Beginning Vue Stack: Build and Deploy a Full Stack MongoDB, Express, Vue.js, Node.js App

In this book, we take you on a fun, hands-on and pragmatic journey to learning MEVN stack development. You'll start building your first MEVN 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:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: MongoDB Overview
• Chapter 3: Setting Up MongoDB Atlas Cloud Database
• Chapter 4: Adding Sample Data
• Chapter 5: Setting Up Our Node.js, Express Backend
• Chapter 6: Creating Our Backend Server
• Chapter 7: Creating the Movies Data Access Object
• Chapter 8: Creating the Movies Controller
• Chapter 9: Testing Our Backend API
• Chapter 10: Leaving Movie Reviews
• Chapter 11: Testing the Reviews API
• Chapter 12: Route to Get a Single Movie and Its Ratings
• Chapter 13: Introduction to Vue
• Chapter 14: Create Header and Footer Bar
• Chapter 15: Defining Our Routes
• Chapter 16: ‘About’ View and Linter
• Chapter 17: Movie and Review Services: Connecting to the Backend
• Chapter 18: Movies View with Dummy Data
• Chapter 19: Movies View with API Data
• Chapter 20: Movie View
• Chapter 21: Listing Reviews
• Chapter 22: Login System
• Chapter 23: Login View
• Chapter 24: Adding Reviews
• Chapter 25: Editing and Deleting Reviews
• Chapter 26: Get Next and Previous Page’s Results
• Chapter 27: Deploying Backend on Heroku
• Chapter 28: Hosting and Deploying Our Vue Frontend

The goal of this book is to teach you MEVN 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.

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.