Lim G. Beginning MERN Stack: Build and Deploy a Full Stack MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js App

Greg Lim, 2021. — 136 p.In this book, we take you on a fun, hands-on and pragmatic journey to learning MERN stack development. You'll start building your first MERN stack app within minutes. Every chapter is written in a bite-sized manner and straight to the point as I don’t want to waste your time (and most certainly mine) on the content you don't need. In the end, you will have the skills to create a Movies review app and deploy it to the Internet.In the course of this book, we will cover:MongoDB Overview
Setting Up MongoDB Atlas Cloud Database
Adding Sample Data
Setting Up Our Node.js, Express Backend
Creating Our Backend Server
Creating The Movies Data Access Object
Creating The Movies Controller
Testing Our Backend API
Leaving Movie Reviews
Testing The Reviews API
Route To Get A Single Movie And Its Ratings
Introduction To React
Create Navigation Header Bar
Defining Our Routes
MovieDataService: Connecting To The Backend
MoviesList Component
Movie Component
Listing Reviews
Adding And Editing Reviews
Deleting A Review
Get Next Page’s Results
Get Next Page’s Results – Search By Title And Rating
Deploying Backend On Heroku
Hosting And Deploying Our React Frontend
The goal of this book is to teach you MERN stack development in a manageable way without overwhelming you. We focus only on the essentials and cover the material in a hands-on practice manner for you to code along.Working Through This Book
This book is purposely broken down into short chapters where the development process of each chapter will center on different essential topics. The book takes a practical hands on approach to learning through practice. You learn best when you code along with the examples in the book.Requirements
No previous knowledge on Node.js or React development is required, but you should have basic programming knowledge. It will be a helpful advantage if you could read through my Node, Express book and React book first which will provide you will better insight and deeper knowledge into the various technologies. But even if you have not done so, you should still be able to follow along.