To help lift the veil of secrecy around where software comes from, and how to actually make it work for you and your business, lets go through a step by step approach of architecting, designing, and developing a web app.
How can you take the server side of your expressJS based, Mean Stack app, and turn it into a Meteor App? Let’s take a look at sending emails using Meteor.
When you’re building software, regardless of whether it’s software that will be installed on a computer (think .exe) or hosted in the cloud (think www), it’s generally a good idea to follow some methodology. I say generally, because you could choose to ignore the methodology.
The downside of not following some methodology is that things may take you a bit longer, with likely repetition and rework. This could be a problem when you’re creating software on a budget and within a specified timeframe; but may not be an issue if you are just starting out and teaching yourself to code.
In this video we’ll make some final changes to our Update Customer Modal instance using Angular UI. We’ll use the AngularJS data-model references and classes, as well as an introduction to Form validation with AngularJS.
We look at:
– A recap of our Angular UI Customer Update Modal
– Using the AngularJS curly brackets to display the name of customer in the Modal
– Updating the refererence to the ‘referred’ data model
– Updating the colour of the User glyphicon when the referred icon is checked using ng-class
– Form validation by adding mandatory fields to our Modal
– Adding a Form name to reference our Form from our Controller
– Checking to see if a Form is valid from within our Controller
– Disabling the Save & Close button when the Form is invalid
We’ll look at two Angular directives, looping through an array using ng-repeat, adding some dynamic styles using ng-class and add them to our MEAN Stack
We look at:
– Two Angular Directives
– Looping through an array using ng-repeat
– adding some dynamic styles using ng-class
Behaviour driven tests are also a great way to make sure that the requirements aren’t forgotten about as the project progresses. There’s no better way to show progress than when you can easily show how many tests are passing at any point in time.
We go behind the scenes with early designs for a Material Design Web App that I’m working on, and some insight into the types of things that designers need to consider for UX that is created for a specific audience.
We look at:
– Our App Designs (use cases, storyboard, and wireframes)
– We’ll then take the design and split it into a Bootstrap grid layout.
– Locating the home page in the MEAN Stack app structure
– We start building a responsive web app using Bootstrap!
In this video we’ll look at changing the MEAN App Login Page, and start to get it to look like our Login page Wireframe.
We look at:
– The MEAN Stack Sign-in page
– The process for changing the details on the sign-in page
– Introduction to Bootstrap Input Groups
– Introduction to Bootstrap Form Groups and Button layouts
A context diagram is a great place to start exploring. It lets us look at a problem from the outside, and peel away the layers until we get to the core. This is a great way to understand how a business interacts with the entities that live outside of it.
In this video we’ll start to look at the Customers Pages, and create our very own Customer CRUD Module using the yeoman generator.
We look at:
– The Customers Pages, including the use case, storyboard and wireframes
– Backing up our work using Git
– The different types of generators available with the MEAN Stack
– Using the Yo scaffolding tool to generate a Customer CRUD (create, read, update, delete) module
In this video we’ll use the yeoman generator to create a new Angular.js factory service.