JSON In Node.js

As I continue to play with Node.js one of the common tasks that I wanted to understand more was how to work with JSON objects and files. I constructed the code below to remind me later how to turn a JSON object to a string, how to write out to a file, then how to... Continue Reading →

August 14, 2018

Using 3rd Party Packages In Node.js

One of the most profound capabilities of any modern programming language is it's ability to consume / use 3rd party packages that add functionality and make coding easier and more powerful. The Node.js language has npm which claims to be the world’s largest Javascript repository of reusable code.In this post I’m going to summarise how... Continue Reading →

August 10, 2018

Building My Node.js Skills

For a while now I’ve been using Javascript when building API’s in IBM API Connect or augmenting client side web pages with some functionality .. and I have decided its time to look at how to build server side apps using Node.jsIn part my motivation is to better understand how apps and microservices scale on... Continue Reading →