MEAN Cookbook

Over 50 recipes to create full-stack high-performance web applications using pure JavaScript and the MEAN stack.

Key Features

• Architect a fully functional stand-alone web application, including the web server, database, and front-end web application
• Improve the performance and maintainability of your MEAN stack application with tips for configuration and optimization
• Highlights MEAN Stack best practices when working with your application

Book Description

What you will learn

• Bootstrap a new MEAN stack web application using Node.js and Express
• Build a single-page application (SPA) with Angular and Angular-CLI
• Improve browser performance by optimizing your web application resources using Webpack
• Model complex JSON object relationships in MongoDB using Mongoose
• Debug all the layers of a MEAN stack application, including working with source maps
• Build Restful APIs using Express.js and JSON Web Token (JWT) for user authentication
• Use automated testing to improve the reliability and quality of your MEAN stack application

Who this book is for

If you are a JavaScript developer who wants to create high-performing, modern web applications with the MEAN stack, this is the book for you. Web developers familiar with some parts of the MEAN stack will find this a comprehensive guide to fleshing out the other technologies and skills they need to build all JavaScript web applications. Developers interested in transitioning from other web application stacks to an all-JavaScript environment will find a wealth of information about how to work in a MEAN stack environment.
To get the most from this book, you should have a general understanding of web servers and web applications. You are expected to have a basic understanding of running JavaScript, both in a web browser and outside it, using Node.js and the NPM package manager.