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

0. Introduction

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

1. Setup

04 - Install MongoDB
05 - Set up an app with angular CLI
06 - Install Angular Materials

2. Message Posting

07 - Make an Angular post form
08 - Create a post endpoint with Express
09 - Send a post from Angular to the endpoint
10 - Save to MongoDB from the endpoint

3. Display Messages

11 - Create a message list query with MongoDB
12 - Create a message list endpoint with Express
13 - Requesting a message list in Angular
14 - Creating a message list view in Angular

4. User Messages

15 - Updating the message post form
16 - Save a user with MongoDB
17 - Setting up mongoose
18 - Schemas, models, and saving with mongoose
19 - Finding with mongoose
20 - Associate a user with a post when making a post

5. Aggregates

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

Conclusion

23 - Next steps