Full Stack JavaScript: Learn Backbone.js, Node.js, and MongoDB, 2nd Edition

Learn agile JavaScript web development using the latest cutting-edge front-end and back-end technologies including Node.js, MongoDB, Backbone.js, Parse.com, Heroku, and Microsoft Azure. Using a key project example of a message board app, you will learn the foundations of a typical web application: fetching data, displaying it, and submitting new data. Practical examples of the app build are provided with multiple technologies and all code examples are in full color.

This book will save you many hours by providing a hand-picked and tested collection of quick start guides that will enable you to spend less time learning and more time building your own applications. Completely updated for this second edition, Full Stack JavaScript uses current versions of all technologies, including ES6/ES2015 and the latest versions of Node and npm. Prototype fast and ship code that matters!

What You’ll Learn

• Use a collection of quick start guides, tutorials, and suggestions, to enhance several development apps
• Review virtually all setup and deployment step-by-step.
• Work with Chat web/mobile applications
• Put front-end and back-end components together and deploy them to production environment

Who This Book Is For

Programmers who want to learn more about effective JavaScript coding

Table of Contents

Part I: Quick Start
Chapter 1: Basics
Chapter 2: Setup

Part II: Front-End Prototyping
Chapter 3: Getting Data from Backend Using jQuery and Parse
Chapter 4: Intro to Backbone.js
Chapter 5: Backbone.js and Parse

Part III: Back-End Prototyping
Chapter 6: Intro to Node.js
Chapter 7: Intro to MongoDB
Chapter 8: Putting Frontend and Backend Together
Chapter 9: Conclusion

Appendix: Further Reading