Setup Flashcards
1
Q
What is a good general setup for development?
A
ATOM, Node.js, NVM, MongoDB, NPM
2
Q
What is Node.js?
A
1) JavaScript runtime build on the Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine
2) Event-driven, non-blocking I/O that makes it lightweight and efficient
3) Package ecosystem is NPM
3
Q
Why use NVM?
A
You can switch to different versions of node
4
Q
What is MongoDB? How do you run it?
A
It is a database, more like a document store. It’s not really row/column based data, rather it looks very similar to JSON data
noSQL database application
You run it by doing mongod. Stands for mongo daemon and runs as a server process
5
Q
What is RoboMongo?
A
It’s a graphical interface for us to see what’s in our Mongo database
6
Q
What is Postman?
A
Simulates requests
