Building a real life application in node js
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This document provides an overview of building a real-life application in Node.js. It discusses selecting a database like MongoDB, using Express for routing and templating, and Mongoose for modeling and interacting with the database. Key components covered include setting up routing, views, and static assets in Express, performing CRUD operations in MongoDB via Mongoose, and using templating engines like Jade or EJS. The overall goal is to build a basic content management system to demonstrate integrating these technologies.
Building a real life application in node js
- 1. Building a real-life application in Node JS Darren Waddell
- 2. ME ME ME ME ME • MooTools Developer • Love JavaScript! • C# Developer • Love building big apps!
- 4. ‘Real-life applications’ • Websites • Content Management Systems • Blog Engines • (Not games, chat programs, ‘Native HTML5’ fish demos)
- 6. What did I need to start • OSX! (or linux) • Install Node and NPM • A DB (MongoDB)
- 7. Confusing things! • Non-blocking, event driven, asynchronous • NoSQL • Modules and NPM • No Firebug!
- 8. Things I need for my app • Routing • Database • Templating
- 9. Express Setting up server var app = require('express').createServer(); app.get('/', function(req, res){ res.send('hello world'); }); app.listen(80);
- 10. Express Setting up View handler app.set('view engine', 'jade'); app.set('views', __dirname + '/views'); app.get('/foo/bar', function(req, res){ res.render('foo/bar'); // calls /views/foo/bar.jade }); app.listen(80);
- 11. Express Setting up ‘static assets’ var app = require('express').createServer(); app.use( express.static(__dirname + '/public') ); <script type=”foo.js”></script> // is at http://foo.com/foo.js // NOT http://foo.com/public/foo.js
- 12. Express Passing data to views app.get('/foo/bar', function(req, res){ res.render('foo/bar', { locals: { foo: ‘bar’ } }); });
- 13. Express Passing data to views app.get('/users/:id', function(req, res){ // req.params contains // the querystring values var id = req.params.id; });
- 14. Express Passing data to views app.use(express.bodyParser()); app.post('/users/:id', function(req, res){ // req.body contains the postback var username = req.body.name; });
- 15. Express ‘Master Pages’ app.set('view options', { layout: 'shared/layout' }); app.get('/foo/bar', function(req, res){ res.render('foo/bar'); });
- 16. Things I need for my app • Routing • Database • Templating
- 17. Mongo DB • No tables! ‘Collections’ • No Rows! ‘Documents’ • No columns! ‘Fields’ • JSON format! • No SQL joins! • Flexible table collection structure
- 18. Mongo DB select * from ‘foo’ db.foo.find({});
- 19. Mongo DB insert into ‘foo’ set (‘foobar’) values (‘whatever’); db.foo.insert({ ‘foobar’: ‘whatever’ });
- 20. Mongo DB delete from ‘foo’ where ‘name’ = ‘Darren’ db.foo.remove({ ‘name’:‘Darren’ });
- 21. Mongoose • Models • Getters and Setters, Defaults,Validators • Avoid callback soup (very important!)
- 22. Mongoose Simple modelling var mongoose = require(‘mongoose’); mongoose.connect(‘mongodb://localhost/myDB’); var User = new mongoose.Schema({ username: String, fullname: String, password: String }); var myUserModel = mongoose.model(‘User’); myUserModel.find({}, function(err, docs){ docs.forEach(function(user){ // do stuff }); });
- 23. Mongoose Simple modelling var mongoose = require(‘mongoose’); mongoose.connect(‘mongodb://localhost/myDB’); var User = new mongoose.Schema({ username: String, fullname: String, password: String }); var myUserModel = mongoose.model(‘User’); myUserModel.username = ‘fakedarren’; myUserModel.fullname = ‘William Waddell’; myUserModel.save();
- 24. Mongoose Simple modelling var myUserModel = mongoose.model(‘User’); myUserModel.username = ‘fakedarren’; myUserModel.fullname = ‘William Waddell’; myUserModel.save();
- 25. MongooseDefault values var mongoose = require(‘mongoose’); mongoose.connect(‘mongodb://localhost/myDB’); var User = new mongoose.Schema({ username: String, fullname: String, password: String, role: { type: String, default: ‘Admin’ } });
- 26. Mongoose Getters and Setters var mongoose = require(‘mongoose’); mongoose.connect(‘mongodb://localhost/myDB’); var User = new mongoose.Schema({ username: String, fullname: String, password: String }); User.path(‘password’).set(function(value){ if (password.length < 8){ return new Error(‘Password must be more than 8 characters’); } else { return value; } });
- 27. Mongoose Middleware / promises / whatever it’s called User.pre(‘save’, function(next){ // do something next(); }); User.pre(‘save’, function(next){ // do something else next(); }); var myUserModel = mongoose.model(‘User’); myUserModel.username = ‘fakedarren’; myUserModel.fullname = ‘William Waddell’; myUserModel.save();
- 28. Things I need for my app • Routing • Database • Templating
- 29. View Engines HAML Jade EJS CoffeeKup jQuery Templates
- 30. View Engines HAML Jade EJS CoffeeKup jQuery Templates
- 31. Jade http://jade-lang.com/ !!! 5 html(lang="en") head title= pageTitle script(type='text/javascript') if (foo) { bar() } body h1 Jade - node template engine #container - if (youAreUsingJade) p You are amazing - else p Get on it!
- 32. !!! 5 html(lang="en") head title= pageTitle script(type='text/javascript') if (foo) { bar() } body h1 Jade - node template engine #container - if (youAreUsingJade) p You are amazing - else p Get on it!
- 33. EJS https://github.com/visionmedia/ejs <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Awesome</title> </head> <body> <% if (names.length) { %> <ul> <% names.forEach(function(name){ %> <li><%= name %></li> <% }) %> </ul> <% } %> </body> </html>
- 34. <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Awesome</title> </head> <body> <% if (names.length) { %> <ul> <% names.forEach(function(name){ %> <li><%= name %></li> <% }) %> </ul> <% } %> </body> </html>
- 35. Things I need for my app • Routing • Database • Templating
- 36. Things I need for my app • Routing • Database • Templating • And a million other things....
- 37. Thanks! @fakedarren https://github.com/fakedarren/node-cms