REST stands for REpresentational State Transfer. REST is a web standards-based architecture and uses HTTP Protocol. REST services address components as resources and are accessed by a common interface using HTTP standard methods. RESTful is the web service implementation of REST software architecture. In this tutorial, I am going to explain how to build RESTful …
ExpressJS is a popular NodeJS web framework. ExpressJS allows you to develop a custom web server according to your project requirement. The express project can be extended by installing various node modules. However, you don’t need to install multiple packages to handle HTML files and to render them in the response. In this short tutorial, …
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GET and POST is two common HTTP Requests used for building REST APIs. Both of these calls are meant for some special purpose. As per the documentation GET requests are meant to fetch data from specified resources and POST requests are meant to submit data to a specified resource. LIVE DEMO on YouTube Source Code Download The …
File upload in node.js seems tedious due to its async nature and network programming approach. However, it is one of the easiest file upload mechanisms I have seen yet. LIVE DEMO DOWNLOAD How to perform file upload? I am going to use express framework and middleware called “multer”. This middleware is designed for handling the multipart/form-data. In …
Session handling in any web application is very important and is a must-have feature, without it, we won’t be able to track users and it’s activity. In this article, I am going to teach you how to handle Session in Node.js. We will use express as a framework and various other modules such as body-parser …
Node.js and MySQL are some of the necessary binding needed for any web application. MySQL is one of the most popular open-source databases in the world and efficient as well. Almost every popular programming language like Java and PHP provides drivers to access and perform operations with MySQL. In this Node js and MySQL tutorial, …
Nodejs authentication using JWT a.k.a JSON web token is very useful when you are developing a cross-device authentication mechanism. Here is how token-based authentication works: User logins to the system and upon successful authentication, the user are assigned a token which is unique and bounded by time limit say 15 minutes On every subsequent API …
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Real-time web/mobile application is becoming popular day by day. Services like Firebase and Pusher provides API’s and Services to develop effective real-time notification system for your mobile and web apps. We are not going to use these Services in this post; instead, we will develop an application that pops up a notification on a particular …
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This tutorial is for Node.js and Express Beginners. Express is a node.js web development framework which comes with various features you require to build end-to-end web application such as routing, parsing, render engine support, etc. In this Node.js tutorial for beginners, we are going to cover the following topics: Node.js Basic Concepts Installing Node.js in …
Express provides user’s IP information in the request object. If you are using a reverse proxy in the front of Express web server ( You should in the production server ) you can retrieve the IP address in the x-forwared-for header, assuming you have configured your reverse proxy server correctly. Here is how you can …