Using NodeJS and the MEAN Stack

Prerequisites

Students planning to attend this course must have a thorough understanding of JavaScript equal to QAJAVSC. You will benefit greatly from understanding how web based architectures work.

Outline

Understanding the MEAN Stack

• What is NodeJS
• The open web
• Git and software development
• Bower, Grunt, Yeoman and Gulp
• Understanding applications architecture built using the MEAN stack

Introducing NodeJS

• Understanding the benefits of NodeJS
• Installing and exploring NodeJS
• Working with REPL

Introducing NPM

• Understanding NPM and packaged components
• Working with Require and core NodeJS objects
• Initialising applications and working package.json
• Building modules

Node Event and Concurrency

• Understanding callbacks and javascript events
• Building concurrency and asynchronous behaviour using callbacks
• Using NodeJS Event Emitters to build custom events
• Creating and working with promises

Interacting with the File system using NodeJS

• Working with the fs object
• Reading and writing files
• Building and interacting with Data Streams

Introduction to TypeScript

• What is TypeScript
• Basic Types
• Classes

Setting up the Developer Environment

• Getting ready to use Angular

Overview of Angular

• The building blocks of any Angular application
• An introduction to Observables

Angular Services

• What are Services & why do we need them
• How to create our own Services
• Using Angular’s HTTPClient service to make AJAX requests

Angular Routing

• Creating a single page UI
• Child Routes
• Named Outlets

Building Servers using NodeJS

• Using Node to build web servers
• Working with HTML Verbs
• Creating Routes using RegEx objects
• Building a RESTFul server

Putting the E in Mean - Introducing Express

• Using the express module to simplify routing
• Reading URL parameters
• Working with express to create promise driven code

Building Servers Using Express

• Scaffolding applications using the Express Generator
• Working with the app.js file
• Creating static routes
• Building dynamic routes
• Working with the Jade tempting engine

Introducing MongoDB

• Installing MongoDB
• Working with Mongod
• Using the Shell and common command
• Defining Mongo databases and data documents
• Querying MongoDB documents
• Working with users and security

Working with Mongoose

• Installing the Mongoose module
• Build code defined data structures with mongoose
• Developing schemas
• Communicating from express to the Mongo server
• Improving RESTful services
• Querying MongoDB using Mongoose