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Full Stack Development With Nodejs

Full stack development uses both frontend and backend code to connect a database to a client display. Node.js is a platform for server-side applications that uses JavaScript uniformly on both client and server sides. It allows for fast, scalable network applications through non-blocking event loops. This document outlines how to build full stack apps with Express and Dust templating on Node.js, connecting to a MySQL database through common functions like require(), app.use(), app.get(), and res.render().

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Full Stack Development With Nodejs

Full stack development uses both frontend and backend code to connect a database to a client display. Node.js is a platform for server-side applications that uses JavaScript uniformly on both client and server sides. It allows for fast, scalable network applications through non-blocking event loops. This document outlines how to build full stack apps with Express and Dust templating on Node.js, connecting to a MySQL database through common functions like require(), app.use(), app.get(), and res.render().

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Full Stack Development

With Node.js
DANIEL SEONG
What is full stack and Node.js?
◦ Both backend and frontend development
◦ Backend: Uses server-side code to connect to database
◦ Frontend: Uses client-side code to display to client
◦ Full stack connects the two!
◦ Node.js
◦ Open source platform for developing server side applications
Why use Node.js?
◦ JavaScript uniformity
◦ Client-side vs Server-side development
◦ Unifies language and data format (JSON)
◦ Fast, scalable network applications
◦ Single-thread vs multiple concurrent threads
◦ 2MB per thread, 8GB RAM gives 4,000 connections vs over 1M connections!
◦ Does this with non-blocking with event loop
◦ Example: messaging app that supports over 10,000 concurrent connections
◦ Node Package Manager (NPM)
Event Loop
What we will be using
◦ Express
◦ Framework that provides robust set of features for web applications
◦ Idea of middleware
◦ Allows to dynamically render HTML based on arguments passed to templates
◦ Dust
◦ JavaScript templating engine
◦ Way to build client side HTML pages with server-side arguments
◦ MySQL
◦ Can use MongoDB to complete JavaScript uniformity and increased flexibility
Schema
Common functions
◦ require()
◦ Load libraries and modules
◦ app.use([path,] callback [, callback...])
◦ Mounts specified middlware function at specified path
◦ app.set(name, value)
◦ Assigns setting “name” to “value”
◦ app.get(path, callback [, callback ...])
◦ Routes HTTP GET requests to specified path
◦ Think of GET requests as “getting” data from server
◦ res.render(view, [locals], callback)
◦ Returns rendered HTML of a view via callback

◦ Reference: https://expressjs.com/en/api.html
Recap
◦ Node.js
◦ Platform that allows you to make fast, scalable web applications
◦ Data
◦ You know how to get data from user, store in a database, retrieve it, and display to user
◦ This is just an introduction…
◦ Explore npm – some really cool libraries out there!
◦ Explore different frameworks
◦ Try building your own web application!

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