20 posts found for the tag Node.js

6 Common mistakes in using JavaScript Promises

Posted on September 20, 2021

Hello friends 👋, we are reaching the end of the series, Demystifying JavaScript Promises - A New Way to Learn. So far, we have learned a lot about JavaScript asynchronous programming and promises. If you are new to the series, please check out the p...

Introducing PromiViz - visualize and learn JavaScript promise APIs

Posted on August 22, 2021

Why does JavaScript promise sounds a bit more complex than many other topics? Besides the factors that we have already discussed, we also need to know how it executes, what's the background story? After spending a considerable amount of time practici...

JavaScript async and await - in plain English, please

Posted on August 15, 2021

JavaScript developers love using async-await. It is the most straightforward way to deal with asynchronous operations in JavaScript. Suppose we do a poll of usability between the async/await syntax vs. the promise.then()...then().catch(), async/await...

JavaScript Promise Chain - The art of handling promises

Posted on August 6, 2021

Hello there 👋. Welcome to the second article of the series Demystifying JavaScript Promises - A New Way to Learn. Thank you very much for the great response and feedback on the previous article. You are fantastic 🤩. In case you missed it, here is t...

JavaScript Promises - Explain Like I'm Five

Posted on July 31, 2021

Hello friends 👋, welcome to the first article of my brand new series, Demystifying JavaScript Promises - A New Way to Learn. JavaScript promises are very special. As web developers, we hardly have a way to avoid learning about it. Believe me, if not...

How to install, manage Node.js on Ubuntu and additional tips

Posted on July 20, 2021

Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 engine that helps to build scalable applications. As a web developer, you may find Node.js as omnipresent irrespective of client-side or server-side development. It provides and supports the NPM(No...

Tips to customize npm init to make it your own

Posted on May 25, 2021

Introduction To npm init Do you agree, it is almost impossible to think about web app development without the support of npm(node package manager) or yarn? Alright, I'm probably exaggerating here, but the truth is somewhat close to it. Every day, mil...

JavaScript undefined and null: Let's talk about it one last time!

Posted on November 6, 2020

In JavaScript, undefined and null are very different from each other. However, there are only a few similarities that may confuse a beginner to the language. This article aims to explain the similarities, differences, and usages with examples. Hope y...

Toolkit for Publishing your React Component to the Node Package Manager(NPM)

Posted on July 13, 2020

Introduction Today we are part of the ever-growing react community all over the world. Many react developers continuously creating open-source react components and publishing them to the npm repository. The entire ecosystem is an awesome place to be ...

The npm Dependency Handbook for You

Posted on July 10, 2020

Introduction Node Package Manager(npm) is the online software repository that helps publish and manage open-source node.js-based projects. It also provides a CLI (Command Line Interface) for package install/uninstall, version management, and dependen...

JavaScript: this is easy and what do you need to know about it!

Posted on July 6, 2020

Introduction Let me start this article by thanking the readers of my series, JavaScript: Cracking the Nuts for liking and loving it so far. This article will go through another fundamental but equally misunderstood aspect of JavaScript called the th...

i18n-web: Tool for String Externalization and Internationalizing the Web

Posted on May 18, 2020

i18n-web i18n-web is a simple tool that helps in externalizing the strings in a JavaScript-based Application such that, Internationalization(i18n) can be achieved easily. It has the additional capability of parameterizing the strings to get the dynam...

JavaScript Modules and how to effectively work with Export Import

Posted on May 15, 2020

Introduction No one would like to work with the code having one gigantic JavaScript file with many unrelated functions. Moreover, when you need to use a few functions from that file, you end up loading all the others unnecessarily. AMD was a great ...

Faking is Good: Back-end Data and API Prototyping with Faker.js and JSON-Server

Posted on January 23, 2020

Introduction We are agile! In most of our projects we are asked to develop User Interfaces in parallel to the back-end services and APIs. This gives us the challenge of Implement and Test the User Interfaces without the real and real-like data availa...

Build, Test and Publish your NPM, I just did it in few minutes!

Posted on November 25, 2019

Introduction They say, "Opensource is a moral thing"! If we build something keeping opensource in mind, we should also take care of making the work available such that, it can be used, realized beyond the 'source code' itself. Hence publishing the wo...

Node.js Important Globals and Process Object

Posted on October 3, 2019

This is the continuation of my previous post in the Node.js series, Node.js - Knowing the Global Objects In the last post of the series, we learned about the global, which contains all the available functionalities by default to a node.js program ...

Send and Schedule e-mails from a Node.js app

Posted on September 15, 2019

As an application developer, how often do we sense the need for a service that would send e-mails to specified or subscribed email ids? Even if there is no real need, we still fantasize about it while developing a side-project or an app for fun, don'...

Private class fields in JavaScript, this time in true sense!

Posted on July 9, 2019

In general, one should ignore reading this further as, we are talking about yet another way to make a class field Private in JavaScript! We, the JS Developer community know more than couple of ways to do it already. Be it, Using Class Constructor U...

A step by step guide to your first CLI(Command Line Interface) app using Node.js

Posted on May 13, 2019

I was supposed to attend a meetup on Developing First CLI using Node, last Sunday. I was as excited as I am now while writing this blog post. But unfortunately, I had to miss the session, which is when I thought I would be writing one on my own and ...

Node.js - Knowing the Global Objects

Posted on May 3, 2019

By definition A Global object is, An object that always exists in the global scope. For web browsers, we have a window object. It provides the “browser window” functionality and also plays the role of a global object. When scripts create global va...