Topic

web

A collection of 11 issues

Some testing with Axios

Recently I’ve been working on integrating with a subscription/payment gateway. (It hasn’t been straightforward, but that’s a whole other post…) I wanted to be able to test my web-hook code without repeatedly triggering events from the gateway. I stored the incoming events in JSON format, which

Hapi: using pre-route functions for fun and profit

I started to think - Express has middleware, I wonder what Hapi has? There’s bound to be something so I can ...

Using templates and validation in Hapi

In this post we’ll add template rendering (with Vision) and input validation (with Joi) into our application from the previous set of posts.

Using Vision’s global contexts for auth data

A simple way to identify if your user is logged in.

Optional values in EJS templates

Handling optional variables in an EJS template.

Too Many Headers

Also known as "things I've learned today"... I've been using Insomnia the last couple of days to test a web API. Insomnia's a great client - it's got lots of features to make life easier. You can set arbitrary headers to whatever value you want, you can import cURL commands,

Vue and PWA = awesome

I just had to take a minute to say - Vue’s automatic PWA support is amazing. Enable it with the Vue CLI and it Just Works. Okay, you have to supply your own icons and stuff, but that's pretty reasonable I think. ;-)

GraphQL - first steps

I was following Flavio Copes' tutorial on creating a basic GraphQL server in Express the other day. The tutorial was good, but I realised at the end that it didn't give you an example of a query to actually see the resolvers in action. Luckily I've picked up enough GraphQL

Parameter handling for Node.js logging with Winston

Making Winston log statements act like console.log()

Uploading to S3 using signed URLs

There are a few guides to doing this out there - however, I found that none of them really worked for me for one reason or another. So I thought I’d document what worked for me. If nothing else it’s an alternate path to the one many blog