. These will include the following:

  1. Installing Node.js on your machine
  2. Installing MongoDB on your machine
  3. Verifying whether everything is set up properly

Follow these sections carefully, as we need the development environment to be up and running before we jump into the chapters where we dive into actual coding. For the remainder of this book, it's going to be assumed that you are using either a Mac with OS X, Linux, or Windows 7 / Windows 8. You will also need super user and/or administrator privileges on the computer, as you will be installing the Node and MongoDB server. The code and examples after this chapter will all be OS agnostic and should work in any environment, assuming you have taken the steps I have outlined earlier to be prepared ahead of time.

You will need a proper text editor to write and edit the code. While any text editor you choose will...

Installing Node.js

The Node.js installer can be easily obtained by visiting the official Node website and accessing the downloads section. Once there, be sure to download the correct version depending on your OS and CPU (32 bit or 64 bit). As an alternative, you can also use OS-specific package managers to install this. Depending on the OS you are using, just jump into the specific subsection below to get more details on the steps to be followed.

Note

You can jump into the Node.js download sections by following the link http://nodejs.org/download.

Mac OS X

There is a universal installer available from the Node website specifically for OS X.

We need to follow these steps to install Node.js on a Mac:

  1. Visit the download page of the Node.js official website as mentioned earlier and click on the Mac OS X installer, which is independent of the processor type (32 or 64 bit).
  2. Once the download is complete, double-click on the .pkg file, which will launch the Node installer.
  3. Proceed through each step of...

Installing MongoDB

MongoDB can also be easily downloaded by visiting the official MongoDB website and accessing the downloads section from http://www.mongodb.org/downloads.

Once there, be sure to download the correct version depending on your OS and CPU (32 or 64 bit). For Windows users, you can opt to download the MSI installer file, which will make the installation much simpler.

Note

Depending on the version of MongoDB you downloaded, you will want to replace <version> in the following sections with the appropriate version number that matches your file.

Mac OS X installation instructions

If you are using the Homebrew package manager, MongoDB can be installed using the following two commands:

$ brew update
$ brew install mongoDB

The remainder of this chapter assumes you are not using Homebrew and need to install MongoDB manually. If you are installing MongoDB via Homebrew, you can proceed directly to the testing MongoDB installation section.

After completing the download, open and extract...

Writing your first app

Now that you have everything installed and confirmed that it's all working, you can write your first quick app that will use both Node and MongoDB. This will prove that your environment is good to go, and you're ready to get started. In addition, it will give you a brief taste of the world of Node and MongoDB development! Don't worry if a lot of the following is confusing or just doesn't make sense to you—it will all be made clear throughout the rest of the book!

To begin with, we need to create a folder for our application where this application's specific code will reside, as follows:

$ mkdir testapp
$ cd testapp

Creating the sample application

The testapp folder that we just created will be the root of our sample Node application. Even though it's not necessary, it's important and also a best practice that we should create the package.json file for our Node app, which will hold the necessary data regarding the application...

Adding the application code

Now, let's write the simple application code to test things out. This app is going to basically connect to our locally running MongoDB server, insert a few records as seed data, and then provide the output on whether or not the data was inserted properly into MongoDB.

You can download a Gist of the code via the URL: http://bit.ly/1JpT8QL.

Using your editor of choice, create a new file named app.js and save it to the application root, which is the testapp folder. Just copy the content of the above Gist on to the app.js file.

Understanding the code

Now, let's go through and explain what each section of the code is doing.

//require the mongoClient from mongodb module 
var MongoClient = require('mongodb').MongoClient;

The preceding line requires the MongoDB Node driver that we installed via npm. This is the required convention used in Node.js for bringing in external file dependencies to the current file in context. We will explain more about this...

Summary

In this chapter, we took time to make sure your development environment was properly configured with both the Node runtime environment as well as the MongoDB server. After making sure both were properly installed, we wrote a basic app that utilized both technologies. The app connected to a locally running MongoDB server, and inserted sample records.

Now that the tedious but necessary tasks of setup and installation are out of the way, we can move on to some fun and start learning!

In the next chapter, we will review a primer on the JavaScript language and understand the basics of Node. Then we will review the basic CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations with MongoDB using the Mongo shell.

