Node.js

A collection of 63 posts

Yarn

Upgrade a Node.js project from Yarn 1 to Yarn 4

In this post, we take a Node.js project working with Yarn v1 and upgrade it to Yarn v4 to benefit from the performance and monorepo improvements.

Node.js

Implement Role-based Access Control in a Node.js API

A Step-by-step guide to adding role-based access control in a secured Node.js API. Control user permissions effectively and enhance API security.

Node.js

How to Secure Your Node.js API with JWT Authentication

Step-by-step guide to adding JWT authentication to your Node.js API. Learn how to secure your endpoints and protect your data.

AWS SNS

Implementing event-driven communication using AWS SNS and AWS CDK

This post shows how to create an SNS topic with the AWS CDK, publish a message from an API, and subscribe to the SNS topic from a service to read SNS events.

Node.js

Build the Docker image of a Node.js project using Prisma

This post will show you how to build the Docker image of a Node.js application that uses Prisma as the ORM to interact with your database. We will publish the image to the Docker Hub

Node.js

Create a Node.js REST API using Prisma ORM and PlanetScale

This post shows you how to build a Node.js REST API using Prisma, an ORM allowing you to interact with a MySQL database managed by PlanetSCale

Node.js

Migrate a Node.js project from ESLint and Prettier to Biome

This post will show you how to migrate an existing Node.js project using ESLint and Prettier to Biome. The Biome CLI provides simple commands to complete the migration.

Node.js

Set up a Node.js project with TypeScript and Biome

This post shows you how to set up a Node.js TypeScript and use Biome as the Code formatted and linter. You learn how to run it before every commit and inside your CI pipeline with GitHub Actions.

Node.js

Translate texts in Node.js with Amazon Translate

This shows how to use the AWS SDK v3 client for Amazon Translate in a Node.js application to translate text from one language to one or many.

Node.js

Read environment variables in a Node.js application

This post shows how to load and read environment variables in a Node.js application written in JavaScript first and then in TypeScript. We will see how to validate the environment variables at the application launch.

Prisma

Handle database transactions in Node.js with Prisma ORM

A database transaction is an execution of many operations (insert, update, or delete) as a single unit, taking the database from a consistent state to a consistent one. If one operation fails, all the previous operations are canceled. The properties of a transaction are Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability (ACID)

Node.js

Install and use the AWS SDK v3 in Node.js

In this post, we will see how to install the AWS SDK v3 and use it in a Node.js project to interact with an AWS service.

Node.js

Retrieve videos using YouTube Data API v3 in Node.js

In this tutorial, we will see how to retrieve all the YouTube channel videos from the YouTube Data API using the Google APIs SDK for Node.js.

Node.js

Retrieve YouTube API v3 key with Node.js

In this post, we will see how to generate the Access token required to interact with the TouTube Data API v3 and use the OAuth client to retrieve information about a YouTube channel.

Node.js

Upgrade Node.js using NVM the right way

Upgrading the Node.js version with NVM doesn't upgrade the Node.js global packages installed in the current version, in this post, we write a script to do it automatically.

REST API

Create a REST API with AWS Lambda and API Gateway using AWS CDK

This post shows how to define RESTful API routes on AWS API Gateway that invoke Lambda functions. We will write the infrastructure stack using the AWS CDK and SAM for local testing.

Web Scraping

Perform Web scraping in Node.js using a scraping browser

In this post, we will see how to perform web scraping in Node.js on websites with Recaptcha verification and Bot protection using a Scraping Browser and Puppeteer.

Prisma

Handle Database data integrity with the Prisma ORM

In this post, we will see how to use Prisma ORM to handle database integrity for databases that don't support foreign keys constraints, such as MySQL Serverless database (PlanetScale) and MongoDB

Node.js

Install Node.js using NVM

In this post, we will see how to use NVM to install different Node.js versions on the same computer and enable specific Node versions when needed.

Web Scraping

How to scrape amazon.com with Node.js

In this post, we will see how to scrape amazon.com to retrieve information about a product using Node.js with Web Scraper libraries.

Node.js

Get the user IP address in a Node.js application with Express

In this post, we will see how to retrieve the user IP address of a user in an Express Node.js application running behind the reverse proxy Nginx.

RabbitMQ

Publish a message to many Node.js applications using RabbitMQ

In this post, we will see how to publish a message to be consumed by two Node.js applications using RabbitMQ. This is also called Pub/Sub pattern

RabbitMQ

Asynchronous communication between Node.js applications using RabbitMQ

In this post, we will send a message from a Node.js application into a RabbitMQ queue and receive this message from another Node.js application.

Web Scraping

How to Scrape Zillow using Node.js

In this post, we will scrap the Zillow website using a scraping API named ScrapingDog that helps bypass captcha verification and scrap at scale.

Node.js

Load balancing a Node.js application with Nginx

In this post, we will see how to configure a load balancer on a Node.js application using Nginx and see how it improves the performance.