Your first app: node.js
Your first app: node.js
A tutorial for real-world application development using Node.js, AngularJS, Express and MongoDB
About the Book
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Table of Contents
- Preface
-
Introduction
- Who this book is for
- About the author
- Code
- Examples
- Terminal
- Feedback
-
Basics
- JavaScript Basics
- Node.js Basics
- Non-blocking I/O
- Summary
-
Defining the Application
- Roughin’ it
- The ‘What’
- The ‘How’
- The ‘When’
- Summary
-
Development Considerations
- Framework Choices
- Source control
- Unit Testing
- End-to-end testing
- Build Process
- Code Coverage
- Look and Feel
- Authentication
- Coding Standards
- Data Storage
- eab: Leveraging open-source
- Summary
-
Application Requirements
- JavaScript, inside and out
- express.js -> socket.io -> angular.js
- Build: grunt.js
- Database backend: mongodb
- Authentication: passport.js
- Testing
- Coding Standards
- Compatible licensing
- Summary
-
Defining the process
- Git
- Testing
- Summary
-
Getting Started
- Project Structure
- Initial Tweaks
- The data
- Summary
-
User Registration
- UI Skeleton
- ejs View Engine
- Setting up auth
- User Profile
- Testing User Registration
- Summary
-
API Design
- Why API Design?
- The REST API Problem
- Our API
- API Operations (Routes)
- Summary
-
API Implementation
- Users
- Cohorts
- Messages
- Images
- Summary
-
Front-end (AngularJS)
- Server-side render index.html
- Redoing login.html
- Cleanup
- Version Check (upgrade)
- Initial Data
- Interacting with the API
- Displaying authenticated content
- Displaying a user pager
- Cohorts list and maintenance
- Adding Cohorts via Drag and Drop
- Messages
- Summary
-
Deployment
- HTTPS
- Getting code ready
- Hosting
- Domain Name
- Serving with Nginx
- Keeping node.js running
- Summary
-
Next Steps
- Logging
- Monitoring
- Automated UI Testing
- Build Server
- Recommended Reading
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Appendix A
- A Basic Git Introduction
- git: architecture
- git: staging and committing
- git: branching
- git: remotes
- Summary
- Notes
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