Day 33: Freelancing and Ruby

Friday, July 15, 2016

Topics

MEAN

We’ve been developing with the so-called MEAN stack. MEAN is an acronym.

• Mongo - database
• Express - minimalist web framework for Node
• Angular - front-end MVW framework
• Node - JavaScript runtime for executing JS outside a browser environment, such as on a server

Filters and Focus

• Using filter to get a subset of an array (e.g. to search through a list of notes, showing only the matches).
• Overcoming HTML5’s inability to deal with autofocus in dynamic templates with a custom directive.

Installing Ruby and Ruby on Rails

• Instructions for Mac
• Instructions for Windows
• Video instruction for Windows (may require a Treehouse account)
• Cloud9 remote development environment
  • Cloud9 tutorial for Rails

Freelancing

• Jeffrey Zeldman interview at Creative Boom

Projects

Meganote Server updates

• Allow unused args, prefixed with underscores.
• Add focusOn directive for autofocus.
• Use focusOn to focus appropriate form fields.

Homework

Keep working on your new, from-scratch Angular app!