Brian & Brock's App Adventure

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" summary

Builds a real pipeline: a Node.js module that screen-scrapes nhl.com using jsdom and jQuery, tests it with Mocha, publishes an npm module, and exposes it via Express as an HTTP API. Front end is an Angular single‑page app compiled with harp, deployed with surge, then wrapped in Cordova/PhoneGap and run on iOS simulator and Android device (Android builds slow but work). Notes npm ecosystem size (≈97k packages, ~22M daily downloads).

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:47Full stack JavaScript
3. 7:47JavaScript and Node.js history
4. 13:04Creating npm module
5. 48:56NHL API with Node.js
6. 1:04:19Express API setup
7. 1:11:29Introduction to HTML5 and web development
8. 1:22:20Angular client for NHL API
9. 1:31:52Deploy client with Harp
10. 1:33:41Wrap app with Cordova
11. 1:38:43Web platform challenges
12. 1:43:50Q&A

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