Intro to Full-Stack Javascript

Semester

Project:

Your first Full-stack application w/

Node.js-MongoDB-p5.js

Summer Semester 2020

Instructor: Taimur Khan

  • Summary session 4:
    • Self-learning
      • Data Structures: Objects & Arrays
      • Higher Order Functions
      • Secret Life of Objects
      • Homework 3 + 4
    • Guided-learning
      • Some Backend concepts
         
  • Session 5 themes:
    • Brief Introductions to:
      • ​Node js
      • MongoDB
      • P5.js
      • Semester Project

Session 5 - Overview

Node.js

Source: Topal 

Intro

  • Node.js is a packaged compilation of Google’s V8 JavaScript engine
  •  Aiming to create real-time websites with push capability
  • All about Nodejs: https://nodejs.dev/learn/introduction-to-nodejs

Note: Threads refer to the highest level of code executed by a processor, so with many threads, your CPU can handle several tasks at the same time. All CPUs have active threads, and every process performed on your computer has at least a single thread.

Mongodb

Source: Geekforgeeks.

  • The name MongoDB comes from "humongous".
  • MongoDB is a so-called NoSQL DBMS (Database Management System)
  • Its most notable key-features are:
    • FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software),
    • horizontally scalable, very fast, schema-less,
    • document-oriented,
    • written in C++ with native drivers to most programming languages out there.
  • All about MongoDB:

    https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/introduction/

Intro

p5.js

Source:  Taimur Khan

  • "p5.js is a JavaScript library for creative coding, with a focus on making coding accessible and inclusive for artists, designers, educators, beginners, and anyone else!"
  • Processing for the web
  • Processing is an open-source graphical library and integrated development environment built for the electronic arts, new media art, and visual design communities
  • More about p5js:
    https://p5js.org/learn/

Intro

Visualising the database:

1) Link to source code repository:  https://github.com/thisistaimur/intro-fullstack-js-ss20;

 

2)Download the repository and read the README file ;

 

3) Follow the instructions to recreate and "run" the project locally;

 

4) Write two pages about what you experience while recreating the project, e.g.:

  • Did you understand all the concepts?
  • Describe how the data moves from being generated on the server to being visualised on the client?
  • Can you think of anything that would improve the program?

Semester Project

The Big overview

Source: Taimur Khan's Coggle --  video links from www.codecademy.com.

Closing Remarks

Godspeed!

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