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Express.js Guide: The Comprehensive Book on Express.js. Todo App with Express.js/Node.js and MongoDB. Note: This tutorial is a part of Express.js Guide: The Comprehensive Book on Express.js.

Todo App with Express.js/Node.js and MongoDB

Todo apps are considered to be quintessential in showcasing frameworks akin to famous Todomvc.com for front-end JavaScript frameworks. In this example, we’ll use Jade, forms, LESS, AJAX/XHR and CSRF. In our Todo app, we’ll intentionally not use Backbone.js or Angular to demonstrate how to build traditional websites with the use of forms and redirects. In addition to that, we’ll explain how to plug-in CSRF and LESS. Example: All the source code is in the github.com/azat-co/todo-express for your convenience. Here are some screenshots of Todo app in which we start from a home page: There’s an empty list (unless you played with this app before): Now we can add four items to the Todo List: Mark one of the tasks as “done”, e.g.. Going to the Complete page reveals this done item: Deletion of an item from the Todo list is the only action performed via AJAX/XHR request.

Scaffolding As usual, we start by running if (! Build a real-time polls application with Node.js, Express, AngularJS, and MongoDB. Recently while lecturing on HTML5 to a large group of students, I wanted to poll them and display their voting results, updating in real-time.

Build a real-time polls application with Node.js, Express, AngularJS, and MongoDB

I decided to quickly build a polling app for this purpose. I wanted a simple architecture and not too many different languages and frameworks. So I decided to use JavaScript for everything — Node.js and Express for the server-side, MongoDB for the database, and AngularJS for the front-end user interface. “This MEAN stack (Mongo, Express, Angular, Node) may one day surpass the simplicity of the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) for web application development and deployment.”

I chose to use DevOps Services (formerly JazzHub) to manage the source code for my project. Build an Angular Todo App with a Node Backend. Today we’ll be making a simple todo application based of the TodoMVC project, using the MEAN (Mongo, Express, Angular, Node) Stack.

Build an Angular Todo App with a Node Backend

We will: Create a restful APIStore todos in a MongoDBUse AngularJS as a frontendInterface with our API through ng-resourceUse polling to sync todos across clients What we’re building This is the working app. The full source code is available here: Getting Started If you haven’t used the angular-fullstack generator before, have a look at a previous article. Lets set up a new project. When thats done, run grunt serve. Starting with a clean slate Let’s just clear away some stuff we won’t need.

Edit server.js and remove require('. We’ll also want to delete references to the api controller from lib/routes. The Todo API Lets start by creating the schema for our Todo model. We’re keeping track of when our todos are created and updated so that we can sort by that later. Now lets go ahead and make the todo controller. Routes Our api is done. The client interface. Btford/angular-express-blog. AngularJS Tutorial for Beginners With NodeJS ExpressJS and MongoDB (Part I) - Adrian Mejia’s Blog. This tutorial is meant to be as clear as possible while at the same time teach you how to connect AngularJS with back-end servers in Node.Js, Express.js and databases such as MongoDB, also known as the MEAN stack.

AngularJS Tutorial for Beginners With NodeJS ExpressJS and MongoDB (Part I) - Adrian Mejia’s Blog

Let’s start with angularJS! We are going to start building all the examples in a single HTML file, which has embedded javascript and NO styles/CSS for simplicity. In the next tutorials we will learn how to use angularJS modules to break down the code, add testing to it and styles. What is Angular.js? Angular.js is a MVW (Model-View-Whatever) open-source JavaScript web framework that facilitates the creation of single-page applications (SPA) and data-driven apps. Brief Background AngularJS vs jQuery vs BackboneJS vs EmberJS TL; DR: AngularJS is awesome for building testable single page applications (SPA), and also data driven and CRUD apps. AngularJS motto is “HTML enhanced for web apps!”.

Times have changed since then. Without further ado, let’s dive in! AngularJS Main Components. Building an Angular and Express App Part 1. This is somewhat of an update to one of my earlier posts, but delves into setting up a better front end workflow and also using Express 4.x.

Building an Angular and Express App Part 1

It will also continue into a series of posts on building out an actual app Note: This has been updated for generator-angular 0.9. Please tell me if you run into any problems! Part 2 - Here Part 3 - There Disclaimer: I don't claim to be an expert and would appreciate any helpful tips to improve this! Today folks, we'll be scaffolding out the beginnings of an application that uses the following: Angular JS for the Front End Yeoman + Generator Angular for developer happiness Express + Node for the backend Git for version control And Deploying to either Digital Ocean or Modulus.io.... maybe both? The app will do the following: Use Express as a RESTful service Handle user creation and accounts Accept payments through Stripe Implement some security The above are a rough outline of all the things this will likely entail, but we'll add them as we go. Building an Angular and Express App Part 1.