node-shop

An online shop created with Node.js, Express.js & Mongoose, following along with NodeJS - The Complete Guide

What I've learned in this project

Node.js Basics

Efficient Development

• npm, nodemon, debugging a Node application

Express.js

Templating Engines

• Pug, Handlebars, EJS

MVC

• Theory/principles of the pattern

Advanced Routes & Models

• Dynamic routing, defining and creating better models

SQL & MySQL

• Querying a database within a Node application

Sequelize & MySQL

• Benefits of ORM's

NoSQL & MongoDB

• Experimenting with a non-relational database

Mongoose & MongoDB

• Rewrote my application to use this

Sessions & Cookies

• Express-session, setting, manipulating and configuring cookies

Authentication

• Signup & Login, Bcrypt, CSRF tokens, Password reset (& reset token expiry)

Sending E-Mails

• Nodemailer & SendGrid

User Input Validation & Sanitisation

• Express-validator

Error Handling

• Throwing Error objects so that our errorController can handle these

File Uploads & Downloads

• Multer, createWriteStream/createReadStream, PDFKit

Pagination

• Implemented using skip and limit

Async Requests

• Experimenting with client-side asynchronous code for deleting products

Handling Payments

• Using Stripe

Deployment

• Environment Variables, production API keys, reduce error output information, secure response headers, asset compression, logging, SSL/TLS

Node JS Functionality Beyond Web Servers