Mastering Modern MEAN Stack Development – Working with MongoDB, Express.JS, Angular.JS, Node.JS & More

Course Code: 1325

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Overview

This is a detailed web development course focused on the latest web technologies, performance, optimization, user interface design patterns and best practices. In this course, participants learn about MEAN development and related technologies with the help of a balanced mixture of theory and practical labs, while also learning how to develop new skills to design, implement and deploy robust, flexible, and safe web applications.

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Course Delivery

This course is available in the following formats:

Live Classroom
Duration: 22 days

Live Virtual Classroom
Duration: 22 days

What You'll learn

Design, implement and deploy robust, flexible, and safe web applications
Learn advanced JavaScript frameworks and MEAN Stack technologies
Understand full stack development
Understanding REST services and working with REST APIs
Working for real-time data support

Outline

Module 1: Full Stack development

MEAN Stack overview
- Node.js – Web server platform
- Express – Web app framework for Node.js
- MongoDB – Database
- Angular – Front-end framework
MEAN Stack architecture
- MEAN Stack vs traditional web applications
- JavaScript – Language of the Stack
- JSON – Data format of the Stack
- Typical MEAN architecture

Module 2: Building a MEAN application

Setting up the project
- Node.js in-depth
- Node package manager (npm)
- npm and installing dependencies
- Express in-depth
- Setting up an express project
- MVC and express
Building first application
- Defining the application
- Defining routes in express
- Basic controllers
- Working with controllers and routes
- Understanding views
- Working with views and data
Adding data to the picture
- MongoDB in-depth
- NoSQL database design
- Creating a MongoDB database
- Connecting to the MongoDB database
- MongoDB and REST APIs

Module 3: REST APIs

Overview of REST
- Representational state transfer
- REST characteristics
- REST elements
- REST architectural principles
- REST and HTTP
- REST/HTTP: Representation-oriented
Designing RESTful services
- Effectively designing RESTful services
- Best practices for endpoint definition
- Using query parameters
- Working with HTTP GET and DELETE
- Working with HTTP PUT
- Working with HTTP POST
- Best practices for HTTP methods
- Handling additional operations

Module 4: Real-time data support

Exposing MongoDB with REST APIs
- GET- Reading data from MongoDB
- POST – Adding data to MongoDB
- PUT – Updating data to MongoDB
- DELETE – Removing data from MongoDB
Consuming REST APIs with Express
- Calling an API from Express
- Building an API request
- Consuming an API response
- Passing data to the view
- Passing data to the API
- Validating data
- Handling errors

Module 5: Angular for a dynamic Front-End

High-performance questions: Ask vs. Tell
Experimenting and hypothesis testing
Lean startup and canvases
Kanban values and systems
Iterative framework and sampling of practices

Prerequisites

Participants must have prior experience or working knowledge of developing software applications, as well as have a strong understanding of basic JavaScript technologies. Participants should be comfortable working with basic web application concepts including REST and CRUD. They should have a working knowledge of core JavaScript or should have recently attended the course Web Essentials: JavaScript.

Who Should Attend

This is an intermediate and beyond level web development course, designed for experienced developers who need to extend their knowledge of advanced JavaScript frameworks and MEAN Stack technologies.

This course is highly recommended for: