Axios is a popular, promise-based HTTP client that sports an easy-to-use API and can be used in both the browser and Node.js. Making HTTP requests to fetch or save data is one of the most common tasks a client-side JavaScript application will need to do. Third-party libraries — especially jQuery — have long been a ...
In this article, I’ll focus on must-have VS Code extensions for JavaScript developers. Visual Studio Code is undoubtedly the most popular lightweight code editor today. It does borrow heavily from other popular code editors, mostly Sublime Text and Atom. However, its success mainly comes from its ability to provide b...
Let’s take a look at the most important JavaScript updates that came with ES2017, and also briefly cover how this updating process actually takes place. The Update Process JavaScript (ECMAScript) is an ever-evolving standard implemented by many vendors across multiple platforms. ES6 (ECMAScript 2015) was a large rele...
This article looks at what’s possible with object literals in JavaScript, especially in the light of recent ECMAScript updates. The ability to create JavaScript objects using literal notation is powerful. New features introduced from ES2015 (ES6) make object handling even easier in all modern browsers (not IE) and No...
If you’re just getting started with Node.js and want to try your hand at building a web app, things can often get a little overwhelming. Once you get beyond the “Hello, World!” tutorials, much of the material out there has you copy-pasting code, with little or no explanation as to what you’re doing or w...
MongoDB is an open-source, document-oriented, NoSQL database program. If you’ve been involved with the traditional, relational databases for long, the idea of a document-oriented, NoSQL database might indeed sound peculiar. “How can a database not have tables?”, you might wonder. This tutorial introduces you to s...
Express.js is a Node.js web framework that has gained immense popularity due to its simplicity. It has easy-to-use routing and simple support for view engines, putting it far ahead of the basic Node HTTP server. However, starting a new Express application requires a certain amount of boilerplate code: starting a new se...
This article was originally published on mongoDB. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. The developer landscape has dramatically changed in recent years. It used to be fairly common for us developers to run all of our tools (databases, web servers, development IDEs…) on our own machines, ...
In Passport Authentication for Node.js Applications, we talked about authentication using Passport as it relates to social login (Google, Facebook, GitHub, etc.). In this article, we’ll see how we can use Passport for local authentication with a MongoDB back end. All of the code from this article is available for dow...
As Node.js continues to gain in popularity, new tutorials pop up teaching you to write server-side JavaScript apps and APIs. Once you’ve built your shiny new Node app, though, what then? In this article, I’m going to take a look at a couple of options for deploying your Node applications. We’ll take a...
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