Tag: Node-JS-Tools

This guide will introduce you to the top tools for Node.js development to you can streamline your workflow and create high-performance apps.

We introduce nvm, a handy command-line tool that allows you to install multiple versions of Node.js and switch between them with ease.

express-generator is a command-line tool that saves you from writing repetitive boilerplate when starting new Express-based projects.

This article introduces Moment.js, a popular JavaScript library that is a Swiss Army knife for working with dates and times.

Learn the basics of MongoDB, the Mongo shell, popular drivers, common database operations and CRUD actions within the Mongo shell.

This guide shows how to use the mysql module to connect to your database and perform basic CRUD operations.

This article, sponsored by New Relic, provides an introduction to the automated task runner, Gulp.js, and shows how it can shrink page size.

Olayinka Omole compares the three JavaScript frameworks Express.js, Koa and hapi.js, looking at their similarities, differences and use cases.

Ahmed Bouchefra introduces Sails.js, covering basic concepts and creating an API by generating models, adding attributes and generating controllers.

Mark Brown introduces Hapi.js, a rich framework for building apps and services, showing how to create JSON APIs and easily extend or modify their behavior.

Michael introduces SimpleWebRTC, showing how to painlessly implement WebRTC in web applications by creating a cross-browser text and video messaging app.

Feras Khoursheed introduces you to FuseBox, a lightweight module bundler that serves as a faster, simpler and ultimately more flexible webpack alternative.

Jani Hartikainen gets you started with unit testing your JavaScript — an important, but often overlooked part of development — using Mocha and Chai.

Michiel Mulders compares Heroku and Now.sh, showing how to deploy Node apps to each service and looking at additional features like monitoring and logging.

KeystoneJS is a content management system and framework for Node.js. James Kolce takes a look at its main features and asks if it's a WordPress alternative.

Need to deploy multiple Docker containers? Jatin Shridar looks at Kubernetes: a tool for automated deployment, scaling, and management of docker containers.

Steve Kinney introduces some tips & tricks for debugging Electron applications and shows how you can use Visual Code to set breakpoints in the main process.

Learn how to painlessly migrate your existing users to Auth0 without requiring password resets.

Camilo Reyes shows how to write robust, testable code using SOLID principles by building a small but functional microblog with only minimal dependencies

Create a simple Facebook Chat bot that responds to movie queries from users via Facebook messenger. Joyce Echessa steps you through the process in detail.

Hugo Giraudel introduces JavaScript functional testing and demonstrates how it can ensure that an application works as expected from a user’s perspective.

Wern Ancheta shows how to to communicate with bluetooth low energy devices in a Cordova-based app.

Camilo looks at working with the Raspberry Pi GPIO pins in Node.js from a test-driven angle — ensuring a high quality IoT solution.

Chris Ward looks at Electron, an application framework for building desktop Node apps using HTML5 and JavaScript that work on Windows, Linux and MacOS.

A guide to connecting up a Raspberry Pi to various services and platforms including the IBM Watson IoT Platform, IBM Bluemix and Node-RED.

Patrick Catanzariti shows how to pair and run a simple JavaScript powered app on the Tessel 2 microcontroller.

Craig's tutorial and example code illustrates how to build a static website using the JavaScript-powered Metalsmith generation tool.

Andrew Forth demonstrates how to set up a lightweight CLI framework to automate various web crawling tasks, such as scraping links and taking screenshots.

Igor Lima introduces a built-in feature of Backbone.js called Events and Socket.IO to implement an asynchronous messaging paradigm to avoid coupling.

Jay Ray shows how to use RethinkDB, an open source JSON database, with Node.js applications.