Learning Node.js for Mobile Application Development电子书

Learning Node.js for Mobile Application Development

Table of Contents

Learning Node.js for Mobile Application Development

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Setting Up Your Workspace

The Node.js backend

Installing Node.js on different systems

Windows

Linux

Ubuntu/Debian

Fedora/RHEL/CentOS

Verifying your installation

Mac OS X

Verifying your installation

Setting up the Ionic framework and Cordova for Mac OS X

Setting up the Ionic framework and Cordova for Windows

Setting up the platform dependencies

Installing Java

Setting up Android Studio for Android, Mac, and Windows

Setting up the Android Software Development Kit

Setting up your physical Android device for development

Enabling Developer options

Enabling USB debugging

Trusting a computer with installed IDE using secure USB debugging (devices with Android 4.4.2)

Setting up the Environment Variables on Windows 7 and higher

Setting up the Environment Variables for iOS on Mac OS X

Installing the iOS SDK

MongoDB

Installation of MongoDB on different Operating System

Windows

Linux

Ubuntu

Fedora/RHEL/CentOS

Starting MongoDB

Mac OS X

Connecting to MongoDB

Windows

Linux and OS X

Summary

2. Configuring Persistence with MongoDB

Learning outcomes of MongoDB

An introduction to MongoDB

Documents

Collections

Databases

An example – a product order database

Connecting to MongoDB

Linux and Mac OS X

Windows

Creating a database

Creating our collections

Creating relations between documents

Querying MongoDB

Searching by ID

Searching by property value

Advanced queries

Connecting MongoDB and Node.js

Setting up a basic project

Connecting to MongoDB

Summary

3. Creating an API

Learning outcomes of the RESTful API

RESTing easy

It's all hypermedia

GET

GET all

GET by ID

POST

PUT

DELETE

Building a RESTful API with Node.js

Setting up the RESTful API

The HTTP module

Dissecting the HTTP server

Returning JSON

Implementing our GET handlers

Implementing a router

Implementing our POST handlers

Implementing the DELETE and PUT handlers

Testing the API

Moving forward

Summary

4. Securing Your Backend

Understanding the outcomes of token-based authentication

The theoretical bit

A small token of trust

Playing your role

Putting it all together

Implementation

Adding the new collections

Adding an authentication module

Creating functions to register and help users log in

Registering users

Enabling users to log in

Extending our API

OAuth

Time-stamped access tokens

Hashing passwords

Summary

5. Real-Time Data and WebSockets

Polling

WebSockets

Using WebSockets in Node.js

Setting up our project

Installing socket.io

Creating a chat interface

A basic file server

An alternate chat

The efficient serving of static files

Summary

6. Introducing Ionic

Setting up your Ionic web account

Creating your first Ionic application

Checking out your Ionic applications with Ionic View

Installing Ionic View on Android

Installing Ionic View on iOS

Testing your application on the iOS Ionic View App

Testing your application on Android

Sharing your application with collaborators

Going further

Summary

7. Building User Interfaces

The structure of an Ionic project

Introducing AngularJS

The structure of an Angular app

Modules

Modules within modules within modules

Services, controllers, and other beasts

The Angular MVC pattern

The view

The controller

The model

Putting it all together

Modifying an Ionic project

Modifying the header

Modifying the tab colour, icons, and names

Modifying our pages

Adding a new tab

Creating a new controller

Creating a view

Adding a state for the new tab

Testing the newly created tab

Going further

Summary

8. Making Our App Interactive

Creating a new project

Creating a basic MVC project

Creating the view

Creating the list view

Creating the controller

Connecting the view and controller

Testing the connection

Creating the model

Services

Creating services

Creating a factory

Accessing the device data

Accessing native services

ngCordova

Adding Cordova contacts to our factory

Building for native devices

Android

Emulator

A physical device

The list view revisited

Summary

9. Accessing Native Phone Features

Creating the project

Creating the basic app structure

Integrating Google Maps into the app

Angular directives

Creating directives

Restricting directives

Scope isolation

DOM manipulation

Putting it all together

Adding geolocation via GPS

Summary

10. Working with APIs

Setting up Parse

Setting up the Ionic project

Connecting Parse to our project

Defining app states

Creating controllers and templates

Testing our application

Summary

11. Working with Security

An overview of client-side security

Client-side security is a convenience

The basic components of client-side security

Building a secure app

Starting off

A basic authentication service

The login function

The isAuthenticated function

The getCurrent function

Implementing route authentication

Summary

12. Working with Real-Time Data

A refresher – WebSockets

Getting the lay of the land

What we will need

Creating the server

Building the chat app

Setting up the basic app structure

The input section

The message view

The ChatService function

Adding WebSockets to the mix

Updating the chat view

Going further

Summary

13. Building an Advanced Chat App

We need some room!

Namespaces

Creating a multiroom chat application

Configuring the basic layout

Building the server

Summary

14. Creating an E-Commerce Application Using the Ionic Framework

Designing our application

Creating an Ionic project

Implementing our designs

Setting up the product API

Connecting the product API to our Ionic app

Summary

Index