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If you know about JavaScript then you know about NPM; it’s the default package manager for Node.js which is an open source runtime environment. Developers use NPM because not only does it provide an easy way to maintain the code but it also helps them when they have...
Scott Robinson
For a long time, user authentication on the web consisted of storing some very simple data (like a user ID) in the user's browser as a cookie. This worked pretty well (and still does for many applications), but sometimes you require some more flexibility. Traditionally, to get this flexibility you...
The Unix command scp (which stands for "secure copy protocol") is a simple tool for uploading or downloading files (or directories) to/from a remote machine. The transfer is done on top of SSH, which is how it maintains its familiar options (like for specifying identities and credentials)...
For web applications especially, formatting a date is a pretty common task. Take a look at just about any website, whether it's an email client like Gmail, Twitter, or even on Stack Abuse articles, there is inevitably a date/time string somewhere on the page. In many cases, especially apps...
These days our web applications tend to have a lot of integrations with other services, whether it be interacting with a REST service like Twitter, or downloading images from Flickr. Using Node/JavaScript is one of the most popular languages to handle applications like this. Either way, you'll be making...
As any experienced programmer knows, dates and times are incredibly common in most application-level code. You might use dates for tracking the creation of an object, to track the time since an event occurred, or to save the date of an upcoming event. However, dates aren't easy to work with,...
One of the most exciting features coming to JavaScript (and therefore Node.js) is the async/await syntax being introduced in ES7. Although it's basically just syntactic sugar on top of Promises, these two keywords alone should make writing asynchronous code in Node much more bearable. It all but eliminates...
When you think of a database the first things that might come in to your head might be MySQL, MongoDB, or PostgreSQL. While these are all great choices for storing data, they're all over-powered for the majority of applications. Consider a desktop chat application written with the Electron framework in...
One of the most common things you'll want to do with just about any programming language is open and read a file. With most languages, this is pretty simple, but for JavaScript veterans it might seem a bit weird. For so many years JavaScript was only available in the browser,...
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