Build a To-Do API With Node, Express, and MongoDB

API stands for Application Programming Interface. APIs allow the creation of an application to access features of an application or service. Building APIs with Node is very easy. Yes, you heard me right! In this tutorial, you will be building a To-Do API.

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5 Database Alerts to Set Up for MongoDB

What’s happening inside your database can have a huge impact on your application and your customers’ happiness. In this post, we’ll talk through some of the things you need to look out for to keep your MongoDB deployment on track.

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The Modern Application Stack – Part 3: Building a REST API Using Express.js

This is the third in a series of blog posts examining the technologies that are driving the development of modern web and mobile applications. Part 1: Introducing The MEAN Stack (and the young MERN upstart) introduced the technologies making up the MEAN (MongoDB, Express, Angular, Node.

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Microservices: An Example With Docker, Go, and MongoDB

"Cinema" is an example project which demonstrates the use of microservices for a fictional movie theater. The Cinema backend is powered by for microservices, all of which happen to be written in Go, using MongoDB for manage the database and Docker to isolate and deploy the ecosystem.

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Let's build a URL Shortener with Node, MongoDB and Hapi.js

Have you ever wonder how URL shorteners like bit.ly or goo.gl work? Well, we're going to actually build a simple shortener so you can learn how it's done and get accustomed to technologies like Hapi.js (API Framework made by Walmart) and MongoLab (MongoDB database as a service).

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Caching in MongoDB With Redis Using Spring Boot

Today, performance is one of the most important metrics we need to evaluate when developing a web service/Application. Keeping customers engaged is critical to any product and for this reason, it is extremely important to improve the performances and reduce page load times.

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MongoDB — Design of Product Catalog Documents Structure

In this article, we will look at a product catalog database design and its associations. The diagram below explains the entities involved and their associations. Let me justify the above entities associations, as MongoDB has an embedded document approach and refers one document to another document.

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MongoDB and MEAN NoSQL Presentations

MongoDB is the leading NoSQL database in the market today. It is also so popular that it ranks above a number of SQL databases and is very wide spread. For those who could not attend MongoDB World 2015 in NYC, you can check out all the presentations here.

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Using GraphQL with MongoDB: graffiti-mongoose

With the Mongoose adapter for Graffiti, you can use your existing Mongoose schema for developing a GraphQL application. If you need an introduction to GraphQL, our previous post helps you to get started with GraphQL. At RisingStack, we usually don't write boilerplate code.

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Full-Text Search in MongoDB

MongoDB, one of the leading NoSQL databases, is well known for its fast performance, flexible schema, scalability and great indexing capabilities.

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Making MEAN Apps with Google Maps (Part II)

Welcome back! Last time, we created an application that integrated Google Maps directly into the MEAN stack. The app provided us a panel to create users, tag their location based on latitude and longitude, and validate their whereabouts using HTML5 geolocation.

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Make A Real-Time Chat Room using Node Webkit, Socket.io, and MEAN

Development folks work tirelessly to make building programs as easy as possible. The JavaScript, Web and Mobile app developers communities increased drastically since Node and Cordova were introduced.

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Open Source CMS Built on Node.js and MongoDB

Apostrophe is a design-driven, in-context CMS built on Node.js and MongoDB. It provides the tools to develop both simple and complex content-driven websites through simple templating and modular functionality.

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Deploying a MEAN App to Amazon EC2 (Part 2)

Welcome back. In Part I of our tutorial, we took steps to deploy a MEAN application to EC2. In the process, we created a running EC2 instance, configured our security settings, made a connection, and set our application to run.

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Deploying a MEAN App to Amazon EC2 (Part 1)

As someone who has trudged through many tutorials on the MEAN development stack, I’ve built many demo applications using some variation of localhost. Yet, when time came for me to move onto real-world deployments, I had a much tougher time finding guides straightforward enough to follow.

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Handling User Authentication With the MEAN Stack

This post provides a solution to the question, "How do I handle user authentication with the MEAN Stack - MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, NodeJS?". Much of this post is ported from Handling User Authentication with Angular and Flask.

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Use MongoDB with a Node.js Application on Heroku

On this blog post I’ll use a JS MVC ToDo List to show you step by step how to deploy an application using Node.js with Express and Mongoose on Heroku. There many ToDo app examples over there.

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Running a MEAN web application in Docker containers on AWS

The rate of adoption of Docker as a containerized solution is soaring. A lot of companies are now using Docker containers to run apps. In a lot of scenarios, using Docker containers can be a better approach than spinning up a full-blown virtual machine.

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Location Based Content With a MEAN Stack and Contentful

At We Are Living, we spent quite a bit of time playing with iBeacons, HTML geolocation and new mapping technologies. After discovering a generous selection of tools for working with location based data, we decided to build Leeds Living, a digital city guide with a focus on location and real-time data.

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Call me maybe: MongoDB stale reads

In May of 2013, we showed that MongoDB 2.4.3 would lose acknowledged writes at all consistency levels. Every write concern less than MAJORITY loses data by design due to rollbacks–but even WriteConcern.

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