Web scraping is a technique in which we extract information from websites by parsing the HTML document of the web page. You can perform web scrapping in multiple ways, in this tutorial, we will be showing you how to build a web scraper using Node.js to extract information from websites. For reference, we will use […]
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Weather app is very common among people. It’s on our phone screen, on our computer’s menu bar. Let’s build one in order to understand how to integrate third-party APIs into our web application. In this article, we will build a simple application that will take the city name as an input and returns its current
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SERP i.e Search engine results page is a common term between internet marketers and website owners. For any website, search traffic is a crucial factor. Search engine optimization or SEO is used to make sure that the web page follows the guidelines laid out by search engines like Google, Yahoo, etc to rank better for
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Moving to custom Node.js stack from WordPress creates many challenges. One of them is to custom code the plugins feature such as the Related post plugin. It’s so easy to do that in WordPress, just add a plugin and you are pretty much done. Also Read: Migrating WordPress Content to MongoDB I had to custom
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A URL shortener is a pretty popular application on the Web. URL shortener saves spaces so that one can send it in emails, tweet it on Twitter while still redirecting to the original URL. For example, consider this URL: https://www.amazon.in/Apple-iPhone-XR-64GB-White/dp/B07JGXM9WN/ If we generate the short URL of this, it will be: sleepy-dawn-98666.herokuapp.com/bvVDmIUq It’s simple, compact
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Nginx can play many roles in your system design. It can work as a Web server, proxy server, reverse proxy and as a load balancer as well. In this article, we’re going to learn how to load balance NodeJs servers using Nginx. As you know, we redesigned Codeforgeek and used Nginx as a load balancer.
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As I have mentioned in our technology stack article, we use WordPress to manage our content. Our front-end is handled and served using Node and MongoDB stack and I needed to connect these two systems (WordPress and custom Node stack) without making any large dependencies. One of the old school ways is to create a
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MongoDB is one of the most popular NoSQL databases in the world. The simplicity of the system makes it easy to adapt and maintain. When we use databases such as MongoDB in our web services we tend to ignore the performance part of it. When database scales up to a good volume, it may slow
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With the rise in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence, the need for neural networks is also elevating. The neural network comprises a series of algorithms that undertakes to perceive the connection in a data set by a method that is similar to the way the human brain works. They can modify to
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WordPress uses MySQL as a primary database to store its content that includes posts, categories, tags, users, media and other meta details. WordPress also has a pretty awesome import/export feature that generates a generic XML file containing the content information. This article is a part of Codeforgeek redesign series. When we chose to decouple WordPress
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