MongoDB for MEAN Stack Developers

1h 31mIntermediate2019-04-29

Authors

Alexander Zanfir

President of SocialPlay Inc.

Course details

MEAN combines MongoDB, Express.js, Angular, and Node.js into a single, full-stack solution for JavaScript development. In this project-based course, instructor Alexander Zanfir focuses on the M in the MEAN stack, showing how to persist data using a simple discussion board project. Learn how to create a form for users to post topics and replies, process the submissions on the back end, and store and display the data. Alexander also demonstrates how to associate users with posts. These techniques can be reused and recombined in your own MEAN-based web applications.

Learning objectives
Installing and setting up your MEAN toolset
Making an Angular post form
Sending posts
Displaying messages
Saving users with Mongo
Associating users with posts
Creating your first aggregate

Skills covered

Express.jsMongoDBAngularNode.jsDatabase DevelopmentDatabase ManagementPersonaOpen SourceSoftware Development

Concepts

Introduction

MongoDB for MEAN stack developers
What are you going to build
What is the MEAN stack and why use it

Setup

Install MongoDB
Set up an app with angular CLI
Install Angular Materials

Message Posting

Make an Angular post form
Create a post endpoint with Express
Send a post from Angular to the endpoint
Save to MongoDB from the endpoint

Display Messages

Create a message list query with MongoDB
Create a message list endpoint with Express
Requesting a message list in Angular
Creating a message list view in Angular

User Messages

Updating the message post form
Save a user with MongoDB
Setting up mongoose
Schemas, models, and saving with mongoose
Finding with mongoose
Associate a user with a post when making a post

Aggregates

Creating your first aggregate
Using $match to get a single user

Conclusion

Next steps