I have a question regarding creating a front-end for a nest-js API:
Will this front-end be an entirely different project with regards to folder structure?
Will it just 'call' the services from my API?
How are my controllers of the API used, if the front-end just uses the services directly?
Also, in what order does it make sense to create the front-end prior to auth? Or should it be the other way around.
Thanks
You can create separate project for frontend app, or you could return HTML directly from nest. This depends on what you want.
https://docs.nestjs.com/techniques/mvc
If you go for server side rendering (the MVC link above), then your code will have direct access to your nest services. If you go for SPA approach (angular, react, vue, ...), then you will have to call your nest API via http, so you will have access only via your API endpoints.
I guess this one is answer already - for SSR approach, you will have endpoints that return the HTML. You could combine both approaches, having group of controllers working as REST API, and another group for SSR, that will return JSON response.
About the auth - I guess you should implement the backend first, then you can implement frontend so you can test it.
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can anybody knows how to implement next JS in symfony.Please tell me steps in detail.I have search a lot but haven't find any solution
I have tried Next js in symfony.
I'm using the same stack, Symfony as Backend API, and Next.js in the frontend, that's the only way, of course you will use them both in the same directory.
Use, the React routing of Next.js and Pages/ directory for the front end.
Create your entity using doctrine, and then you can use both:
Calling Backend endpoints for fetching data and hydrate with GetStaticProps()
Using Prisma directly to fetch data in the Frontend.
there is hundreds of choices for each operation.
Though, the complexity I'm facing now is securing the communications, with CSRF for forms and JWT for requests, I'll provide a solution when I find one
I've created the frontend of various apps by using React where I was fetching data from some REST API someone else had created.
Regarding Node I've only used it once, in that occasion I did not use any frontend framework just vanilla JS and jQuery, and I was doing server-side rendering of the pages.
Now I want to create a simple MERN application and I am not completely sure that I'm aware of all the choices regarding the combination of frontend and backend and which one should be used when.
It would be really helpful if I could see a complete list of all the possible ways React and Node can be combined to create a full app.
If you are using front-end frameworks you use backend servers as an API. Like if you use React framework you use axios to handle http requests to your node js (express) server. But if you are using vanilla js, ejs and using server side rendering you can directly render views from your server. In case of react you can use next.js.
I'm thinking about making something with the MEAN stack. I need a way to edit the content of the site, like e.g. Wordpress offers (basically a CMS).
The confusing bit is how the CMS and Angular would work together. I've looked at a CMS named Keystone, and there you have to set up some routing etc. in Node. Won't this crash with the routing you set up in Angluar?
In other CMSs I've used, the creation of the views happens on the server side. In Angular, as far as I understand, you crate a HTML template, which you can populate with data in an angular controller. This also seems like something that could crash between CMSs and Angular. Is this the case?
Is there any other quirks or similar about Angular and content managment systems I should know about, or is it usually not much problems integrating the two?
meanjs.org has a pretty good approach to this. Install meanjs. It comes with a sigin/signup and even allows you to create articles from the vanilla install.
Put simply, when you are creating a web app with the MEAN stack, think of AngularJS as "THE" app, and node.js as the api.
If you approach building your web app as a javascript application (AngularJS), that happens to get its data from an server api (node.js), then you will begin to understand how to properly use the MEAN stack.
First: Angular will have the routes defined in the $routeProvider. Build the routing urls in AngularJS first. They are "THE" routes for your web app. A good way to look at it is to build the AngularJS portion with the ability to change your api server, even to another language (PHP, python, go, etc) if necessary.
Second: Build your AngularJS to communicate to the api with $resource. Essentially a $resource is an easy way to call out to an api using restful routing. This "restful routing" is now the routing that needs to be "mimicked/copied" into the routing for the node.js routes.
Often the AngularJS routes (the url) will match the $resource routing that matches the node.js routing.
Again, take a look at meanjs.org and you will have a better understanding on how to properly organize what "seems like" (and actually are) two separate apps.
Basically, you need three sets of routes (or two if you are doing it on the cheap).
Start out with a set of routes on the server that return regular webpages. Forget about JavaScript. Do not involve Angular at this stage.
