Full Stack JavaScript Development with MEAN Paperback – Big Book, 16 January 2015

Great book

While I wanted to like this book its simply not well organized and has a variety of typos that make following the code examples difficult.The book states that you are going to build a "working application" as you go through the book. In spread out chapters the authors try to get you to do this - unfortunately its not terribly clear when you are supposed to be updating the sample app vs when you are supposed to be learning new concepts. On multiple occasions, the "concept" code did not work as presented in the book. The sample code (on github) also did not provide a comprehensive listing of code examples that tie to what they want you to type in the book. If I had a working example for each one I could compare my code to theirs to see where errors exist - that is a common approach in technical books.Worse yet, the authors don't provide a "this is what your application should look like now" code example to match the end of each chapter where the sample project is extended. If your Node or Express server code is failing having a working server for comparison would allow me to see what I did wrong. Effectively, it would be far more useful to have a zip of **all** the files I should have at the end of each chapter that extends the sample app. Instead the github has individual files in a chapter folder with no context as to where that file goes in the sample application nor can I "run" their app to compare its functionality to what I created. The githib code makes it all but impossible to know if I have things correct in the sample app at any point as I don't have a project to compare it to.The early chapters in the book are a good overview to the MEAN stack and the early Angular chapters do provide a decent overview of that technology. That being said, if you want a book that is going to walk you through creating a sample app I simply find this book to be lacking compared to many other technical books I have read in the past - which is a shame because in general I do like SitePoint books.