Express + TypeScript + Mongo – Part 4 – Swagger
If you’re building a fairly large API you’re going to want to document it so the consumers know what to expect. There are several ways to do this. The most common way is to...
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Express + TypeScript + Mongo – Part 3 – Mongoose
In the previous articles of this series, we rebuilt the original “ToDo server” application in TypeScript and used Mongo instead of MySQL. In this article, we’ll explore changing the server a bit more by...
Express + Typescript + Mongo – Part 2 – Connecting to Mongo
In the previous article, we got our Express project setup and our endpoints defined. In this article, we’ll connect it to an existing Mongo server. The first thing you’ll need to do is install...
Express + Typescript + Mongo – Part 1 – Getting Started
About a year ago, I wrote a series where I showed how to create a very simple “To Do” client and server application. The server was written in Java and used JEE and MySQL....
Earthquake Project – Part 3
The final piece to our project is to stitch together all of the PNG frames we generated last time into a single MP4 video. We’ll utilize a 3rd party program to do most of...
Earthquake Project – Part 2
The next step that we’ll need to do is convert the data we retrieved in the previous post into actual images. We’ll also use NodeJS for this. Before we start coding though, we’ll need...
Using NodeJS on Windows
If you’ve done NodeJS development on Windows, you might have encountered one of the following error messages when running npm install: Can’t find Python executable “python”, you can set the PYTHON env variable. Error:...
Earthquake Project – Part 1
About 7 years ago I created a video that showed all of the world’s earthquakes from 1980 until the present time. I’ve received several requests for an up-to-date version but I’ve lost the source...
Building the To Do front-end using AngularJS
Update (7/3/18): Fixed webpack.config.js for Webpack 4. This series is meant as a companion to the JavaEE series where we built a back-end service. In this series, we’ll build an AngularJS front-end that ties...
What is nvm?
“nvm” stands for Node Version Manager. Its purpose is to allow you to switch between different versions of node and npm quickly and easily. It also makes it easy to upgrade your version of...