Really simple file uploads with Express
Few days ago I was working on a fairly typical web application and I faced the challenge of implementing a fairly typical web application feature - file uploads. It was the first time I was...
View ArticleNode.js and MongoDB - Getting started with MongoJS
It won't be an exaggeration if one claims that in the past few months Node.js and MongoDB have literally taken the software and web industries by storm.Not just bleeding-edge startups but even medium...
View ArticleSending e-mails with Node and NodeMailer
Sending e-mails with NodeJS is almost a breeze. Almost. First, you have to plug-in the NodeMailer module than set up a transport type, load the templates, add attachments and finally send...The CodeThe...
View ArticleMake Your Tests Deterministic
Non-deterministic issues like race conditions or thread deadlocks are very difficult to test, because they are by nature hard to reproduce. Fortunately, in the JavaScript world, we only have a single...
View ArticleSession-based Authorization with Socket.IO
Finding a decent article about session based authorization in socket.io is more difficult than one expected. This article will show how you can take advantage of Express session middleware and...
View ArticleContent Syndication with Node.js
Web syndication is a must for any Website wishing to share some entries easily to other systems. Better known under their format name like RSS) or Atom), they can be quite time consuming to generate...
View ArticleDaddy, what's a stream?
At dinner tonight, I was discussing that I've been thinking about streams and how to simplify them in JavaScript. My 7-year-old perked up and asked me:Daddy, what's a stream?I explained that a stream...
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Simplifying Chores with Grunt
Often in various stages of development we perform repetitive tasks e.g minification, compilation, unit testing, linting and we would definitely want to automate them. But each of these task require...
View ArticleGenerators vs Fibers
Both ES6 generators and node-fibers can be used to block a coroutine while waiting on some I/O without blocking the entire process.This means that you can wait for an I/O result within your code but...
View ArticleMocking Dependencies using [rewire]
Despite all my efforts to try to encapsulate some of my code into my modules, I was always founding myself exposing too much just for unit testing purpose. And even thought, it was often very complex...
View ArticleSolving Coding Challenges with Streams
My first experience using Node.js for a programming challenge was agonizing. I devised a viable solution, but I couldn’t figure out an effective way to parse the input. The format was painfully simple:...
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Node.js For Beginners. Deploy Your Blog to Heroku
Error pages are not what typically appear on your screen when you're surfing the web, but when it happens it's so annoying! To see how servers work from within, we will build a simple web server by...
View ArticleTurbo Charge your NodeJS app with Cache
Caching is great for your apps because it helps you to access data much faster when compared to the database. On the downside, querying is limited and it is very expensive (money-wise) because all the...
View ArticleStore data with CloudBoost's CloudObjects
CloudBoost is a Database Service with storage, search and real-time capabilities. Think of CloudBoost as Parse + Firebase + Algolia all combined into one. CloudBoost has SDK's in multiple platforms...
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