Second, add another set of routes on the server which return data in a rawer form (such as JSON). This would typically be a RESTful API.
Third, add Angular to the client. When the view needs to be updated, update the URL in the browser and use Ajax to hit the RESTful API to get the data needed to populate it. (You want the URL you set the address bar to to match the URL of the page from the first set of routes that you are duplicating with JS and the data from the RESTful route).
If you are doing it on the cheap, like Gawker did, then you would skip the first set of routes and go direct to the JS+REST approach.
I think you need CMS on MEAN stack development environment.
there are some cms on mean stack you can try.
PancilBlue
Calipso
try this.
I was trying something similar, I found this link very useful AngularJsCMS It has told about free respond cms which is based on angularjs and have the ability to create pages like wordpress and manage contents.
We have been working on a project using angular and keystonejs. Simply serve the default template layout found in keystone and inject the data-ng-view tag within the body tag. Serve this template for all requests to '/'.
Then write your angular app normally to consume endpoints. These endpoints can be done in keystone using the api middleware. In the routes/index.js file add a key/value pair in the routes object with the name of your custom endpoint then import the folder containing your endpoint function definitions.
var routes = {
views: importRoutes('./views'),
api: importRoutes('./api')
};
exports = module.exports = function(app) {
app.get('/api/posts', keystone.middleware.api, routes.api.post.index);}
I recently migrated my blog over to MEANie - a lightweight custom MEAN Stack CMS that I developed.
I made it open source for anyone to use and posted details and setup instructions on my blog at http://jasonwatmore.com/meanie.
I've come across a lot of posts on Stack Overflow about Express.js being used with Angular.js and how there are two MVC components to both the client and back-end sides of the web application, but I've just become confused now. What are the components of a web application, and what does each of these two serve? What are the MVC parts for each of the client and back-end sides exactly?
Thanks in advance for any response!
In most cases, it's pretty straight forward. In my applications, it generally works like this:
Express.js provides the backend REST API
Express.js serves up the static HTML, JavaScript, CSS and image assets.
The frontend HTML/Javascript bits are written using Angular.js.
I tend not to use any of Express.js' view capabilities (the stuff that provides functionality similar to ruby on rails or Django, with templating and all that), but instead serve up a single index.html and then let Angular.js do the rest. It's very possible/typical to make an Angular.js app which has only one main HTML file and therefore the "view" pieces of express are unneeded.
Angular.js itself is structured in an MVC fashion. You have view templates and controllers which provide data to them and handle events from user interaction. The data the controllers act on from comes from the model. The model is simply a layer providing access to the API provided by the Express.js backend. This is typically done using Angular.js resources.
RESTify is another alternative to express for apps stuctured in the way I describe.
As others have recommended, just go through the tutorials on each component's website. I also found a tutorial about integrating Anguar.js and Express.js here: http://technokayiti.blogspot.no/2013/06/lesson-5-angularjs-tutorial-backend.html
I recently installed a web app which use Symfony2 framework and Apache Thrift.
Now I would like to make backbone usable in Symfony2 framework.
My question is about Backbone.sync.
How can I override/use Backbone.sync in order to get data from the server in a web app using Symfony2 framework and/or Apache Thrift ?
Are there some tutorials on the web for do it? I just found this one Symfony + Backbone.js for highly dynamic apps, but it doesn't say nothing about how to get data from the server.
By default, Backbone.js and its sync method can work with REST APIs without any modification. So if you can create a web service with Symfony2 that can handle GET/POST/PUT/DELETE and return JSON, you should be good to go.
I'm not terribly familiar with Symfony, but for a basic REST API, you'll need to define your URL routes (e.g. "www.yourdomain.com/api/items"), and then create methods to perform actions based on those routes (e.g. return records in JSON encoded format).
Here's a quick tutorial on creating a REST API with Symfony2: Symfony2 REST
Also, check out Wine Cellar tutorial on the Backbone tutorial page. It uses PHP Slim framework, but the backbone.js concepts will be exactly the same, because as long as you are using a basic REST API, backbone is back-end agnostic.
Check this bundle https://github.com/gigo6000/DevtimeRafflerBundle it's a small simple app that includes some basic REST actions. This was created with https://github.com/gigo6000/DevtimeBackboneBundle