Building REST APIs comes with many challenges and one of them is making sure that incoming payload from client is valid and is in proper format before sending it to proper processing or doing some high cost operation such as SQL Operation or file operation. JSON API validation in nodejs is quite a over head […]
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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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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 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 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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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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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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Meteor is complete platform to build real-time web and mobile applications using JavaScript. Meteor is not framework or library which meant to help you to solve specific problems like Express framework to provide painless web development in Node.js OR django for python, instead its a framework which allow programmers to write high performance modern web
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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 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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