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Learning Node.js for Mobile Application Development

Learning Node.js for Mobile Application Development

By : Stefan Buttigieg
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Learning Node.js for Mobile Application Development

Learning Node.js for Mobile Application Development

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By: Stefan Buttigieg

Overview of this book

Node.js is a massively popular JavaScript library that lets you use JavaScript to easily program scalable network applications and web services. People approaching Node.js for the first time are often attracted by its efficiency, scalability, and the fact that it's based on JavaScript, the language of the Web, which means that developers can use the same language to write backend code. Also, it’s increasingly being seen as a modern replacement for PHP in web development, which relies on fast-paced data exchange. The growing community and the large amount of available modules makes Node.js one of the most attractive development environments. This book takes a step-wise and incremental approach toward developing cross-platform mobile technologies using existing web technologies. This will allow you to truly understand and become proficient in developing cross-platform mobile applications with Node.js, Ionic Framework, and MongoDB. The book starts off by introducing all the necessary requirements and knowledge to build a mobile application with a companion web service. It covers the ability to create an API from scratch and implement a comprehensive user database that will give you the opportunity to offer a mobile application with a personalized experience. Midway through the book, you will learn the basic processes to create a successful mobile application. You will also gain higher-level knowledge, allowing you to develop a functional and secure mobile application to ensure a seamless user experience for end users. Finally, the book ends with more advanced projects, which will bring together all the knowledge and expertise developed in the previous chapters to create a practical and functional mobile-application that has useful real-world features.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
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1. Setting Up Your Workspace
1. Setting Up Your Workspace
The Node.js backend
Installing Node.js on different systems
Setting up the Ionic framework and Cordova for Mac OS X
Setting up the Ionic framework and Cordova for Windows
Setting up Android Studio for Android, Mac, and Windows
Setting up the Android Software Development Kit
Setting up your physical Android device for development
Setting up the Environment Variables on Windows 7 and higher
Setting up the Environment Variables for iOS on Mac OS X
MongoDB
Summary
2
2. Configuring Persistence with MongoDB
2. Configuring Persistence with MongoDB
Learning outcomes of MongoDB
An introduction to MongoDB
Connecting to MongoDB
Creating a database
Creating our collections
Creating relations between documents
Querying MongoDB
Advanced queries
Connecting MongoDB and Node.js
Summary
3
3. Creating an API
3. Creating an API
Learning outcomes of the RESTful API
RESTing easy
It's all hypermedia
Building a RESTful API with Node.js
Implementing our GET handlers
Moving forward
Summary
4
4. Securing Your Backend
4. Securing Your Backend
Understanding the outcomes of token-based authentication
Adding the new collections
Adding an authentication module
Summary
5
5. Real-Time Data and WebSockets
5. Real-Time Data and WebSockets
Polling
WebSockets
Using WebSockets in Node.js
An alternate chat
The efficient serving of static files
Summary
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6. Introducing Ionic
6. Introducing Ionic
Setting up your Ionic web account
Creating your first Ionic application
Checking out your Ionic applications with Ionic View
Going further
Summary
7
7. Building User Interfaces
7. Building User Interfaces
The structure of an Ionic project
Introducing AngularJS
Modifying an Ionic project
Adding a new tab
Going further
Summary
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8. Making Our App Interactive
8. Making Our App Interactive
Creating a new project
Creating a basic MVC project
Accessing the device data
Building for native devices
The list view revisited
Summary
9
9. Accessing Native Phone Features
9. Accessing Native Phone Features
Creating the project
Angular directives
Putting it all together
Adding geolocation via GPS
Summary
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10. Working with APIs
10. Working with APIs
Setting up Parse
Setting up the Ionic project
Connecting Parse to our project
Testing our application
Summary
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11. Working with Security
11. Working with Security
An overview of client-side security
Building a secure app
Summary
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12. Working with Real-Time Data
12. Working with Real-Time Data
A refresher – WebSockets
Getting the lay of the land
Creating the server
Building the chat app
Going further
Summary
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13. Building an Advanced Chat App
13. Building an Advanced Chat App
We need some room!
Namespaces
Creating a multiroom chat application
Summary
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14. Creating an E-Commerce Application Using the Ionic Framework
14. Creating an E-Commerce Application Using the Ionic Framework
Designing our application
Summary
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Index
Index

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "We can include other contexts through the use of the include directive."

A block of code is set as follows:

angular.module('supernav.controllers', [])
.controller('MapCtrl', function ($scope) {
  $scope.mapCreated = function (map) {
    $scope.map = map;
  };
});

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

.state('app.scala', {
  url: '/scala',
  views: {
    'scala-view': {
      templateUrl: 'templates/app-chat.html',
      controller: 'ChatController',
      resolve: {
        chatRoom: function () {
          return 'scala';
        }
      }
    }
  }
});

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

console.log('Hello World!');

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "Conclude this process by clicking on Create Column, and we are done!".

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

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