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Building Google Custom Search Desktop Application using Electron

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Electron is framework which will let you develop desktop application using HTML and JavaScript. We have covered the development of desktop application using node-webkit which was initial project in developing desktop application using native web technologies. Atom shell was the project which now becomes Electron, an initiative taken by Github to develop the desktop application […]

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How to write custom middleware for ExpressJS

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Middleware in Express.js is a function that gets executed before HTTP response was formed. One of the famous example is using body-parser in express for extracting POST data. In this tutorial we will learn how to write custom middleware for Express.js project. We will develop sample project using middle-ware which will check HTTP requests and

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Reverse proxy using ExpressJS

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Reverse proxy is a proxy server which retrieve resources on behalf of client from one or more servers. Client end need not to know about all those servers. They request to proxy server on specific URL with over HTTP and proxy server finds out where to look ( in Servers ) to serve that request.

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Meteor Routing tutorial using iron:router

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Meteor Routing can be achieved using famous package available at atmospherejs ( Meteor package registry ) called iron-router. It provides both front-end and back-end routing facility. In this tutorial I am going to cover : Installing and configuring iron router. Meteor front-end routing. Meteor back-end routing. Sample project. DOWNLOAD Prerequisites Knowledge of Meteor basics is

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Build a RESTful API using Node and MongoDB

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MongoDB is open source, NoSQL, document oriented database designed for scaling and performance. MongoDB can be easily interface with Node.js cause Mongo provides official native driver. In this tutorial we are going to learn following things. DOWNLOAD Setting up MongoDB Installing NPM modules. Setting up our Server. Creating basic MongoDB model. Creating basic RESTful API’s

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How nodejs event loop works

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One of the best advantage of Node.js over other Server side technologies is executing asynchronous code. But how Node.js executes it ? You may have heard of Event loop which helps JavaScript to execute asynchronous code and this post is all about understanding how event loop works. Consider following code. console.log("i am first"); console.log("i am

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Installing NodeJS Development Environment in Amazon AWS EC2

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Amazon EC2 is a cloud-based hosting service that is free for 1 year for new customers. You can host your website, blog, any experiment project on a dedicated Linux box. I have been looking for VPS hosting service to host my Node.js demos because shared hosting is still not providing this service. After all my

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ExpressJs Router Tutorial

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Express is one of the popular web framework for Node.js. It provides wrapper to very useful functionality such as Rendering, Routing etc. In this tutorial i am going to cover Router() in Express framework. Express router is a class which helps us to create router handlers. By router handler i mean to not just providing

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Node.js async tutorial – Mass Mailer example

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Node.js is asynchronous in nature and runs on single threaded event loop. But how that work ? Well let’s say you have fired a database query and you are waiting for query to execute and then proceed further, but in a same scenario what will happen to the piece of code which are not dependent

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Extract stacktrace information in Node.js

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Node.js is great in many features such as clustering, async and many more but it was really bad in debugging. I got work assignment to invoke e-mail when any error occur in my script and i was wondering to put line number and other debug information in same email. To do so there were many

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