Web applications with Node.js
This document describes the course project assignment for the Web applications with Node.js course at Telerik Academy.
Design and implement a Standard Web application using Node.js, Express and MongoDB.
It can be a discussion forum, blog system, e-commerce site, online gaming site, social network, or any other web application by your choice.
The application should have a:
- public part (accessible without authentication)
- private part (available for registered users)
The public part of your projects should be visible without authentication. This public part could be the application start page, application statistics, the user login and user registration forms, as well as the public data of the users, e.g. the blog posts in a blog system, the public offers in a bid system, the products in an e-commerce system, etc.
Registered users should have personal area in the web application accessible after successful login. This area could hold for example the user's profiles management functionality, the user's offers in a bid system, the user's posts in a blog system, the user's photos in a photo sharing system, the user's contacts in a social network, etc.
Your Web application should use the following technologies, frameworks and development techniques:
- At least 5 different public dynamic web pages
- Using Pug
- At least 3 different private (authenticated) dynamic web pages
- Using Pug
- At least 5 different public RESTful routes for AJAX
- At least 1 private (authenticated) route for AJAX
- Use Express for the server
- Use an MV-* pattern
- Use MongoDB
- As data storage
- Optionally, you may use Mongoose or any other ODM framework
- Create a data/service layer for accessing the database
- Use Passport - for managing users
- Your registered users should have at least one of the two roles: user
- Use any framework of your choice for the front-end
- Optional, not required
- KendoUI, AngularJS, Angular 2, Knockout, Bootstrap, etc...
- implement responsive design
- It may be based on Bootstrap, Materialize or any other UI framework
- Use at least one AJAX form and/or WebSockets communication
- Write at least 10 different unit tests for your controllers and data logic
- Apply error handling and data validation to avoid crashes when invalid data is entered
- Prevent yourself from security holes (XSS, XSRF, Parameter Tampering, etc.)
- Handle correctly the special HTML characters and tags like
<script>,<br />, etc.
- Handle correctly the special HTML characters and tags like
- Use Git
- Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket, or other
- Brief documentation of the project and the project architecture
- As
README.mdfile at the root of the github repository
- As
- Nice looking UI supporting of all modern and old Web browsers
- Good usability (easy to use UI)
- Record a short video showcasing your application
- ~1-2 minutes, just show the interesting features
- Do not record register/login functionality, this is not interesting...
- Upload your application in the cloud
- MS Azure, HerokuCloud, Amazon, all are fine
- Register your application at Our Showcase System
- Link to the live application
- Link to the video
- Link to the github repository
Each team will have to make a public defense of its work in front of a trainer (for about 30 minutes), in which each of the team members will answer to the trainer's questions individually.
The public defense includes:
- Live demonstration of the developed web application (prepare sample data).
- Explain application structure and its back-end and front-end source code
- Show the commit logs in the source control repository to prove a contribution from all team members.
- May include a simple task for each team member
- The task must be implemented immediately
You will be invited to provide feedback about all your teammates, their attitude to this project, their technical skills, their team working skills, their contribution to the project, etc. The feedback is important part of the project evaluation so take it seriously and be honest.