NodeJS
40 postsNodeJS, ExpressJS, Ghost, NPM, Grunt, Gulp
Messing around with ES6, Promises and Geo
I'm working on a project that requires me to capture latitude, longitude, an array of zip codes, and country information using a single IP address. It thought it...
AWS: How to create your first Alexa skill
How to create your first Alexa skill –with pictures!
NodeJS: Creating a Single Page Web App Development Environment
Run HTML5 Boilerplate code from a web server within seconds.
Using an ORM with NodeJS
I've written a lot about building REST API's and a few of my favorite include Rails-only API, ExpressJS, Amazon Lambda, and SailsJS. This article is going to focus...
NodeJS: How to fix localhost Error: listen EADDRINUSE
If you're using NodeJS, sometimes you'll get an error like this: Error: listen EADDRINUSE :::5000 at Object.exports._errnoException at exports._exceptionWithHostPort at Server.setupListenHandle [as _listen2] at...
Create fake test data using Node
I'm working on a tool that enables marketers to upload a CSV file full of mobile numbers and send auto-generated surveys through Twilio. Before working on a CSV...
AWS: Lambda development on OS X
Through AWS Lambda, AWS is completely changing the entire web industry, again. If you're not familiar with Lambda, it's a new AWS compute service that manages the AWS...
Simple Sendgrid Example using Node
Here is a very simple example of how to create a simple Sendgrid app using NodeJS. Change directory into your node app. cd /name/of/node/app Install...
AWS: Install a Node app on AWS
I normally use Heroku or Openshift to publish apps but AWS works too. Here's a cheatsheet on how to set-up your NodeJS server from scratch on AWS. This...
How to create an iOS Splash Screen or Launch Image using NodeJS
So far I've discovered three different ways to create a Launch Image (aka Splash Screens) for iPhone and iPad. The first two methods are for designers and the...
How to install NVM with 1 line of code
This one line will install the shell script found below created by @creationix sudo curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/master/install.sh | sh Here's what the...
JS: Turn image into Vector art silhouette
I was recently asked to turn a bitmap image (.bmp) into a vector graphic and I wanted to do it using Javascript. NodeJS did the trick. The first...
How to install SailsJS
Dev Environment Install SailsJS npm install sailsjs Install Chrome Postman Content-Type application/json Quickly get started Create a new sails app. sails name_of_app Create new sails...
AWS: EC2 + NodeJS + Forever
I have a few ExpressJS applications that use Forever to keep things always moving. The scripts below are what I use invoke the servers. Start Create a my-app/...
NodeJS + Forever Scripts
Install Forever package Download and install forever package/ npm install --save forever Create two files Create a start file. nano /app_dir/start.sh Create a stop file....
Simple NodeJS Server
This is the simplest NodeJS server you can create. var port = 8080; var server = "localhost" var http = require('http').createServer( onServerCreatedHandler ); http.listen( port, server ); function...
NodeJS: Return Elevation from Google Maps API
Here's how to use Google Maps API to get the elevation of a specific location. /** Use Google maps API to return the elevation of a given [ lat, lng...
How to render a single HTML file within ExpressJS on Openshift
Deprecated Openshift v2.0 has now reached End of Life and will be replaced by v3.0. Step 1 index.js exports.index = function(req, res){ res.render(...
Express: Strip out port from req.headers.host
I doubt anyone will ever need this but just in case. I had a scenario where I needed to deliver the hostname (without the port) through an .ejs...
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