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Getting MEAN with Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node, Second MEAP Edition Manning Early Access Program Getting MEAN with Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node Second Edition Version 9 Copyright 2019 Manning Publications For more information on this and other Manning titles go to www.manning.com ©Manning Publications Co. We welcome reader comments about anything in the manuscript - other than typos and other simple mistakes. These will be cleaned up during production of the book by copyeditors and proofreaders. https://forums.manning.com/forums/getting-mean-with-mongo-express-angular-and-node-second-edition welcome Thank you for purchasing the MEAP for Getting MEAN Second Edition. I’m excited to see the book reach this stage and look forward to its continued development and eventual release. This is an intermediate book, designed for anyone with web-development experience— particularly with some exposure to JavaScript—who wants to learn how to be a full-stack developer or see how the whole MEAN stack fits together. I’ve strived to make the content both approachable and meaningful, and to explain not just how to do things with the MEAN stack but also why things are done the way they are. I feel it is important to know about each part of the MEAN stack before diving in to building an application. To start, chapter 1 is an overview of what full stack development means, and the roles MongoDB, Express, Angular, and Node.js each play generally in forming the MEAN stack. Chapter 2 takes a closer look at a few of the ways you can use the MEAN stack (there isn’t just one “right” way to do it!). We’ll explore a couple of scenarios and show how you can combine the components of the MEAN stack in different ways to meet the requirements of your project. And in chapter 3, we’ll get started building our example app, Loc8r. Loc8r will be a responsive web application, with an aim of listing places nearby that based on current location. Chapter 3 will see us setting up a base project using Node and Express, and also pushing it to a live environment for testing. Looking ahead, the book will continue to cover building a responsive, data-driven web application using Node.js, Express, and MongoDB, with a cast of supporting technologies. Part 3 will complete the MEAN stack by adding an Angular single page application as the front-end to the application. As you’re reading, I hope you’ll take advantage of the Author Online forum. I’ll be reading your comments and responding, and your feedback is helpful in the development process. —Simon Holmes and Clive Harber ©Manning Publications Co. We welcome reader comments about anything in the manuscript - other than typos and other simple mistakes. These will be cleaned up during production of the book by copyeditors and proofreaders. https://forums.manning.com/forums/getting-mean-with-mongo-express-angular-and-node-second-edition brief contents PART 1: SETTING THE BASELINE 1 Introducing full-stack development 2 Designing a MEAN stack architecture PART 2: BUILDING A NODE WEB APPLICATION 3 Creating and setting up a MEAN project 4 Building a static site with Node and Express 5 Building a data model with MongoDB and Mongoose 6 Writing a REST API: Exposing the MongoDB database to the application 7 Consuming a REST API: Using an API from inside Express PART 3: ADDING A DYNAMIC FRONT END WITH ANGULAR 8 Creating an Angular application with TypeScript 9 Building a Single Page Application with Angular: Foundations 10 Building a Single Page Application with Angular: The next level PART 4: MANAGING AUTHENTICATION AND USER SESSIONS 11 Authenticating users, managing sessions and securing APIs 12 Using an authentication API in Angular applications APPENDIXES: A Installing the stack B Installing and preparing the supporting cast C Dealing with all of the views D Reintroducing JavaScript ©Manning Publications Co. We welcome reader comments about anything in the manuscript - other than typos and other simple mistakes. These will be cleaned up during production of the book by copyeditors and proofreaders. https://forums.manning.com/forums/getting-mean-with-mongo-express-angular-and-node-second-edition 1 1 Introducing full-stack development This chapter covers • The benefits of full-stack development • An overview of the MEAN stack components • What makes the MEAN stack so compelling • A preview of the application we’ll build throughout this book If you’re like me then you’re probably impatient to dive into some code and get on with building something. But let’s take a moment first to clarify what is meant by full-stack development, and look at the component parts of the stack to make sure you understand each. When I talk about full-stack development, I’m really talking about developing all parts of a website or application. The full stack starts with the database and web server in the back end, contains application logic and control in the middle, and goes all the way through to the user interface at the front end. The MEAN stack is a pure JavaScript stack comprised of four main technologies, with a cast of supporting technologies: • MongoDBthe database • Expressthe web framework • Angularthe front-end framework • Node.jsthe web server MongoDB has been around since 2007, and is actively maintained by MongoDB Inc., previously known as 10gen. Express was first released in 2009 by T. J. Holowaychuk and has since become the most popular framework for Node.js. It’s open source, with more than 100 contributors, and is actively developed and supported. ©Manning Publications Co. We welcome reader comments about anything in the manuscript - other than typos and other simple mistakes. These will be cleaned up during production of the book by copyeditors and proofreaders. https://forums.manning.com/forums/getting-mean-with-mongo-express-angular-and-node-second-edition 2 Angular is open source and backed by Google. The first version of Angular – known as AngularJS or Angular 1 - has been around since 2010. Angular 2 – now known simply as Angular – was officially released in 2016 and is constantly being developed and extended. At the time of writing we are now on Angular 6; Angular 2+ is not backward-compatible with AngularJS. See the Angular versions and release cycles sidebar for a bit more information about the number and release cycles. Angular versions and release cycles The change from Angular 1.x to Angular 2 was a big deal in the developer community. It was a long time coming, very different and not backwards compatible. But now Angular are releasing versions much more frequently, aiming for every six months. At the time of writing we’re on Angular 6, with 7 already being heavily worked on. The frequency of change is nothing to worry about though, the changes are nowhere near as big as the complete re- write that happened between 1.x and 2.0. The changes are generally small incremental changes. There may be some breaking changes between 4 and 5, or 5 and 6 but these are normally small, specific items that are easy to pick up. It is very different from the change from Angular 1.x to 2.0. Node.js was created in 2009, and its development and maintenance are currently under the purview of the Node Foundation, of which Joyent the organization that created Node is a major member. Node.js uses Google’s open source V8 JavaScript engine at its core. 1.1 Why learn the full stack? So, indeed, why learn the full stack? It sounds like an awful lot of work! Well yes, it is quite a lot of work, but it’s also very rewarding as you get to create fully functioning data-driven websites and applications all by yourself. And with the MEAN stack it isn’t as hard as you might think. 1.1.1 A very brief history of web development Back in the early days of the web, people didn’t have high expectations of websites. Not much emphasis was given to presentation; it was much more about what was going on behind the scenes. Typically, if you knew something like Perl and could string together a bit of HTML then you were a web developer. As use of the internet spread, businesses started to take more of an interest in how their online presence portrayed them. In combination with the increased browser support of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript, this desire started to lead to more complicated front-end implementations. It was no longer a case of being able to string together HTML; you needed to spend time on CSS and JavaScript, making sure it looked right and worked as expected. And all of this needed to work in different browsers, which were much less compliant than they are today. ©Manning Publications Co. We welcome reader comments about anything in the manuscript - other than typos and other simple mistakes. These will be cleaned up during production of the book by copyeditors and proofreaders. https://forums.manning.com/forums/getting-mean-with-mongo-express-angular-and-node-second-edition 3 This is where the distinction between front-end developer and back-end developer came in. Figure 1.1 illustrates this separation over time. Figure 1.1 Divergence of front-end and back-end developers over time While the back-end developers were focused on the mechanics behind the scenes, the front- end developers focused on building a good user experience. As time went on, higher expectations were made of both camps, encouraging this trend to continue. Developers often had to choose an expertise and focus on it.
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