Create a ChatApp from scratch and communicate with friends and family
This course includes:
- 4 hours on-demand video
- Full lifetime access
- Access on mobile and TV
- Certificate of completion
What you'll learn
- Setup a nodejs development environment
- Setup mongodb environment via mlab
- Create packagejson file
- Setup socketio
- Setup a model for mongodb
- Use mongoose to connect to mongodb
- Test http get and post request using postman
- Create functions
- Create callbacks
- Create get messages service
- Emit messages to clients
- Save data to mongodb
- Initialise git repository
- Create an heroku app
- Deploy app to heroku for hosting
- Check application logs on heroku
Description
Welcome to this course where will be building a real-time chat application that you can use to communicate with your friends and family using node ,express ,socketio and mongodb
Nodes is a platform built on the Chrome JavaScript run time that can help you build fast, Scalable network applications. Nodes uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient—perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
Socket.IO is a web library that enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication.
Express.js is a Node.js framework used in building nodejs applications
MongoDB—an open-source, document database—makes it easy to bring up an application stack and start coding.
Topics include:
Installing Nodejs
Installing Express
Installing Mongoose
Installing socketio
Setting up socketio
Serving static content with Express
Adding bootstrap and jQuery
Creating a get messages service
Creating a post services message
Emitting messages to clients
Setting up MongoDB using mLabConnecting your app to mLabSaving data to mongoDB
Initialising a git repository
Creating a hosting app on heroku
Tracking your app with git
Creating a model for mongoDB
Connecting with mongoose
Deploying application into Heroku cloud platform
Checking the logs for your app on Heroku platform
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