jaimehf/w4d2

Yesterday - day w4d1

• Retrospective about module I
• ES6 refresh
• Node basics
• A bit of talk about client - server communication

Activities

• More on koans
• Mocha unit testing

Today - day w4d2

• Talk about NPM
• Talk about nosql vs sql databases
• Basic CRUD operations
• Basics about web servers and basic implementation of Express

Activities

• Review over Mongo queries
• Develop a basic website using Express

Next - day w4d3

• Work with server side templating
• Using database helper libraries like Mongoose

Goals

• Understand how databases provide a persistence layer
• Mount a basic Express
• Get to install cool dependencies using NPM
• Understand where these components fit in the back end schema

Bonus

Query operators summary in Mongo https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/operator/query/

More on SQL vs Non SQL databases https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS_kXvOeQ5Y

ORMs vs ODMs https://medium.com/@julianam.tyler/what-is-the-difference-between-odm-and-orm-267bbb7778b0