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.
I’ll show you my approach to web design, with my first sketches for a new project that I’m working on. A requirements sketch, and some first wonky wire frames.
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!
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
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.
In this video we’ll start to set-up our AngularJS Create Customer Modal. We’ll begin by turning our create customer view into a Modal window, and get it to popup using the ‘New Customer’ button.
We look at:
– The current create customer view
– Changing the top and bottom of the create customer view to align it with the update customer modal
– Changing our references to refer to the customer create controller
– Changing the controller alias references on the new Create Modal buttons
– Setting up the Create Customer Controller by reusing the existing create function and changing it up
– Using the code for the update customer modal directive as a template to create a new create customer modal directive.
– Adding a reference to our new Modal from the Customer List ‘Create Customer’ button
– Opening up our new Create Customer Modal
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.
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
I had so much fun mentoring at NodeBots day in Melbourne! I got to meet a great bunch of people from such diverse backgrounds, and all with a love for learning and experimenting. The day started off with registrations. We got to the venue just before 10am, and people were already lining up, so the registration process […]
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).
I’ve been playing around with Angular Material a lot lately, and I’ve been really impressed with how easy it is to create pretty web apps, (once you get the hang of it).
There are so many cool things that I’d like to share, but I don’t know where to begin! So in this video, I’ll take you through my latest side project, and show you the types of things that are possible.
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.