35 posts tagged with "Node"
View All TagsHow to keep a consistent timeline between various portions of an application. Timekeeping libraries.
Flash messages notify the user about various things as they interact with the application. For example if a login failed, why it failed.
Environment variables are how you keep credentials like API keys secret when you upload your code to a public repository.
Creating nested REST routes to edit and delete comments. Restricting access to routes based on user role.
Checking if user is authorized to edit content by comparing user ID to author ID. Creating middleware function, and dynamic GUI controls based on ID.
Refactoring Express routes into separate modules for organizational purposes, using the Express Router middleware
Implementing user authentication in an Express application using Passport JS. Setting up login and registration forms, authentication routes, and template modification based on authentication.
Seeding is when we wipe the database and then add a set of filler data, which makes it easy to test when we are making changes. Itโs sort of like Lorem Ipsum, for the database.
Creating local modules in Node to containerize functionality, making them reusable and better organization for your application
Anytime a user can input text data we have to sanitize the input so that they don't inject anything malicious, like a script to drop the database. This is how we sanitize inputs in Express.