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How to process forms using Express
Learn how to access and change HTTP headers using Express
How to set up HTTPS using the popular free solution Let's Encrypt
A middleware is a function that hooks into the routing process, and performs some operation at some point, depending on what it want to do.
Having a purpose is a high-motivating factor to overcome challenges
How to redirect to other pages server-side
Found out how to retrieve the POST query parameters using Express
The events module of Node.js provides the EventEmitter class
The os module of Node.js provides useful functions to interact with underlying system
Get this guide to the Express framework that lets you build awesome Web Applications using Node.js!
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A handy reference to all the request object properties and how to use them
Learn how to terminate a Node.js app in the best possible way
Learn how to read and make use of environment variables in a Node.js program
How to use the Pug templating engine
How to create a self-signed HTTPS certificate for Node.js to test apps locally
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How to handle errors during the execution of a Node.js application
Routing is the process of determining what should happen when a URL is called, or also which parts of the application should handle a specific incoming request.
Express provides a handy method to transfer a file as attachment: `Response.download()`
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How to send a response back to the client using Express
How to use sessions to identify users across requests
How to serve JSON data using the Node.js Express library
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How to serve static assets directly from a folder in Express
Express is capable of handling server-side template engines. Template engines allow us to add data to a view, and generate HTML dynamically.
Learn how to validate any data coming in as input in your Express endpoints
MySQL is one of the most popular relational databases in the world. Find out how to make it work with Node.js
WebSockets are an alternative to HTTP communication in Web Applications. They offer a long lived, bidirectional communication channel between client and server.
The http module of Node.js provides useful functions and classes to build an HTTP server
The path module of Node.js provides useful functions to interact with file paths
What is a platform, why having your own platform is important
How to interact with folders using Node
How to interact with file descriptors using Node
How to get the details of a file using Node
How to write files using Node
How to interact with file paths and manipulate them in Node
How to read files using Node
Axios is a very convenient JavaScript library to perform HTTP requests in Node.js
The fs module of Node.js provides useful functions to interact with the file system
How to perform HTTP requests with Node.js using GET, POST, PUT and DELETE
How to build an HTTP server with Node.js
How to work with custom events in Node
The Node.js setImmediate function interacts with the event loop in a special way
The Node.js process.nextTick function interacts with the event loop in a special way
The Event Loop is one of the most important aspects to understand about Node
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When is a package a dependency, and when is it a dev dependency?
When is a package best installed globally? Why?
How to uninstall an npm Node package, locally or globally
How to make a Node.js CLI program interactive using the built-in readline Node module
How to print to the command line console using Node, from the basic console.log to more complex scenarios
REPL stands for Read-Evaluate-Print-Loop, and it's a great way to explore the Node features in a quick way
How to accept arguments in a Node.js program passed from the command line
If you are just starting out with JavaScript, how much deeply do you need to know the language?
How you can install Node.js on your system: a package manager, the official website installer or nvm
A look back on the history of Node.js from 2009 to today
Learn what Node buffers are, what they are used for, how to use them
Find out how to extract the data sent as JSON through an HTTP request body using Node
Find out how to make an HTTP POST request using Node
How writing JavaScript application in Node.js differs from programming for the Web inside the browser
How to use the module.exports API to expose data to other files in your application, or to other applications as well
Logging objects in Node.js
In this post I distill the key concepts that I learned from the 4-Hour Work Week book by Tim Ferriss. I added some of my personal observations and experience, and I happily ignored things that don't apply to me.
The two ways of referencing the filesystem: ./ and __dirname, explained
Learn how to install an older version of an npm package, something that might be useful to solve a compatibility problem
Learn what streams are for, why are they so important, and how to use them.
How to find out which version of a particular package you have installed in your app
How to parse JSON from a string, and how to read a JSON file in Node.js
How do you win at SEO as a technical blogger? You know you want more visits, you want Google to send you more people every day
How do you update all the npm dependencies store in the package.json file, to their latest version available?
The query string is the part that comes after the URL path, and starts with a question mark. Let's see how to get the properties values.
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Semantic Versioning is a convention used to provide a meaning to versions
The package-lock.json file is automatically generated when installing node packages. Learn what it's about
How to include and use in your code a package installed in your node_modules folder
Find out how to properly upgrade the Node.js version you have installed
How to find out where npm installs the packages
The package.json file is a key element in lots of app codebases based on the Node.js ecosystem.
An overview of the quotes allowed in JavaScript and their unique features
The JavaScript cookbook contains lots of useful how-to articles that explain how to perform common things in JavaScript
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Explore the main differences between HTTP and HTTPS, see why HTTPS is faster and better for everything
Every HTTP response has a set of headers. This post aims to list all those headers, and describe them
Every HTTP request has a set of mandatory and optional headers. This post aims to list all those headers, and describe them.
What happens when you type an URL in the browser, from start to finish
In 2015 the ECMAScript 6 (ES6) standard introduced classes. Learn all about them
When the code runs into an unexpected problem, the JavaScript idiomatic way to handle this situation is through exceptions
JavaScript is quite unique in the popular programming languages landscape because of its usage of prototypal inheritance. Let's find out what that means
Learn how to make your function sleep for a certain amount of time in JavaScript
Why becoming a software engineer is a good plan for your future career
How I created an array of 5000 unique strings in JavaScript
When working with Git using the command line, the most common way to handle authentication is through the use of SSH keys. Find out how to set them up.
npx is a very cool way to run Node code, and provides many useful features
The Math object contains lots of utilities math-related. This tutorial describes them all
Performing math operations and calculus is a very common thing to do with any programming language. JavaScript offers several operators to help us work with numbers
JavaScript semicolons are optional. I personally like avoiding using semicolons in my code, but many people prefer them.