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Node.js and MongoDB are quickly becoming one of the most popular tech stacks for the web. Powered by Google's V8 engine, Node.js caters to easily building fast, scalable network applications while MongoDB is the perfect fit as a scalable, high-performance, open source NoSQL database solution. Using these two technologies together, web applications can be built quickly and easily and deployed to the cloud with very little difficulty. The book will begin by introducing you to the groundwork needed to set up the development environment. Here, you will quickly run through the steps necessary to get the main application server up and running. Then you will see how to use Node.js to connect to a MongoDB database and perform data manipulations. From here on, the book will take you through integration with third-party tools for interaction with web apps. It then moves on to show you how to use controllers and view models to generate reusable code that will reduce development time. Toward the end of the book, we will cover tests to properly execute the code and some popular frameworks for developing web applications. By the end of the book, you will have a running web application developed with MongoDB and Node.js along with it's popular frameworks.

Who is this book for?

This book is designed for JavaScript developers of any skill level that want to get up and running using Node.js and MongoDB to build full-featured web applications. A basic understanding of JavaScript and HTML is the only requirement for this book.

What you will learn

  • Configure your development environment to use Node.js and MongoDB
  • Write and configure a web server using Node.js powered by the Express.js framework
  • Build dynamic HTML pages using the Handlebars template engine
  • Persist application data using MongoDB and Mongoose ODM
  • Test your code using automated testing tools such as the Mocha framework
  • Deploy the development environment to the cloud using services such as Heroku, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure
  • Explore SinglePage application frameworks to take your web applications to the next level

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Table of Contents

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1. Welcome to JavaScript in the Full Stack Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Getting Up and Running Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Node and MongoDB Basics Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Introducing Express Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Templating with Handlebars Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Controllers and View Models Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Persisting Data with MongoDB Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Creating a RESTful API Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
9. Testing Your Code Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
10. Deploying with Cloud-Based Services Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
11. Single-Page Applications with Popular Frontend Frameworks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
12. Popular Node.js Web Frameworks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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I am a JavaScript developer learning Node & Express. i found this book very helpful. The author explains each step throughout the entire process of building an app which is very helpful. The book covers most areas of Express and Node and some advance topics. For me it was a good buy.
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Clear and comprehensive coverage. A must read for anyone interested in using MongoDB with NodeJS!
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As a reviewer of this book, I can say that this book is complete reference for the people who want to cover all the stuffs about Node.js and related technologies. After basic start with Javascript basics, all the basic terms like Non Blocking I/O are covered in a simple way supported with examples. At the end of this book, you will be able to create web applications with Express.js and MongoDB, design RESTful services, write unit and integration test to build high quality applications. One of the difficult thing about using Node.js is choosing frameworks for creating web applications, but you are lucky. There is also fancy comparison section about commonly used frameworks in this book.
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Uno de los mejores libros de desarrollo web con nodeJs, mediante un proyecto completo se explican paso a paso todos los elementos de una aplicación web.
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Update 12/20/15: Note that while I stand by my original notes (below), the second half of chapter 4 cleared some things up. I've updated my rating from 2 to 3 stars. If the rest of the book continues without more typos and sections in the wrong order, I'd up my rating again to 4 stars. I also submitted several of the typos I noticed, and got a notice from the publisher that the authors had accepted those corrections. I don't know if those corrections will make it into THIS edition, or if they'll only affect a next edition the authors might publish. Hopefully the former! So, if you download this book and bog down some in chapter 4, just try pushing through and keep going, and things may clear up for you some.This book was frustrating to use. The book's approach seems to be to rush the reader through the creation of an app, and only partially explain things along the way. I imagine that they may explain some of the mysteries later in the textbook, and that they want to rush you along to give you the satisfaction of having created something that works.However, I've found a number of typos and errors. That's a problem, because the reader is likely new to Node/MongoDB, since it's an introductory textbook. When the book instructs you to run the app so far and something goes wrong because of one of those errors, it's hard for the reader to know how to solve the problem, because the book hasn't explained how everything in the app actually works.In Chapter 4, for example, the book helps us create a very simple 'server.js' file, and run that file. So far, so good. The book does a decent job of explaining that file so far, what's in it, and why. Then the next section adds a 'configure.js' module, and this is where the problems start. The book says that the app should still run smoothly after updating the 'server' file and adding the 'configure' file. But the 'configure' code listed in the book has two semi-obvious syntactical typos. Even after correcting those, the app doesn't run correctly, because the 'configure' module is requiring a third module, './routes', which the book hasn't given us instructions for creating yet.The book gives the impression of not having been very well reviewed/edited. I'm nearly ready to give up on it. Maybe it will get clearer after chapter 4, and the outside reading I'll need to do to understand any poorly-structured parts will probably be good for me anyway. But I really can't recommend this book.
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