NodeJS - The Complete Web Developer Bootcamp 2024

Node is the JavaScript runtime that lets you run JavaScript on the server, enabling full‑stack development across client, server, and databases, and you’ll learn how to install Node and npm.

Learn what npm is, a node package manager that lets you search for and install libraries with npm install, automatically creating node_modules to streamline dependencies in node applications.

install node on mac using direct download or homebrew, follow the setup wizard, verify with node -v, and prepare to build your first node app in the next lecture.

Create a new node project with npm init and set up a basic server on port 3000. Run it with node and visit localhost:3000 to see Hello world.

Discover how express sits on top of node to run JavaScript on the server, enabling quick setup of web servers that respond with JSON, HTML, or other content.

Initialize a node project, install express with npm install express, create a main file, and run a basic express app on port 3000.

Install nodemon globally with npm install -g nodemon, then run nodemon to automatically restart your express server as you save changes. This eliminates manual restarts and speeds up development.

Create a simple express get route that returns hello world, run the server on port 3000, and explore routing with parameters and nested routes using get and post.

Explore node express routes as endpoints, using examples like /, /customers, and /customers/24; learn how GET and POST on the same route map to different functions, with the domain ignored.

Set up a node express server and build basic routes like the root and a movies route. Use dynamic route parameters to handle genre and year with a single route.

Learn to implement dynamic parameters in express routes, access genre and year with request.params, and build flexible routes like /movies/genre/year while contrasting static vs dynamic segments.

Learn how to pass data in the URL using query string parameters in Express, access with request.query, and use keys like page or sort to enable searching, filtering, and sorting.

Create an anonymous movie object with title and year, convert to json, and send back an express response; also return an array of movie objects as json.

Learn how a post request lets the client submit form or json data to the server to create new content or a new record in a database.

Implement a post route in Express to receive movie title and year via json body, test with Postman, and use body-parser to read request bodies.

Explore how server side pages are rendered on the server and sent pre-filled to the client, so the browser displays a ready-made page and explore frameworks across languages.

Explore server side pages frameworks and technologies, including S.P. Darknet technology, Ruby Unreal framework, Django, Swift on the server, and PSP, plus template engines in Node Express.

Explore popular template engines for Node Express, including Mustache and Handlebars, and learn how a single template concept carries across engines, enabling rapid setup of the first Mustache page.

Set up a node project with express and mustache express, install packages, configure mustache templates, create a mustache views folder, and render a hello world page.

Pass data from an Express server to mustache templates by rendering with an object of properties (name, address) and displaying values with double curly braces, including nesting.

Demonstrates passing a list of user objects from an Express server to Mustache pages, iterating with a Mustache loop to display each user's name and age in a list.

Learn to implement conditions in mustache pages by displaying a message when no users exist and preparing to add a new user via a form in the next lecture.

Create a mustache add-user page with name and age fields and a submit button to post data. See how the server receives form values and why body-parser is needed next.

Learn to install and use the body parts package with express to parse urlencoded and json bodies, using extended false for flat structures like name and age.

Learn how partials improve maintainability by extracting the common menu into a mustache partial, so all pages reflect changes automatically and you register the partials in a Node Express app.

Practice creating and using partials with Mustache to reuse the menu, the header, and the footer across pages, avoid code duplication, and enable single-point updates.

Understand static files, which remain unchanged during execution in a Node Express app, and learn to set up JavaScript, images, CSS, music, and movie files.

Create a static resources folder, add files, and link them in your views; register the folder with express to serve static resources and test access via root or alias routes.

Implement an Express router to handle user routes by creating and exporting a router, mounting it at /users, and defining get and post handlers for user actions.

Explore what middleware is in Node.js, how it sits between request and response, and how to create middleware to perform authentication, logging, or header changes before Express handles the response.

Learn how to create custom middleware in express to log every route, apply it across all routes with app.use, and ensure next() advances the request.