Web Development with MongoDB and NodeJS

by Mithun Satheesh, Bruno Joseph D'Mello, Jason Krol

Build an interactive and full-featured web application from scratch using Node.js and MongoDB

About This Book Configure your development environment to use Node.js and MongoDB Use Node.js to connect to a MongoDB database and perform data manipulations A practical guide with clear instructions to design and develop a complete web application from start to finish Who This Book Is For

This book is designed for JavaScript developers of any skill level that 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 requirement for this book.

What You Will Learn Configure your development environment to use Node.js and MongoDB 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 Deploy the 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

Node.js and MongoDB are quickly becoming one of the most popular tech stacks for the web. Powered by Google's V8 engine, Node.js caters to easily building fast, scalable network applications while MongoDB is the perfect fit as a scalable, high-performance, open source NoSQL database solution. Using these two technologies together, web applications can be built quickly and easily and deployed to the cloud with very little difficulty.

The book will begin by introducing you to the groundwork needed to set up the development environment. Here, you will quickly run through the steps necessary to get the main application server up and running. Then you will see how to use Node.js to connect to a MongoDB database and perform data manipulations.

From here on, the book will take you through integration with third-party tools for interaction with web apps. It then moves on to show you how to use controllers and view models to generate reusable code that will reduce development time. Toward the end of the book, we will cover tests to properly execute the code and some popular frameworks for developing web applications.

By the end of the book, you will have a running web application developed with MongoDB and Node.js along with it's popular frameworks.

Style and approach

An easy guide to Node.js and MongoDB, which will quickly introduce you to the relevant concepts by taking you through the different steps involved in building a full-fledged web application.

300 pages, Paperback

Published October 30, 2015

Reviews

[Abdelmo'mn عبدالمؤمن · Rating 4 out of 5]

I followed the book tutorial project in creating an image uploading site.
I learned a lot about back-end development using Nodejs, MongoDB, Mongoose, and Handlebars templating engine. Front-end development using Bootstrap and jQuery.

The project that I created when I followed the tutorial:
https://github.com/bluemix/imgPloader.io

[Kaido · Rating 3 out of 5]

Because I was more interested on API development, I skipped some chapters about front end templates and controllers.
To summarize this book a bit then, it felt like author got tired at some point or lost the track. I mean that in chapter 7 we talked about persisting data using MongoDB then in chapter 8 "Creating RESTful APi" you hope that this knowledge is used, but no. He plays around with .txt file and that was all.

Also, this book was again one of those books, where author didn't want to set up validation for API endpoints. He briefly said that yes there are various ways and you can do it using Passport.js but validation isn't something trivial.

But as I am beginning with node.js then I got quite new and useful information. How to handle built-in validation in mongoose schema.

[Jeangougou · Rating 2 out of 5]

good introduction to the topic, examples are a bit shallow
to be a better introductory textbook it should highlight common rookie mistakes and how to avoid them.

[Rehmaanali]

Nice One