Short Description
Create a ChatApp from scratch and communicate with friends and family
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
This course includes:
- 4 hours on-demand video
- Full lifetime access
- Access on mobile and TV
- Certificate of completion
Requirements
- You should be able to use a PC at beginner level
- Basic HTML knowledge
- Basic CSS knowledge
- Basic JavaScript knowledge
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 mLab
- Connecting your app to mLab
- Saving 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
Who this course is for:
- Beginners to Nodejs
- Beginners to socketio
- Beginners to mongoDB
- Anyone who wants to learn how to build a chatapp
Recommended: Microsoft Azure course