Server-side Development with NodeJS, Express and MongoDB
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology via Coursera
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Overview
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At the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of server-side concepts, CRUD and REST
- Build and configure a backend server using NodeJS framework
- Build a RESTful API for the front-end to access backend services
Syllabus
- Introduction to Server-side Development
- In this module you will be introduced to Node, Node modules and the Node HTTP server. You will learn about the Express framework and how to set up a REST API using Express.
- Data, Data, Where art Thou Data?
- This module looks in detail at data storage with MongoDB, the popular NoSQL database. You will learn first about Express generator for scaffolding an Express application. Then you will learn about MongoDB. You will learn how to interact with MongoDB from a Node application. Then you will learn the Mongoose ODM to create schemas and models, and interact with MongoDB server.
- Halt! Who goes there?
- This module is dedicated to user authentication. We first develop a full-fledged REST API server with Express, Mongo and Mongoose. Thereafter we examine basic authentication and session-based authentication briefly. We then develop token-based authentication with the support of JSON web tokens and the Passport module.
- Backend as a Service (BaaS)
- In this module we learn about Mongoose population, a way of cross-referencing documents and populating the documents from other documents. We then review secure communication using HTTPS. We look at Backend as a Service (BaaS) and take a brief look at Loopback.
Taught by
Jogesh K. Muppala
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- #1 in Subjects / Javascript / Node.Js
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Reviews
5.0 rating, based on 1 reviews
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Ramzan completed this course, spending 4 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be medium.
A good structured course and instructor made the lectures interesting.
I feel that you are one of the best teacher that I have ever had
I really enjoyed the class.
Thank You.