Spotlight: MEAN Stack 2014
who it's for
full stack developers, node developers, angular developers, MongoDB developers, frontend developers, devops engineers
topics
Passport-based authentication; server-side authorization envelopes; Express routing and middleware; Express generator and nodemon workflow; Mongoose ODM and aggregation pipeline; MongoDB replication and sharding; Node cluster API and scaling; Socket.IO realtime messaging; Angular two-way binding and ngRoute; mock API servers and workflow tooling
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication & Authorization Architecture in the MEAN Stack | Yuri Takhteyev | 39m |
Argues that authentication uses Passport/third‑party providers but real security puts authorization on the server while mirroring decisions to the client for… | ||
| Building your first MEAN application | Dmitry Baev | 41m |
Focuses on MongoDB as the data engine in a MEAN stack and claims a JSON document model speeds prototyping and avoids heavyweight joins. Builds a working City… | ||
| Express 101 | Faisal Abid | 38m |
Quick hands‑on primer showing real Express code: basic app.get/app.post routes, res.send versus res.render, JSON body parsing, and using process.env.PORT for… | ||
| Getting Started with Node.JS | Derek Watson | 39m |
Argues Node is best for JSON APIs and lightweight network servers, demonstrates using npm packages (Express, Mocha, Chai) and package.json to compose modules… | ||
| MongoDB: Advantages of an Open Source NoSQL Database | Kevin Cearns | 31m |
MongoDB is an open source document database (BSON, written in C++) that favors flexible schemas and in-memory performance for web‑scale apps; production best… | ||
| Node & Express as Workflow Tools | Topher Bullock | 44m |
Shows building a small toolkit that uses Node + Express + Grunt (jasmine + watch), Commander, growl, mock-json and replify to solve front-end workflow pain… | ||
| Socket to me | Dann Toliver | 40m |
Demonstrates building real-time apps with the WebSockets API and Socket.IO on Node: live code shows io.sockets.on connection handlers, client io.connect, and… | ||
| AngularJS & Express: A Data-Driven Introduction | Matias Niemelä | 40m |
Live demo shows how AngularJS consumes an REST-style API served by Express to build a data-driven SPA: two-way binding with ngModel, lists with ngRepeat… | ||
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