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It's not an overstatement to say that information and data runs the world. Almost any application, from social media and e-commerce websites to simple time tracker and drawing apps, relies on the very basic and fundamental task of storing and retrieving data in order to run as expected. Amazon's Relational...
Josh Simpson
In this article, we will be talking about how JSON Web Tokens works, what are the advantages of them, their structure, and how to use them to handle basic authentication and authorization in Express. You do not have to have any previous experience with JSON Web Tokens since we will...
Janith Kasun
Once you've written a web application, there are dozens of offerings to get your app online and usable by other people. One well known offering is part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform - Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). EC2 is a core part of AWS, and a lot of...
In this article, we are going to make a simple app to demonstrate how you can handle authentication in Express.js. Since we will be using some basic ES6 syntaxes and the Bootstrap framework for UI design, it might help if you have some basic knowledge about those technologies. Even...
With the increased complexity of modern software systems, came along the need to break up systems that had outgrown their initial size. This increase in the complexity of systems made it harder to maintain, update, and upgrade them. This paved the way for microservices that allowed massive monolithic systems to...
Robley Gori
In this brief article we'll be going over how to extract information from a POST body in Express.js. The HTTP protocol provides a number of ways to pass information from a client to a server, with POST bodies being the most flexible and most commonly used method to send...
Scott Robinson
Users don't only consume data, they also produce data and upload it. They can send data through applications like messengers or email to specific recipients or upload files to social networks and data streaming platforms such as Facebook or YouTube. That being said, almost every interactive website today supports file...
Guest Contributor
In this article, we are going to a build simple app to serve static files like HTML files, CSS files, and images using Node.js and Express. Configuring the Project and Installing Express To get started, let's create a new Node.js project by running the init command in a...
REST APIs are an industry-standard way for web services to send and receive data. They use HTTP request methods to facilitate the request-response cycle and typically transfer data using JSON, and more rarely - HTML, XML and other formats. In this guide, we are going to build a REST API...
David Landup
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