Write Modern Web Apps with the MEAN Stack: Mongo, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js

Table of contents

1. Title Page
2. Copyright Page
3. Dedication Page
4. About the Author
5. Contents
6. Preface
   1. Who Is This Book For?
   2. Why I Wrote This Book
7. Introduction
8. Chapter 1. How Modern Web Architecture Is Changing
   1. The Rise of the Static App
   2. Enter the Thick Client
9. Chapter 2. Why JavaScript Is a Good Choice for Modern Apps
   1. What Is Angular.js?
   2. What Is Node.js?
   3. What Is Express?
   4. What Is MongoDB?
10. Chapter 3. Introducing the Social Networking Project
    1. Creating a Static Mockup of the Recent Posts Page
    2. Angularizing the Page
    3. Adding New Posts
    4. Next Steps
11. Chapter 4. Building a Node.js API
    1. The Stock Endpoint
    2. Creating Posts via the API
    3. MongoDB Models with Mongoose
    4. Using Mongoose Models with the POST Endpoint
    5. Next Steps
12. Chapter 5. Integrating Node with Angular
    1. $http
    2. Reading Posts from the API with $http
    3. Serving posts.html Through Node
    4. Saving Posts to the API with $http
    5. Fixing the Post Ordering
    6. Cleaning Up server.js
    7. Cleaning Up Angular
    8. Next Steps
13. Chapter 6. Automating Your Build with Gulp
    1. Introducing Grunt and Gulp
    2. Gulp Hello World
    3. Building JavaScript with Gulp
    4. Building CSS with Gulp
    5. Gulp Dev Task
    6. Other Gulp Plug-ins
    7. Next Steps
14. Chapter 7. Building Authentication in Node.js
    1. Introducing Token Authentication
    2. JSON Web Token (JWT)
    3. Using BCrypt
    4. Authentication with MongoDB
    5. Next Steps
15. Chapter 8. Adding Routing and Client Authentication
    1. Routing
    2. Creating a Login Form
    3. Express Authentication
    4. Angular Events
    5. Authenticating Social Posts
    6. HTML5 Pushstate
    7. Registration
    8. Logout
    9. Remember Me
    10. User Foreign Key
    11. Next Steps
16. Chapter 9. Pushing Notifications with WebSockets
    1. Introducing WebSockets
    2. How WebSockets Work
    3. What Should You Use WebSockets For?
    4. WebSockets in Your Social App
    5. WebSockets in Angular.js
    6. WebSocket Architecture
    7. Dynamic WebSocket Hostname
    8. Next Steps
17. Chapter 10. Performing End-to-End Testing
    1. Setting Up Protractor
    2. JavaScript Testing Frameworks
    3. Writing a Basic Protractor Test
    4. Protractor Expectations
    5. chai-as-promised
    6. When to Use End-to-End Tests
    7. Next Steps
18. Chapter 11. Testing the Node Server
    1. Not Quite Unit Testing
    2. Mocha for Node
    3. Post Controller
    4. SuperTest
    5. Base Router
    6. Using the Base Router with SuperTest
    7. Models in Controller Tests
    8. Testing Controllers with Authentication
    9. Code Coverage
    10. The npm test Command
    11. JSHint
    12. Next Steps
19. Chapter 12. Testing Angular.js
    1. Using Karma
    2. Using Bower
    3. Setting Up Karma
    4. Basic Karma Service Test
    5. HTTP Testing with Karma
    6. Karma Controller Test
    7. Testing Spies
    8. Next Steps
20. Chapter 13. Deploying to Heroku
    1. Platform-as-a-Service
    2. How Heroku Works
    3. Twelve-Factor Apps
    4. Deploying an Application to Heroku
    5. MongoDB on Heroku
    6. Redis on Heroku
    7. Compiling Assets
    8. Node Cluster
    9. Next Steps
21. Chapter 14. Deploying to Digital Ocean
    1. What Is Digital Ocean?
    2. Single-Server vs. Multiserver Architecture
    3. Fedora 20
    4. Creating a Server
    5. Installing Node
    6. Installing MongoDB
    7. Installing Redis
    8. Running the Social App
    9. Running Social App Under systemd
    10. Zero-Downtime Deploys
    11. Multiserver Migration
    12. Next Steps
    13. Conclusion
22. Index