Mini Project: Study NodeJS - ExpressJS

Tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_-VfJajZj0VatBpaXkEHK_UPHL7dW6I3

Tech-Stack

• NodeJS
• Express
• Nodemon :
• morgan :
• express-handlebars
• MVC Model
• mongodb
• mongoose

Deploy

Function

Dependencies

• Nodemon: is a tool that helps develop node.js based applications by automatically restarting the node application when file changes in the directory are detected.
• Morgan: HTTP request logger middleware for node.js
• express-handlerbars: This view engine uses sensible defaults that leverage the "Express-way" of structuring an app's views.
• mongoDB : Non-sql database
• mongoose : is a MongoDB object modeling tool designed to work in an asynchronous environment. Mongoose supports both promises and callbacks.

After this project

I have understand about

• MVC Model (Models, Views, Controllers)
• Web Services with NodeJS & Express
• using Morgan for HTTP request logger
• using Mongo DB: NoSQL database for storage data
• POST GET method
• Routing
• Query parameters
• Template Engine, split up to MVC model
• Validation data with mongoose
• CRUD functions (Create, Read, Update, Delete)

Directory Structure

.
├── src
  ├── index.js
  ├── public
      ├── css
          └── app.css
      └── img
          └── logo.png
  ├── app
      ├── controllers
          ├── NewsController.js
          └── SiteController.js
      └── models
          ├── Course.js
  ├── routes
      ├── index.js
      ├── news.js
      └── site.js
  ├── resources
      ├── scss
          ├── _variables.scss
          └── app.scss
      └── views
          ├── layouts
              └── main.hbs
          ├── partials
              ├── footer.hbs
              └── header.hbs
          ├── home.hbs
          └── news.hbs
  └── util
      └── mongoose.js
├── package.json
├── package-lock.json
└── nodemon.json

Set up

npm install and npm start

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