Use the two popular web development stacks, Node.js and MongoDB, to build full-featured web applications
About This Book
- Learn the new ECMAScript along with Node 8 and MongoDB to make your application more effective.
- Get the up-to-date information required to launch your first application prototype using the latest versions of Node.js and MongoDB.
- A practical guide with clear instructions to designing and developing a complete web application from start to finish using trending frameworks such as angular4 and hapi
Who This Book Is For
The book is designed for JavaScript developers of any skill level who 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 prerequisite for this book.
What You Will Learn
- Work with Node.js building blocks
- 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
- Automate test cases using Gulp
- Reduce your web development time by integrating third-party tools for web interaction.
- Deploy a development environment to the cloud using services such as Heroku, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure
- Explore single-page application frameworks to take your web applications to the next level
In Detail
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Mithun SatheeshMithun 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.Bruno Joseph D'melloBruno Joseph D'mello works at Yapsody as a software engineer. He has possesses almost 5 years of experience in web application development, serving industries such as entertainment, social media, enterprise, and IT services. He is a JavaScript enthusiast and dedicatedly worked on it for the past 4 years. Apart from rare commits, he believes in contributing to open source by actually mentoring new technologies to beginners and involving them in open source communities. Bruno follows Kaizen and enjoys the freedom of architecting new things on the web. He also contributed his knowledge by authoring books such as Web Development in Node.js and Mongodb second edition, What You Need to Know About Node.js (Free ebook), and by being a reviewer.Jason KrolJason 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.
