MEAN Web Development

354 Pages·2015·4.97 MB·English

MEAN Web Development
Master real-time web application development using a
mean combination of MongoDB, Express, AngularJS,
and Node.js
Amos Q. Haviv
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
MEAN Web Development
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Credits
Author Project Coordinator
Amos Q. Haviv Shipra Chawhan
Reviewers Proofreaders
Clay Diffrient Simran Bhogal
Liran Tal Ameesha Green
Vikram Tiwari
Indexers
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About the Author
Amos Q. Haviv is a software developer, technical consultant, and the creator of
MEAN.IO and MEAN.JS. He has been a full-stack developer for almost a decade
and worked for multiple start-ups and enterprise companies. He now works with
various platforms, frameworks, and programming languages, including the .NET
framework, Python, Scala, Objective-C, and of course, JavaScript.
For the past 3 years, Amos has been working with full-stack JavaScript solutions,
including Node.js and MongoDB, as well as MVC frontend frameworks, such as
AngularJS. In 2013, he created the irst popular boilerplate for MEAN applications,
MEAN.IO, and currently continues the development of MEAN solutions at
http://meanjs.org. He also gives lectures on advanced web technologies at
meetups and conferences, and he guides development teams at various companies.
I would like to thank my partner in life, Einat Shahak, for putting
up with late night hacking sessions and a messy workroom. She has
seen me go through every important turning point of my life with
nothing but sheer encouragement and support. I would like to thank
my parents for helping me become who I am, and my brothers for
always reminding me who I want to be. I would also like to thank
my dear friend and colleague Roie Schwaber-Cohen. Without his
efforts and support, the development of MEAN as well as this book
quite possibly would not have happened.
Lastly, I would like to thank the contributors and developers who
make the open source community the powerful and creative force
that it is. You taught me more than I could have ever imagined.
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About the Reviewers
Clay Diffrient is a software engineer who loves to work at the cutting edge of web
technologies. He has worked many times developing applications using the MEAN
stack. He focuses his time and effort on the development of software that can help
other people learn. His most recent project involving the MEAN stack is a computer
adaptive testing system, which is currently under active development. He completed
his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at Brigham Young University-Idaho. He
currently works for Instructure, Inc. as a frontend developer on Canvas, an open
source learning management system.
I want to thank my wonderful wife, Rachael, for her support in all
that I do.
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Liran Tal is a top contributor to the open source MEAN.IO and MEAN.JS full-stack
JavaScript frameworks. He is also a certiied MongoDB developer and a technical
reviewer of the yet-to-be-published MongoDB Cookbook, Packt Publishing (the name of
the book might change in the course of publishing). Being an avid supporter of and
contributor to the open source movement, in 2007, he redeined network RADIUS
management by establishing daloRADIUS, a world-renowned and industry-leading
open source project.
Liran currently works at HP Software as an R&D team leader on a combined
technology stack, featuring a Drupal-based collaboration platform, Java, Node.js,
and MongoDB.
At HP Live Network, Liran plays a key role in system architecture design, shaping
the technology strategy from planning and development to deployment and
maintenance in HP's IaaS cloud. Acting as the technological focal point, he loves
mentoring teammates, drives for better code methodology, and seeks out innovative
solutions to support business strategies. He has a cum laude (Honors) in his
Bachelor's degree in Business and Information Systems Analysis studies and enjoys
spending his time with his beloved wife, Tal, and his new born son, Ori. Among
other things, his hobbies include playing the guitar, hacking all things on Linux, and
continuously experimenting and contributing to open source projects.
Vikram Tiwari is currently working as a MEAN stack developer in SilverPush
(SilverEdge, Inc.). Using MEAN, he has developed a frontend tool for a mobile
advertising management platform. Along with MEAN stack, he also works on
Python, Google App Engine, Redis, DynamoDB, Aerospike, and various Google
APIs. In his free time, he contributes to various projects on GitHub and manages the
developers' community at New Delhi with Google Developers Group.
Yutaka Yamaguchi is currently working as a frontend MEAN application
developer. Prior to this, he worked as a senior manager in the quality assurance area
for 7 years. He lives in Tokyo with his wife and their 4-year old son.
He built his irst own home page in 1999, which is written with HTML4 by Notepad,
without CSS and JavaScript.
He has worked at Six Apart, whose lagship product is the movable type of a social
publishing platform dedicated to helping businesses and bloggers manage content
and thrive in today's social media landscape.
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Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1: Introduction to MEAN 7
Three-tier web application development 8
The evolution of JavaScript 9
Introducing MEAN 10
Installing MongoDB 11
Installing MongoDB on Windows 12
Running MongoDB manually 12
Running MongoDB as a Windows Service 13
Installing MongoDB on Mac OS X and Linux 14
Installing MongoDB from binaries 14
Install MongoDB using a package manager 15
Using the MongoDB shell 16
Installing Node.js 17
Installing Node.js on Windows 17
Installing Node.js on Mac OS X 19
Installing Node.js on Linux 20
Running Node.js 20
Introducing NPM 21
Using NPM 21
The installation process of NPM 22
Managing dependencies using the package.json ile 24
Summary 27
Chapter 2: Getting Started with Node.js 29
Introduction to Node.js 30
JavaScript event-driven programming 31
Node.js event-driven programming 33
JavaScript closures 34
Node modules 36