Getting MEAN with Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node

Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

1. Setting the baseline

Chapter 1. Introducing full-stack development

1.1. Why learn the full stack?

1.1.1. A very brief history of web development

1.1.2. The trend toward full-stack developers

1.1.3. Benefits of full-stack development

1.1.4. Why the MEAN stack specifically?

1.2. Introducing Node.js: The web server/platform

1.2.1. JavaScript: The single language through the stack

1.2.2. Fast, efficient, and scalable

1.2.3. Using prebuilt packages via npm

1.3. Introducing Express: The framework

1.3.1. Easing your server setup

1.3.2. Routing URLs to responses

1.3.3. Views: HTML responses

1.3.4. Remembering visitors with session ...