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
