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Web Development with MongoDB and Node

You're reading from   Web Development with MongoDB and Node Build fast web applications for handling any kind of data

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788395083
Length 330 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Bruno Joseph D'mello Bruno Joseph D'mello
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Jason Krol Jason Krol
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
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Preface
1. Welcome to JavaScript in the Full Stack FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Up and Running 3. Node and MongoDB Basics 4. Introducing Express 5. Templating with Handlebars 6. Controllers and View Models 7. Persisting Data with MongoDB 8. Creating a RESTful API 9. Testing Your Code 10. Deploying with Cloud-Based Services 11. Popular Node.js Web Frameworks 12. Single Page Applications with Popular Frontend Frameworks

Iterating on the UI


Now that we have our application working fairly well and can actually interact with it, it's time to step back and take a look at some of the areas we might be able to improve.

One area is the Post Comment form on the image page. I don't think it's necessary that this form is always visible, but instead it should be made available only when someone actually wants to post a comment.

Additionally, I'd love the Like button to not have to post a full form submission to the server and cause the entire page to reload (just as the form on the home page does when it uploads an image). We will use jQuery to submit an AJAX call to the server to handle the likes and send and retrieve data in real time without ever reloading the page.

To make these tweaks, we will need to introduce a small amount of JavaScript on the page to add a little interactivity. To make things even easier, we'll use the popular jQuery JavaScript library to make creating interactive features a breeze.

The jQuery...

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