Getting Started MEAN Stack
Baskin Tapkan
VP of Software Development - Composit Group, Inc
March 21, 2015
http://slides.com/baskint/devfestmn-mean#/
- Full stack software developer using MVC frameworks (e.g. AngularJS, ASP.NET, Rails)
- Open source software, community and user groups
- Attend local user groups:
- GDG Twin Cities (Code42 & Macalester)
- Angular.MN (Virtuwell)
- JavaScript-MN (coco - uptown)
- Ruby.MN (DayBlock Brewery)
- Arduino.MN (Code 42)
- Node-MN (SportNgine)
- MongoDB local meetup?
- Part-time cloud developer & integrator (Azure & AWS)
- IEEE Senior Member - Computer Society
- Master of Science in EE - Signal Processing
About me
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Just a bit more about me...
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first DevFestMN - 2014
Windsurf & Kiteboard/Snowkite
Once a year pilgramage to :
- Hood River, OR
- South Padre Island, TX
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What is "MEAN" Stack?
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Why "MEAN"?
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OS Independence
Single-page-application (SPA)
One language on every stack
No discrete technologies
Tons of support - Node Modules
JSON for data transfer
Derived from the word humongous, MongoDB is a scalable and high-performance open source database designed to handle document-oriented storage
Stores data in JSON (internally BSON), providing a rich data model which maps to native programming language type with a dynamic schema
No ACID transactions, instead uses dynamic
queries, sorting, rich updates, upserts, and aggregation
Interacting:
- Mongo shell
- Robomongo
- Mongoose module
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MongoDB CRUD Operations
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MongoDB Resources
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docs.mongodb.org
university.mongodb.com
Books
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MongoDB in Action
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MongoDB
The Definitive Guide
- MongoDB Applied Design Patterns
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Event driven: EventEmitter
Callbacks
Async, non-blocking I/O
Streams & Buffer
(x) Callback Hell
Google V8 to execute code
Modules
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NodeJS Resources
Course: "Building Web Apps with Node.js"
Books
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Node.JS in Action
-
Node.JS in Practice
- Node Up & Runing
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A series of middleware calls
Middleware: function with access to request and response objects, and the next in middleware in line request-response lifecycle
Events
Properties
Methods
Request
Response
Router
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app.get('/games/example/auth', auth.requiresLogin, function(req, res, next) {
res.send('Only authenticated users can access this');
});
Middleware
Executed in the order from left to right
Can be used to set a cookie, user's log status, etc.
Template Engines
- Jade - Haml inspired
- Haml.js - Haml
- EJS - Embedded JavaScript template engine
- hbs - handlebards and moustache template engine
- swig - fast template engine
- ... 10+ more
Resources:
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dependecy injection
controllers
directives
factories
services
modules
animations
scopes
expressions
testing
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Task Runners
Focuses on configuration
Focuses on code
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Testing
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Demo-I
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Demo-II
Stale - but Yeoman for generators which does CRUD out of the box
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Alternatives
MongoDB => CouchDB, RavenDB, Riak, Redis
AngularJS => React, EmberJS, Backbone, KnockoutJS, Drundal
Express => Hapi, Koa, Restify
NodeJS => I/O.JS
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Conclusions
- Frameworks are evolving, but JavaScript is here to stay. Keep investing - ES6 and beyond)
- Make a judgement call:
- Write from scratch - hard work, struggle, fail, learn
- Start with a boilerplate framework - relatively easy to start, yet there are limitations
- Participate in online communities
- Have a side personal project
- Stay on top of best practices - user groups, online forms and conferences are great for that
- Practice and attend hackathons, hack nights as possible
- Try out new things, innovate
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