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In this book, we take you on a fun, hands-on and pragmatic journey to learning MEAN stack development. You'll start building your first MEAN stack app within minutes. Every chapter is written in a bite-sized manner and straight to the point as I don’t want to waste your time (and most certainly mine) on the content you don't need. In the end, you will have the skills to create a Movies review app and deploy it to the Internet.

In the course of this book, we will cover:

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: MongoDB Overview
Chapter 3: Setting Up MongoDB Atlas Cloud Database
Chapter 4: Adding Sample Data
Chapter 5: Setting Up Our Node.js, Express Backend
Chapter 6: Creating Our Backend Server
Chapter 7: Creating the Movies Data Access Object
Chapter 8: Creating the Movies Controller
Chapter 9: Testing Our Backend API
Chapter 10: Leaving Movie Reviews
Chapter 11: Testing the Reviews API
Chapter 12: Route to Get a Single Movie and Its Ratings
Chapter 13: Introduction to Angular
Chapter 14: Create Navigation Header Bar
Chapter 15: Defining Our Routes
Chapter 16: Defining Models
Chapter 17: MovieDataService: Connecting to The Backend
Chapter 18: MoviesList Component
Chapter 19: Movie Component
Chapter 20: Listing Reviews
Chapter 21: Login Service
Chapter 22: Logging In
Chapter 23: Adding and Editing Reviews
Chapter 24: Deleting A Review
Chapter 25: Get Next Page’s Results – Search by Title
Chapter 26: Get Next Page’s Results – Search by Rating
Chapter 27: Deploying Backend on Heroku
Chapter 28: Hosting and Deploying Our Angular Frontend

The goal of this book is to teach you MEAN stack development in a manageable way without overwhelming you. We focus only on the essentials and cover the material in a hands-on practice manner for you to code along.

Requirements

No previous knowledge on Node.js or Angular development is required, but you should have basic programming knowledge. It will be a helpful advantage if you could read through my Node, Express book and Angular book first which will provide you will better insight and deeper knowledge into the various technologies. But even if you have not done so, you should still be able to follow along.

About the Author

Greg Lim is a technologist and author of several programming books. Greg has many years in teaching programming in tertiary institutions and he places special emphasis on learning by doing. Follow him at www.greglim.co

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