Web Development with MongoDB and Node.js by Satheesh, Mithun -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Web Development with MongoDB and Node.js

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Preface

What this book covers What you need for this book Who this book is for Conventions Reader feedback Customer support

Downloading the example code Errata Piracy Questions

1. Welcome to JavaScript in the Full Stack

Node.js changed JavaScript forever

Asynchronous callbacks Node Package Manager Networking and file IO Not just on the web Real-time web with Socket.io

The NoSQL movement

Node and MongoDB in the wild What to expect from this book

Summary

2. Getting Up and Running

Environment assumptions and requirements Installing Node.js

Mac OS X installation instructions Windows 7 or 8 installation instructions Linux installation instructions Confirming successful Node.js installation Bookmarking the online documentation

Installing the MongoDB server

Mac OS X installation instructions Windows 7 or 8 installation instructions Linux installation instructions Confirming successful MongoDB installation Bookmarking the online documentation

Writing your first app

The code Launch the sample app Check the actual database

Summary

3. Node and MongoDB Basics

A JavaScript Primer

Declaring variables Declaring functions Declaring objects Functions are objects Anonymous functions and callbacks Arrays Conditions and comparison operators Flow JSON

The basics of NodeJS

Event driven Asynchronous Require and modules The NodeJS core

Installing modules using npm The basics of MongoDB

The mongo shell Inserting data Querying Updating data Deleting data

Additional resources Summary

4. Writing an Express.js Server

What is Express.js? Building a complete web application Organizing the files Server.js – where it all begins

Booting up server.js

Configuration module

Handlebars view engine

Other template engines

Using and understanding middleware Introducing Connect Activating the configure module

Routers and controllers Custom middleware Migrating to Express v4.0.0

Using new middleware

server/configure.js server/routes.js

Summary

5. Dynamic HTML with Handlebars

Basic syntax for Handlebars Views Layouts Partial views Handlebars Helpers

Global helpers View-specific helpers

Rendering the views Summary

6. Controllers and View Models

Controllers View models Updating the home controller Updating the image controller

Displaying an image Uploading an image

Helpers for reusable code

The sidebar module The stats module The images module The comments module Testing the sidebar implementation

Iterating on the UI Summary

7. Persisting Data with MongoDB

Using MongoDB with Node

Connecting to MongoDB Inserting a document Retrieving a document

Introducing Mongoose

Schemas Models Built-in validation Static methods Virtual properties Connecting with Mongoose

Defining the schema and models

Models index file

Adding CRUD to the controllers

The home controller The image controller

Index – retrieving an image model Create – inserting an image model

Testing everything out so far

Like – updating an image model Comment – inserting a comment model Wrapping it up

Helpers

Introducing the async module The comments helper The helper sidebar Troubleshooting The stats helper The popular images helper

Iterating by adding an image removal capability

Adding a route Adding a controller handler Updating the Handlebars image page template Updating the jQuery

Refactoring and improvements Summary

8. Creating a RESTful API

What is an API? What is a RESTful API? Introducing Postman REST Client

Installation instructions A quick tour of Postman REST Client Using the JSONView Chrome extension

Creating a Basic API server

Creating sample JSON data

Responding to GET requests Receiving data – POST and PUT requests Removing data – DELETE Consuming external APIs from Node.js

Consuming an API endpoint using Request

Summary

9. Testing Your Code

Tools of the trade

Running tests with the Mocha framework Asserting tests with Chai.js

Installing Chai.js as a devDependency

Spies and stubs with Sinon.js Stubbing node modules with Proxyquire

Writing and running your first test

Writing a test helper

Testing the application

Testing the routes Testing the server Testing a model Testing a controller

Spy and stub everything! Summary

10. Deploying with Cloud-based Services

Cloud versus traditional hosting

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) versus Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Introduction to Git Deploying your application

Nodejitsu Heroku Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Create a MongoLab account and database Create and configure the AWS environment

Microsoft Azure Digital Ocean

Summary

11. Single Page Applications with Popular Frontend Frameworks

What is a Single Page Application? Why use a frontend framework?

The TodoMVC project Backbone.js Ember.js AngularJS

Frontend development tools

Automated build task managers Dependency management Modularity HTML template-rendering engines CSS transpiling

Testing and test-driven development

PhantomJS headless browser

Summary

12. Popular Node.js Web Frameworks

Meteor Sails hapi Koa Flatiron Summary

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