Now that we have an idea as to what we are going to build, let's look at the architecture of this application. The following is the high-level design of the application:
We are going to use MongoDB as our database, Node.js as our server-side layer and Angular 5 as our application layer. We are going to use a Node.js Google Cloud SDK module to interface our application with the Google Cloud Platform. For the MongoDB instance, we are going to use the mLab (https://mlab.com/) service and connect that to our application. We are going to set up mLab as part of this chapter.
On the server side, we are using Node.js (https://nodejs.org ...
