Day 14: Wrapping up Meganote

Friday, June 17, 2016

Topics

Markdown

• Mastering Markdown - An overview of Markdown from Github
• Markdown Tutorial - a quick, interactive tutorial for the basics

CORS

• CORS W3C specification
• Access-Control headers to specify what types of requests and methods are allowed
• Cross-Origin Requests in Express.JS

Mongoose

• .sort()
• .findOne()
• Middleware / Hooks
  • Set up events to occur before or after a supported Document, Query, or Model function
  • schema.pre('save') - to occur before a save function
  • schema.post('save') - to occur after a save function

Third-Party Packages added to Meganote

• Sanitize HTML (Node)
  Clean up user-submitted HTML, preserving whitelisted elements and whitelisted attributes on a per-element basis.
• HTML-to-Text (Node)
  An advanced converter that parses HTML and returns beautiful text.
• textAngular (Angular)
  A Lightweight, Two-Way-Bound & Totally Awesome Angular.js Text-Editor.

More ui-router

• ui-sref - A directive that binds an anchor tag (<a>) to a state
• URL Routing with Parameters
• Nested States and Views - Also known as child states
• Resolve - Provides your controller with content or data that is custom to the state. Any promises will be resolved and converted to a value before instantiating the controller.

More Angular

• ng-bind-html - tells Angular to replace the innerHTML of an element with the value of an expression. Similar to {{ expression }}
• .constant - register a Provider on an angular module that returns a constant value

  angular.module('myApp')
    .constant('API_URL', 'http://myapi.com/example/all');