CategoryNode.js

April 20, 2023 — Dockerizing your Node.js apps can lead to smashing success—offering consistency, easy debugging, and hassle-free dependency management. When you host this container on Kinsta, you also benefit from high-speed performance, robust security, and top-notch scalability. By combining these two, you’ll surely have a whale of a time as you sail smoothly through the development seas. Read more…

November 12, 2022 — This article is aimed at both beginners and intermediates who use or just started using Node.js for server side development. At the end of this article, you’ll be able to understand the Test-Driven Development process and use it for your own projects. Read more…

October 7, 2022 — Integrate two-factor authentication into your Express.js app by building an application that authenticates users using password-based authentication and OTPs powered by the Twilio Verify service. Read more…

June 2, 2022 — In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a group chat app. You will build a backend app using Node.js that will make group chats, authorize chat participants, and maintain sessions for them. Read more…

December 2, 2021 — There’s a great challenge that comes with building Jamstack applications on the web. In this article, Caleb Olojo explains how you can use Next.js to bootstrap your app safely. Read more…

October 28, 2021 — The wealth of data that Amazon holds can make a huge difference when you’re designing a product or hunting for a bargain. But, how can a developer get that data? Simple, by using a web scraper. Why would someone want to scrape Amazon pages? You’re about to find out! Here’s how to build your data extraction bot with Node.js. Read more…

April 13, 2021 — Instead of sending the entire video at once, a video is sent as a set of smaller chunks that make up the full video. This explains why videos buffer when watching a video on slow broadband because it only plays the chunks it has received and tries to load more. In this article, Deven Rathore will build a video streaming app using Nuxt.js and Node.js. Specifically, you’ll build a server-side Node.js app that will handle fetching and streaming videos, generating thumbnails for your videos, and serving captions and subtitles. Read more…

March 24, 2021 — Eleventy (aka 11ty) is rising in the ranks among static site generators. This Node-based builder is attractive due to its zero-config starting point, purely static output, and ease of achieving the coveted top Lighthouse performance score of four perfect 100s. Let’s dive into what else makes it unique, and learn about some essential concepts to help you successfully get started. Read more…

March 11, 2021 — All of us use web scraping in our everyday lives. It merely describes the process of extracting information from a website. For a lot of web scraping tasks, an HTTP client is enough to extract a page’s data. However, when it comes to dynamic websites, a headless browser sometimes becomes indispensable. In this tutorial, Andreas Altheimer will build a web scraper that can scrape dynamic websites based on Node.js and Puppeteer. Read more…

January 19, 2021 — why do we need blockchain? Blockchain is a safe way to record activities and keep data fresh while maintaining a record of its history compared to the traditional records or databases where hacks, errors, and downtimes are very possible. In this article, John Agbanusi explains how you can build a Node.js API from scratch by building and deploying an Ethereum Blockchain for decentralization. He also shows you a step-by-step process of integrating both the API and blockchain into a single API called a “decentralized application API”. Read more…