SAP can help you learn NodeJS,Angular and Microservices thanks to YAAS.io!

Another year is almost gone, and everybody is getting ready for the holidays, which usually means traveling. Having to wait in airports and stations is the perfect excuse for getting a book. In my case, I decide to get this book Manning | Node.js in Action, Second Edition.

If you are not into technical books, here is a list of great books (by Bill Gates) with deeper topics.

As with any development platform, one of the first questions one expects to answer is how to organise your code; for small developments this is trivial, but for medium to big developments, this can be a decisive factor in the quality and speed of development.

The book and the offi cial NodeJS documentation has clear ideas of how you should organise your code using modules. But if you are a newbie to NodeJS (like myself) maybe bigger and more complex examples will help you digest the concept.

It would also be helpful to see a microservice-driven implementation in real life, and better still with a fancy Angular front end.

Go to www.yaas.io! YaaS is a microservices ecosystem helping businesses to rapidly expand and build new, highly flexible solutions, and it is powered by SAP Hybris.

With this commands:

git clone https://github.com/SAP/yaas-storefront.git

cd yaas-storefront/

node install

You can get the source code of a full blown NodeJS applications based on microservices that uses Angular. 

You can have this application running in under 10 minutes, and easily enhance it.

For more details check SAP documentation: https://www.sap.com/developer/tutorials/yaas-download-run-default-storefront.html and other recommended reads:

YaaS Bites: First Steps

• Your first steps

YaaS Bites: The essentials

• Deploy, call and debug your first web service
• Take a service to the cloud
• Code a CRUD web service
• Code a multi-tenant CRUD web service
• Understand YaaS security: tokens, scopes, and the API Proxy
• Code RAML files
• Understand the Implicit Grant Flow
• Build Packages and Builder Modules
• Call other services
• Use Hystrix for resilience
• Extend the storefront
• Use the YaaS Service SDK

Happy holidays!