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💚 Full-stack Node - Complete Guide

This repository includes notes I made while creating a full-stack online store template with node.js to understand better the history of web frontend and how to use node.js as a backend with local, SQL and NoSQL databases. For frontend, the project uses node.js with ejs templating engine. This approach was a common approach to build websites before REST APIs decoupled frontend and backend into separate independent entities and frontend frameworks like Vue/Angular/React took over.

The main idea is to use MVC approach:

• controllers represent the logic of node app in js; they connect views and models, include database actions, and render views
• views are what user sees, written in HTML and templating engine language (ejs, handlebars, pug etc)
• models data representation (classes/schemas)

Features

Client

• 🔒 Authentication
• ➕ Add product to cart
• 🗑️ Delete product from cart
• 👁️ View product details
• 🛒 View cart
• 💳 Make order
• 🧾 noteView orders
• ✉️ Receive welcome email after signup

Admin

• 🔒 Authentication
• ➕ Add products
• ✏️ Edit products
• 🗑️ Delete products

Table of contents

Passing data between routes

• Dynamic routing

Storing data

• Database option 1: Local JSON database
• Database option 2: MySQL (SQL)
• Database option 3: MongoDB (NoSQL)

Authentication

• Cookies & Sessions
• Password encryption - bcrypt
• Protecting from CSRF - csurf

Sending emails - SendGrid