What is Angular? (for front-end)
a Client-Side (Browser) Framework which allows you to build Single-Page-Applications
- render UI with dynamic data
- handle user input
- communicate with backend services
What is Node? (for back-end)
a Server-side library: JavaScript on the Server-side
- listen to requests and send resonses
- execute server-side logic
- interact with databases and files
What is Express?(framework of Node)
a Node framework wich simplifies writing server-side code and logic
- based on Node, offers same functionalities
- middlewarebased funnerl requests through functions
- includes routing, view-rendering & more
What is MongoDB?(database)
a NoSQL database which stores ‘Documents’ in Collections’ instead of ‘Records’ and ‘Tables’ as in SQL
- store application data
- enforces no data schema orrelations
- easily connected to Node/Express (not to Angular: risky to expose data in browser where data can easily be hacked)
SPA
the whole user interface is handled as one page only which is dynamically re-rendered all the time by Angular
single page is not necessarily served by Node backendoutline
- Angular front-end
- Node.js + Express backend
- Handling data with MongoDB
- Enhancing the App
- Image upload
- Data pagination
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Error handling
- Optimization
- Deployment
Angular materials
pre-built Angular components
short-cut tips
ctrl + c: stop the server
- stop the server before installing new packages and restart afterwards
