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.