Mastering JavaScript Single Page Application Development

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to build a full stack application from database to frontend using nothing but JavaScript-based tools. In the previous chapters we looked at the MEAN stack components. Now we've started to put them together.

You started by looking at Node.js, our JavaScript-based runtime environment. You used the Node.js REPL to execute JavaScript code on the command line. You then wrote a script, a small web server, which could be run by Node.js

You learned the two methods to set up an Express application. Additionally, you also used the express generator to build out a functioning framework to build an application. You learned about routing and middleware—the two key components of Express.

MongoDB is a NoSQL database that ...