Sharma - Full-Stack Web Development with Vue.js and Node: Build scalable and powerful web apps with modern web stack: MongoDB, Vue, Node.js, and Express

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Aneeta Sharma is a software engineer from Kathmandu, Nepal who has been in the tech industry for more than seven years. She started her career as a Web Designer, before becoming a PHP Developer and then a Ruby on Rails engineer. She has been working on both frontend and backend aspects of web application development since she started her career and has been developing web applications professionally since 2009.

She likes to explore new technologies and has learned to work with lots of them over the years. Most recently, she has been working with full-stack solutions with Ruby on Rails, along with frontend frameworks such as Vue.js and React.js.

Anton de Regt is a programmer and blogger with a passion for making life better, faster, and easier. After graduating with a bachelors degree in Embedded Systems and Automation, he worked in the Netherlands, China, and the USA as a programmer and database admin. Anton now develops apps for small business owners to help them focus on the things that matter and make their impact bigger.

On his tech blog, he writes about a variety of subjects, ranging from cybersecurity and data science, to hackathons and socially responsible programming.

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JavaScript has become one of the most important languages of today and tomorrow.
The rise of JavaScript in the past few years has been so drastic that it has become a powerful language in the development of modern web applications.

MEVN is one of the stacks for developing modern web applications in addition to MEAN and MERN. This book provides a step by step way of building a full-stack web application using the technology in MEVN, which is MongoDB, Express.js, Vue.js, and Node.js.

The book will provide the basic concepts of Node.js and MongoDB, continuing with building an Express.js application and implementing Vue.js.

In this book, we'll cover the following things:

• Learning about the technology stackMongoDB, Node.js, Express.js, and Vue.js
• Building an Express.js application
• Learning what REST APIs are and how to implement them
• Learning to use Vue.js as the frontend layer in the Express.js application
• Adding an authentication layer in the application
• Adding the automation scripts and tests

This book is designed for web developers who are interested in learning how to build a full-stack application with only one programming language as JavaScript using the technology stack: Mongo DB, Express.js, Vue.js, and Node.js.

This book is suitable for beginners and intermediate developers with a basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. If you are a web or full-stack JavaScript developer JavaScript developer and has tried hands on the traditional stacks, such as LAMP, MEAN, or MERN, and wish to explore a new stack with modern web technologies, then this book is for you.

, Introduction to MEVN, gives an introduction to the MEVN stack and the installation of different tools required to build the foundation for the application.