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Playing Nice with the MEAN Stack

By Leila Adams

@thatgirlcancode

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agenda•What is MEAN

•Why use it

•Tools

•Demo

•vNext

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Microsoft MEAN

C# JavaScript

Views & Razor Vash

ASP.NET MVC & Web API Express

IIS Node.exe

SQL Server MongoDB / Edge.js + SQL Server

SQL JavaScript

Entity Framework Mongoose

Nuget Package Manager Node Package Manager / Bower

MSBuild Grunt

MSTest / NUnit Mocha / Jasmine

SignalR Socket I/O

associations

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why use MEAN?• High concurrency

• Real-time solution

• Minimal configuration; rapid prototyping

• No build/compile time

• Fetching lots of data

• Not doing a lot of CPU intensive stuff

• General purpose

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tools•Node.exe

•Node.js Tools for Visual Studio

•TypeScript

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demo•Node.js Tools

•NPM

•Express

•Vash

•Private module

•Real project

•MongoDB

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Angular ControllerhomeController.js

Angular ServicevendorService.js

ViewIndex.vash

Node Api ControllervendorsApiController.js

MongoDBdatabase.js & vendors.js

Node BusinessvendorBusiness.js

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Current .NET MEAN vNext

C# JavaScript C#

Views & Razor Vash Views & Razor

ASP.NET MVC & Web API Express ASP.NET MVC 6

IIS Node.exe IIS

Entity Framework Mongoose Entity Framework

Nuget Pkg Manager Node Pkg Manager / Bower Nuget Pkg Manager / KPM

Packages.config Package.json Project.json

MSBuild Grunt Roslyn

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resources•http://www.asp.net/vnext/overview/aspnet-vnext

•http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/05/12/the-next-generation-of-net-asp-net-vnext.aspx

•http://pluralsight.com• Node.js for .NET Developer by Shawn Wildermuth• Introduction to MongoDB by Nuri Halperin• Building AngularJS & Node.js Apps with the MEAN Stack by Joe Eames

•092 JavaScript Jabber: The MEAN Stack with Ward Bell & Valeri Karpov

•Express Web Application Development by Hage Yaapa

•NoSQL Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence by Sadalage & Fowler

•Channel 9: ASP.NET vNext 101 with Damian Edwards and David Fowler

•http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2014/06/17/dependency-injection-in-asp-net-vnext.aspx

•http://www.joyent.com/blog/joyent-partners-with-ms-to-port-node-js-to-windows

•http://www.hanselman.com/blog/InstallingAndRunningNodejsApplicationsWithinIISOnWindowsAreYouMad.aspx

Special thanks to @elylucas and @mike_filbin