Course Overview

What will you learn?

Learn all of the different aspects of full stack JavaScript development using the MEAN stack. We're not talking about any generators or MEAN frameworks here, we're talking about a full understanding of MongoDB, Express, AngularJS and Node.js. Throughout this course, we'll show you how to use each of these technologies, and how to use them together.

Build Great JavaScript Applications using MongoDB, Express, AngularJS and Node.js

The overall aim of the course is to enable you to confidently build all different types of applications using the MEAN stack.

To do this, the course is divided into four sections, each section focusing on a different goal. The four sections all work together building a full application, with an overall outcome of showing how to architect and build complete MEAN applications.

The breakdown of sections looks like this:

  1. By the end of section one, you will be able to set up a web-server using Node.js and Express, to listen for requests and return a response.
  2. By the end of section 2, you will be able to design NoSQL databases and work with MongoDB from the command line and from Node and Express.
  3. After section 3 you will be able to design and build robust REST APIs using Node.js, Express and MongoDB, following industry best practices.
  4. By the end of section four, you will be able to build high-quality AngularJS single page applications (SPAs), following industry best practices.
  5. When you have finished with section five you will able to add authentication to the MEAN stack, enabling users to log in and manage sessions.

Along the way there are various activities, so you can be as hands-on as you like. You'll get the most out of the course if you follow along and code as you go, but if you want to speed through it the source code is supplied with each video (where relevant).

What are the requirements?

  • You should be familiar with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
  • You will need a text editor (like Sublime Text) or IDE (like Webstorm)
  • You will need a computer on which you have the rights to install new software

What am I going to get from this course?

By the end of this course you will be able to:

  • Build full stack applications in JavaScript using the MEAN technologies
  • Architect MEAN stack applications from scratch
  • Design and build RESTful APIs using Node.js, Express and MongoDB
  • Create and use MongoDB databases
  • Develop modular, maintainable Single Page Applications using AngularJS

What is the target audience?

This course is meant for anyone who wants to start building full stack JavaScript applications in Node.js, AngularJS, Express and MongoDB. It starts with the basic concepts of each technology, so users experienced in a particular area will be able to speed through these sections. This course assumes you have some JavaScript knowledge, and does not teach JavaScript itself.


Course curriculum

  • 1
    Creating web servers with Node.js and Express
    • Introduction to the MEAN stack and this course FREE PREVIEW
    • Node.js - First steps FREE PREVIEW
    • Node.js - require and module.exports
    • Chapter 1 source code
    • Node.js - asynchronous non-blocking code
    • Node.js - using npm for dependency management
    • Express - setting up Express to listen for requests
    • Express - routing: defining URL routes and sending response
    • Express - serving static files
    • Express - exploring Middleware
    • Express - using the Express router
    • Express - using controllers to define functionality
    • Express - defining dynamic routes with URL parameters
    • Express - working with querystrings and posted form data
    • BONUS: Improving MEAN development workflow with Nodemon
    • Quiz: Creating web servers with Node.js and Express
  • 2
    Working with MongoDB and NoSQL
    • Introduction to NoSQL databases
    • MongoDB: the basics
    • MongoDB - Getting started with the Mongo shell FREE PREVIEW
    • Reference - Getting Started with Mongo shell
    • MongoDB - Interacting with data from the command line (Mongo shell)
    • Reference - Interacting with MongoDB data from the command line
    • MongoDB - Importing and exporting data
    • Reference, Activity & JSON file for Importing and exporting data
    • MongoDB - Connecting to a Node.js application
    • Activity and source code for Connecting to a Node.js application
    • MongoDB - Querying the database from Node.js
    • Source code - Querying the database from Node.js
    • MongoDB - Creating documents from Node.js
    • Source code - Creating documents from Node.js
    • Quiz: MongoDB and NoSQL
  • 3
    Build robust REST APIs using Node.js, Express and MongoDB
    • Source code for the Chapter on APIs
    • Introduction to REST APIs
    • Using Mongoose to manage MongoDB database connections in Node
    • APIs - Defining data structure with Mongoose schemas and models
    • APIs - Defining complex data structures with Mongoose schemas
    • APIs - Creating GET routes using Mongoose queries
    • APIs - Creating GET routes for subdocuments using Mongoose
    • APIs - Finding documents based on geo-coordinates
    • APIs - Error trapping and hardening a REST API
    • Activity for "Error trapping and hardening a REST API"
    • APIs - Creating new documents in MongoDB using Mongoose and POST methods
    • APIs - Updating existing documents in MongoDB
    • Activity for "Updating existing documents in MongoDB"
    • APIs - Using Mongoose to delete data from MongoDB
    • Quiz: Building APIs
  • 4
    Single Page Applications with AngularJS, the right way
    • AngularJS - Expressions and Data-Binding
    • AngularJS - Built-in Directives
    • AngularJS - Built-in Filters
    • AngularJS - Controllers, $scope and controllerAs
    • AngularJS - Modules
    • AngularJS - Single Page Apps, Routes, Templates
    • AngularJS - Built-in Services, Application Architecture
    • AngularJS - Custom Services, Service vs Factory
    • AngularJS - Custom Filters
    • AngularJS - Building the SPA - part 1
    • AngularJS - Building the SPA - part 2
    • AngularJS - Building the SPA - part 3
    • AngularJS - Building the SPA - part 4
    • AngularJS - Building the SPA - The final part
    • Quiz: Single Page Applications with AngularJS, the right way
  • 5
    Adding authentication to the MEAN stack
    • Authentication - Securing the backend
    • Authentication - Adding JWT to the application
    • Authentication - Adding authentication to AngularJS
    • Authentication - AngularJS and JWT
    • Authentication - Tying the pieces together
    • Quiz: Adding authentication to the MEAN stack

Price

Learning Objectives

After completing the course, you will be able to ...

  • Build full stack applications in JavaScript using the MEAN technologies

  • Architect MEAN stack applications from scratch

  • Develop modular, maintainable Single Page Applications using AngularJS

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  • 52 videos

  • 12 hours of content

Instructor

  • Tamas Piros

    Founder / Principal Instructor

    Tamas Piros

    Tamas is a full stack web developer turned technical instructor and curriculum developer. Tamas has more than a decade of experience working with large, prestigious organisations such as Verizon, Panasonic, BBC, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Accenture, OECD and ABN Amro to mention a few. Throughout his career, Tamas has delivered training classes all over the world to both technical (i.e. developers) and non-technical (i.e. product manager and c-level executives) audiences. He regularly conducts presentations and workshops at prestigious conferences and meetups all over the world. His unique style of teaching mixes presentations with a lot of hands-on exercises, real-life examples and use-cases.
  • Simon Holmes

    Instructor

    Simon Holmes

    Simon has been coding JavaScript for 15 years and is the author of Getting MEAN and Mongoose for Application Development. Simon has been a full-stack developer since the late 1990's, building websites, intranets and applications on all manner of technology stacks.