One way to secure your serverless application is to implement token-based authentication, which helps to ensure that only authorized users can access your app
In this blog article, we covered what a JSONWeb Token (JWT) is, how to create a JWT, and how to verify a JWT.
In this blog article, we'll be focused in on the Analytics API because it's primarily used for reporting and dashboards.
I know that when I am working in JavaScript, I prefer to keep everything to using promises or async/await instead of occasionally using callbacks because a library doesn't support them.
There are a number of different JavaScript modules or libraries that are available on npm to connect to the different REST based Salesforce APIs. In this post, I show my favourite library.
AWS Lambda allows us to dramatically lower our costs for running an application. It's fairly easy to convert an Express.js app into running in the serverless framework.
My favourite library for reading, writing, and manipulating Excel files in Node.JS is ExcelJS. In this tutorial, we'll look at how to install the library and how to dynamically read an Excel file.
After reading this article, you will understand how to export data from a database or other system using a csv library in Node.js. CSV stands for common separated values file which means that data can be stored in a tabular format with commas separating each value.
In this blog post, you can learn how to generate PDF from an html file using Node.js.
The PDF format is one of the most common file formats for transmitting static information. It's a really common request for businesses to be able to export a document or data into a really well-formatted PDF file whether it be an invoice or a report.
SOAP is basically an XML based API that existed before the REST API existed. SOAP stands for Simple Object Access Protocol - it's a mostly legacy protocol that was designed for doing remote api requests in a language independent way. From time to time unfortunately, we'll need to call a SOAP API.
Having your application / system produce the right amount and quality of logs is just as important as having the system process the needed data because it helps make debugging easier and allows us to better optimize data. Logging on AWS lambda can be really costly if it's not done correctly.
For the most part, it seems to be that NodeSQL databases are the defacto standard with Node and JavaScript developers. Using MySQL is still an option and can make a lot of sense if the project already has an existing database.
In my everyday life as technology leader ("tech lead") and full stack developer I run into a lot of problems that need to be solved every day.
TDD is a lot more than vanity metrics like the percentage of code covered by tests. Test Driven Development (TDD) is a development process that consists of the tests being designed and written before most of the code is written.
Excel is a really commonly used spreadsheet program that lots of companies use to transmit data. Finding a really good library that doesn't require Excel to exist on the server can be really hard.
JavaScript is really suitable for function programming because of functions being first class. Functions being first class means that JavaScript treats them as a type of object.
Developing locally makes a lot more sense than deploying to a dev environment consistently because it helps save time, save some cloud costs, and avoids obvious embarrassment. :)
Prettier is a code formatter that can automatically format code when save is pressed. I like using prettier to format my code because it saves me a lot of time and a lot of energy.
I don't think jQuery is dead at this point, but it's growth seems to be slowing.