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JavaScript is undoubtedly one of the most popular programming languages out there today, and for good reason. It can easily be run in your browser, on a server, on your desktop, or even on your phone as an app. One of the most popular and easiest ways to write JavaScript...
Scott Robinson
By default, Node.js is fairly secure by itself. Although, there are definitely things you have to watch out for. If your Node web-app starts to get more and more popular, for example, you'll need to be thinking more and more about security to ensure that you're keeping your users'...
Do you ever wonder what's going on within all of the Express.js middleware that you're adding to your webapp? It's actually pretty impressive what kind of functionality you can add to your apps with just one line of code, or a few: // requires... var app = express(); app.use("...
For many people, actually running your code in a production environment is an afterthought, and just writing the code is where the real challenge is. While this is mostly true in my experiences, finding a reliable and easy way to run your app can be pretty difficult itself. There are...
Cron is a scheduling utility that runs as a daemon process in the background of Unix-like systems. It's extremely popular for running periodic tasks, which can be anything you choose, like initiating a backup or clearing data from a database. You can add tasks to Cron via the command line...
Some of you Node veterans have probably heard of a few of these packages before, but I'm hoping from this article you'll find some really useful ones that you'd never heard of, like I did. I tend to forget there are so many packages out there, so I did some...
The Node Package Manager, or npm, is one of the best parts about Node, in my opinion. Package management can really make or break a language, so ensuring that it is easy to use and flexible is extremely important. Throughout my use of Node, I only ever knew the basic...
As you probably know (or have heard), Arduino is a great platform to learn and hack on electronics that would otherwise be very difficult to use for a beginner. It's a great introduction into programming, electronics, and engineering in general. But even then, as much of an improvement as Arduino...
Over the last few years especially, neural networks (NNs) have really taken off as a practical and efficient way of solving problems that can't be easily solved by an algorithm, like face detection, voice recognition, and medical diagnosis. This is largely thanks to recent discoveries on how to better train...
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