Full Stack JavaScript Development With MEAN

Chapter 6Building the Node Server

We’ve covered everything you need to dive into creating a real Node server in the preceding chapters. This chapter will focus on building a subset of the Node server for the human resources application we’re using to demonstrate the MEAN stack.

Server Plan

Before you start writing any code, you need to have a basic idea of what your web server should do. For this subset example, our server will need to do two tasks: view employee information as a list, and for an individual. The server must also be able to send static resources such as CSS, client-side JavaScript, images, and HTML files. We should strive to make the various employee resources RESTful rather than use SOAP/WSDL. As we delve further into the development ...