Shama Hoque - Full-Stack React Projects: Modern web development using React 16, Node, Express, and MongoDB

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Shama Hoque has 8 years of experience as a software developer and mentor, with a masters in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

From Java programming to full-stack development with JavaScript, the applications she has worked on include national Olympiad registration websites, universally accessible widgets, video conferencing apps, and medical 3D reconstruction software.

Currently, she makes web-based prototypes for R&D start-ups in California, while training aspiring software engineers and teaching web development to CS undergrads in Bangladesh.

Sai Kishore Komanduri does software architecture and engineering at MGRM NET, where he leads a team of engineers building e-governance enterprise applications.

Prior to this, he was a software engineer and developer evangelist at Hashnode, a premier social network for software developers, where he worked across the whole breadth of Hashnode's MERN tech stack.

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This book explores the potential of developing full-stack JavaScript web applications by combining the power of React with industry tested server-side technologies, such as Node, Express, and MongoDB. The JavaScript landscape has been growing rapidly for some time now. With an abundance of options and resources available on this subject matter, it is easy to get lost when you need to choose from these frequently changing parts, learn about them, and make them work together to build your own web applications. In an attempt to address this pain point, the book adopts a practical approach to help you set up and build a diverse range of working applications using this popular JavaScript stack.

This book is aimed at JavaScript developers who may have some experience with React, but no previous experience with full-stack development involving Node, Express, and MongoDB, and who want practical guidelines to start building different types of web applications with this stack.

, Unleashing React Applications with MERN , introduces the MERN stack technologies and the applications developed in this book. We will discuss the context and relevance of developing web applications with React, Node, Express, and MongoDB.

, Preparing the Development Environment , helps set up the MERN stack technologies for development. We will explore essential development tools, install Node, MongoDB, Express, React, and other required libraries, and then run code to check the setup.

, Building a Backend with MongoDB, Express, and Node , implements the backend of a skeleton MERN application. We will build a standalone server-side application with MongoDB, Express, and Node, which stores user details and has APIs for user authentication and CRUD operations.

, Adding a React Frontend to Complete MERN , completes the MERN skeleton application by integrating a React frontend. We will implement a working frontend with React views for interacting with the user CRUD and auth APIs on the server.