The Best MERN Stack Books of All Time

In this book, we take you on a fun, hands-on and pragmatic journey to learning MERN stack development. You'll start building your first MERN 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: IntroductionChapter 2: MongoDB OverviewChapter 3: Setting Up MongoDB Atlas Cloud DatabaseChapter 4: Adding Sample DataChapter 5: Setting Up Our Node.

js, Express BackendChapter 6: Creating Our Backend ServerChapter 7: Creating The Movies Data Access ObjectChapter 8: Creating The Movies ControllerChapter 9: Testing Our Backend APIChapter 10: Leaving Movie ReviewsChapter 11: Testing The Reviews APIChapter 12: Route To Get A Single Movie And Its RatingsChapter 13: Introduction To ReactChapter 14: Create Navigation Header BarChapter 15: Defining Our RoutesChapter 16: MovieDataService: Connecting To The BackendChapter 17: MoviesList ComponentChapter 18: Movie ComponentChapter 19: Listing ReviewsChapter 21: Adding And Editing ReviewsChapter 22: Deleting A ReviewChapter 23: Get Next Page’s ResultsChapter 24: Get Next Page’s Results – Search By Title And RatingChapter 25: Deploying Backend On HerokuChapter 26: Hosting And Deploying Our React Frontend. The goal of this book is to teach you MERN 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. Working Through This Book. 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. Requirements. No previous knowledge on Node.js or React development is required, but you should have basic programming knowledge. It will be a helpful advantage if you could read through my Node, Express book and React book first which will provide you will better insight and deeper knowledge into the various technologies. But even if you have not done so, you should still be able to follow along.

A practical, project-based guide to full-stack JavaScript web development combining the power of React with industry-tested server-side technologies. Key Features. Build your career as a full-stack developer with this practical guideUnderstand how the different aspects of a MERN application come together through a series of practical projectsMaster the MERN stack by building robust social media, E-commerce store, and web-based VR game appsBook Description.

Facebook's React combined with industry-tested, server-side technologies, such as Node, Express, and MongoDB, enables you to develop and deploy robust real-world full-stack web apps. This updated second edition focuses on the latest versions and conventions of the technologies in this stack, along with their new features such as Hooks in React and async/await in JavaScript. The book also explores advanced topics such as implementing real-time bidding, a web-based classroom app, and data visualization in an expense tracking app. Full-Stack React Projects will take you through the process of preparing the development environment for MERN stack-based web development, creating a basic skeleton app, and extending it to build six different web apps. You'll build apps for social media, classrooms, media streaming, online marketplaces with real-time bidding, and web-based games with virtual reality features. Throughout the book, you'll learn how MERN stack web development works, extend its capabilities for complex features, and gain actionable insights into creating MERN-based apps, along with exploring industry best practices to meet the ever-increasing demands of the real world. By the end of this React book, you'll be able to build production-ready MERN full-stack apps using advanced tools and techniques in modern web development. What you will learn. Extend a basic MERN-based application to build a variety of applicationsAdd real-time communication capabilities with Socket.IOImplement data visualization features for React applications using VictoryDevelop media streaming applications using MongoDB GridFSImprove SEO for your MERN apps by implementing server-side rendering with dataImplement user authentication and authorization using JSON web tokensSet up and use React 360 to develop user interfaces with VR capabilitiesMake your MERN stack applications reliable and scalable with industry best practicesWho this book is for. This is one of the most useful web development books for JavaScript developers who may have worked with React but have minimal experience in full-stack development with Node, Express, and MongoDB.

In this book, we take you on a fun, hands-on and pragmatic journey to learning MERN stack development. You'll start building your first MERN 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: IntroductionChapter 2: MongoDB OverviewChapter 3: Setting Up MongoDB Atlas Cloud DatabaseChapter 4: Adding Sample DataChapter 5: Setting Up Our Node.

js, Express BackendChapter 6: Creating Our Backend ServerChapter 7: Creating The Movies Data Access ObjectChapter 8: Creating The Movies ControllerChapter 9: Testing Our Backend APIChapter 10: Leaving Movie ReviewsChapter 11: Testing The Reviews APIChapter 12: Route To Get A Single Movie And Its RatingsChapter 13: Introduction To ReactChapter 14: Create Navigation Header BarChapter 15: Defining Our RoutesChapter 16: MovieDataService: Connecting To The BackendChapter 17: MoviesList ComponentChapter 18: Movie ComponentChapter 19: Listing ReviewsChapter 21: Adding And Editing ReviewsChapter 22: Deleting A ReviewChapter 23: Get Next Page's ResultsChapter 24: Get Next Page's Results - Search By Title And RatingChapter 25: Deploying Backend On HerokuChapter 26: Hosting And Deploying Our React Frontend The goal of this book is to teach you MERN 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. Working Through This BookThis 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. RequirementsNo previous knowledge on Node.js or React development is required, but you should have basic programming knowledge. It will be a helpful advantage if you could read through my Node, Express book and React book first which will provide you will better insight and deeper knowledge into the various technologies. But even if you have not done so, you should still be able to follow along.