Journey Into Coding

Recently, when setting up an integration E2E test on a BETA site, I ran into an issue where it was taking forever and a day to get through the tests because there was

The problem: how to redirect user to originally requested url after login or sign upYou've set up your single-page app using Angular.js on the front end and have set up authentication for

Why Mongoose and MongoDB?MongoDB uses Document Oriented Storage in JSON-style documents. Mongoose is an object relational modeling (ORM) system that bridges Node.js and MongoDB. Running Node.js as a server and

Angular 1 has a nifty built-in filter called orderBy that allows for sorting or ordering a list of objects based on a property in the object. For most cases, this is sufficient. However,

Style sibling elements without using JavaScriptIt is often necessary to change the style of a sibling element when a user-induced event occurs on the DOM. As an example, changing an icon when a

Meteor is a NodeJS framework that is increasing in popularity because it allows a developer to  develop in just one language, JavaScript on the client and JavaScript on the server and to develop

This post is largely inspired by this excellent talk called "Sasqwatch is Real" given by Scott Moss, a Hack Reactor alum, at the Angular 2015 conference. He goes into depth about the need

Running npm install shouldn't take an hourRecently on several projects, I found that once I had forked and cloned the repo from GitHub, when I ran bower install and npm install to pull

You may read that Socket.io falls back gracefully to other communication routes if WebSockets are not available in the browser. Actually, Socket.io does not technically fallback to Ajax (XHR) polling or

When working on a team project, merge conflicts are invariably going to happen. Anybody who has been working with Git long enough knows that they are to be lived with but certainly not

Problems arise when working with embedded arrayI previously discussed tips on working with embedded arrays in your Mongoose schema for your MongoDB.I'd like to cover another tip that is potentially even more

If you are developing an application that requires low latency (human-unnoticeable delays between an input being processed and the corresponding output) like a chat room application, traditional HTTP requests are going to be

Recently I experienced a problem when I inherited a single page app that was using anchor tags on the home page to jump down to a specific location on the page. Recall that

Error: Can't set headers after they are sent.This is the error that was stymying me for hours. I was uploading an image file from an Angular.js front end to a node.

Meteor.js is a new(ish) platform that is gaining popularity due to the fact that is an allows for the building of isomorphic JavaScript web applications. If you don't know what that

In our Hack Reactor remote program, we were given a "Toy Problem" every morning to solve. A Toy Problem is an algorithm that we have about 45 minutes to solve (that's the goal

How does an HTTP Request work?This post will attempt break down the anatomy of an HTTP request. Recall that HTTP stand for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol and it's basically a protocol for

Author Note 10/9/2018: This article references Angular 1 and should only be used for Angular 1Allow users to upload images or other files to store them in a CDNMany times you

POSTMAN makes it easy to visualize the processYou want to create a simple server on node.js using node's basic http module or using Express. A quick way to do this would be