A guide for adding JWT token-based authentication to Your Serverless Application
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
Creating and Validating JSON Web Tokens (JWT) in Node.js
In this blog article, we covered what a JSONWeb Token (JWT) is, how to create a JWT, and how to verify a JWT.
Connecting to the Salesforce Analytics APIs through Node.js
In this blog article, we’ll be focused in on the Analytics API because it’s primarily used for reporting and dashboards.
Adding Promise Support to a Node.js Library
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.
Connecting to the Salesforce APIs through Node.js
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.
Migrating an Existing Express.js Based application to the Serverless Framework
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.
How to read an Excel file in NodeJs
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.
Outputting a CSV File from Node.js
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.
How to Generate a PDF in Node.js From HTML
In this blog post, you can learn how to generate PDF from an html file using Node.js.
Generating A PDF in Nodejs
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.
How to Perform SOAP Requests With Node.js
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.
Best Practices for AWS Lambda & Logging
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.
Connecting to MySQL from Node.js
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.
JavaScript Tricks to Save Time & Frustration
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.
What is Test Driven Development?
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.
How to Write Data to An Excel file in NodeJS
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.
Functional Programming with JavaScript
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.
Running Serverless Framework Functions Locally
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. 🙂
Using Prettier to Automatically Format JavaScript
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.
Is jQuery Dead?
I don’t think jQuery is dead at this point, but it’s growth seems to be slowing.