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Getting started with the MEAN stack

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The hardest part of web development is not knowing where to start, and over thinking the process. Once you’ve jumped over that hurdle, you’ll wonder what you were so worried about! This post goes through the process of installing the MEAN Stack (MongoDB, Express.js, Angular.js, Node.js).

AngularJS Material Starter App in the Mean Stack

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In this post, we’ll take the angular material starter app discussed during ng-conf 2015, and apply it to a MEAN Stack App.

AngularJS Material Design Toolbar Tips and Tricks

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We look through the AngularJS Material Design starter app, with tips and tricks for Toolbars: including, layout=”row”, layout=”column”, md-tall, tabs and themes.

The 30 Day MEAN Stack Honolulu Challenge

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30 jam packed videos with something that you can do with your MEAN Stack app, in less than 15 minutes. A great example and tutorial challenge for anyone new to the mean stack.

AngularJS Material Design in your MEAN Stack

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In this video we’ll add the angular-material package to meanjs, and set up the mean stack to use the angular material toolbar header.

Install MEAN.js 0.4.0 and run using Gulp

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It’s time to take MEAN.js version 0.4.0 for a spin! We’ll go through the installation process using the new generator, and run the new app using gulp.

MEAN Stack – Customer CRUD Module with Yeoman – Day 9

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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

MEAN Stack – Intro to AngularJS ngRepeat & ngClass – Day 4

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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

MEAN Stack – Deploy to Heroku – Day 30(i)

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In this video we’ll deploy our app to Heroku

We look at:
– Downloading the Heroku toolbelt from https://toolbelt.heroku.com/
– Signing up to Heroku from https://www.heroku.com/
– Deploying to Heroku

MEAN Stack – Modelling with Mongoose – Day 10

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In this video we’ll take a look at the Mongoose package, and set up our customers model that we’ll use to create our customers MongoDB collection.

We look at:
– The Customers Pages, with a focus on the create customer storyboard
– The Mongoose website
– The Mongoose documents relating to ‘Defining your schema’
– Setting up our Customers model, based on our storyboard

MEAN Stack – AngularJS & PassportJS Login Credentials – Day 7

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We look at:
– The MEAN Stack Sign-in page
– Creating CSS styles
– Passport.js error messages
– Introduction to Bootstrap Alerts
– Exploring the Angular.js code on the Sign-in page
– Homework – Can you format the Sign-up page? Let me know how you go!

MEAN Stack – AngularJS Models in Bootstrap Forms – Day 12

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In this video we’ll take the changes that we’ve made to the Angular Customers controller, and start mapping the Angular Model to the Create Customer Page. We also begin to style our Create Customer Page based on our Wireframes.

We look at:
– The Yo generated Create Customer Page, and how we find it using the Angular Routes
– Why the page wouldn’t work because we removed the ‘name’ field from our Schema
– Identify the required bootstrap grid based on our wireframes
– Begin to style the Create Customer Page based on our wireframes
– Some tips and tricks on styling Bootstrap for mobile devices
– We map the Angular customer model to our inputs

MEAN Stack – Using an AngularJS UI Modal to Update Customers – Day 19

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In this video we go through an introduction to using Angular UI, and using Angular UI directives in place of Bootstrap JavaScript components. We also start to set-up our ‘Update Customer’ Modal window.

We look at:
– Using Angular UI Bootstrap for JavaScript Bootstrap components
– When custom directives would be used to include vanilla JavaScript to an Angular App
– An Introduction to Angular UI: http://angular-ui.github.io/bootstrap/
– Working through an example of Angular UI for modal windows
– How the Angular UI modal examples ties back to the example code
– Including Angular UI model code back in our app to create an Update Customer Modal

MEAN Stack – MongoDB Queries & AngularJS Scope – Day 15

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In this video we’ll take a detailed look the query functionality used to return a list of customers from MongoDB to the Angular scope. We’ll also look at how to display the returned data on the List Customers Page.

We look at:
– The List Customers Page that was created from the Yeoman Generator
– The use of the data-ng-init directive
– The workings behind the find() function
– The working behind the Customers.query and how it maps up to search the MongoDB
– Following through the query function from the Angular controller and through to the router and the customer.server.controller
– The mongoose code that is used to query MongoDB to return a list of customers
– Finding query documentation on the MongoDB website
– Using the AngularJS Batarang Plugin to look at the Customer data on the List Customers Page
– The syntax used to display data from the Angular Customers scope on the List Customers Page

MEAN Stack – Client & Server Glue – Day 11

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In this video we’ll update the customers model, and look at how the model links through the various files and down to the angular customer controller. Then we’ll start making some updates to our angular controller.

We look at:
– Quick updates to the Customers Model
– The glue between the Customers Server Model and the Customers Server Controller
– The glue between the Customers Server Controller and the Server Routes
– The glue between the Server Routes and the Angular Factory Service
– The glue between the Angular Customers Factory Service and the Angular Customers Controller
– Lastly, we update the create function within the Angular Customers Controller to include the data that we want to pass to our Customers Server Model

MEAN Stack – AngularJS Scope & Controllers – Day 16

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In this video we’ll break some code! We’ll look at the Customers Controller and break it up to support Create and Edit functions. We’ll also look at how we can remove the data-ng-init directive and use ‘Controller As’ to give our Controller an Alias.

We look at:
– The List Customers Page that was created from the Yeoman Generator
– Breaking the Customers Controller into 3 parts
– Using ‘this’ instead of ‘$scope’
– The use of the data-ng-init directive
– Removing the data-ng-init directive with ‘Controller As’
– Referring to a scope within our new Controller as an Alias

MEAN Stack – Style the Create Customer Page – Day 13

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In this video we continue styling the Create Customer Page and look at some Angular functionality. We also create our first Customer Record.

We look at:
– Using CSS to style the Create Customer Page
– Create a new Customers CSS File
– Increase the size of the User Glyphicon
– Align the Referred Checkbox to the left using CSS
– Use ng-class to dynamically change the colour of the User Glyphicon based on the Referred checkbox
– Check if we can create a Customer Record without logging in
– Log into the App so that we can use the Customers Menu
– Create our first Customer record
– Look at how $location can be used to route a user to a new view

MEAN Stack – Modal Styling & AngularJS Form Validation – Day 23

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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

MEAN Stack – Style the Sign-up Page – Day 8

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In this video we’ll have some fun and bootstrap/style out the sign-up page.

We look at:
– The MEAN Stack Sign-up page
– Easily formatting pages using our styles

MEAN Stack – Save data with an AngularJS Modal – Day 22

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In this video we’ll continue setting up our Update Customer Modal instance using Angular UI. We’ll focus on the buttons within the Modal to trigger the update function, save the data and close the Modal window, or cancel out of the Modal window.

We look at:
– A recap of our Angular UI Customer Update Modal
– Locating the ‘ok’ and ‘cancel’ functions from the Angular UI documentation
– Adding the ‘ok’ and ‘cancel’ functions to the Update Modal instance
– Aligning our button details to our wireframes
– Adding the update function to the Customers Update Controller
– Adding a reference to the update function from the Update Modal
– Testing out our Model by updating customer details