According to the official documentation, Docker is an open platform for developing, shipping, and running applications. It enables us to separate the applications from infrastructure so that we can deliver software quickly. It is one of the most popular containerization platform and provides the ability to package and run an

According to the official documentation, git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. It was invented by Linus Torvalds in 2005, also the creator of linux kernel. Version control is a system that

There are some tools in Node.js which are absolutely necessary to speed up the development process. Till now, we have been using npm start command to start our application and every time we make some changes in our project, we need to restart the server manually and that causes

In this chapter, we will implement CRUD operation for our admin features. CRUD refers to Create, Read, Update and Delete operations. In API perspective, CRUD often corresponds to the POST, GET, PUT/PATCH and DELETE http methods. Let's look at the following table to understand more on CRUD operations. Action

A middleware is a type of function which can be used to intercept the application's request-response mechanism and has access to the request object, response object and the next function. Next function can be another middleware or a handler function that ends the request. It is one of the most

In our previous chapter, we briefly mentioned about express.Router() being a better way of implementing routing mechanism. As per the official documentation, we can use express.Router class to create a modular and mountable route handlers. A Router instance is a complete middleware and routing system; for this reason,

In basic terms, routing is a mechanism in which HTTP requests made by the clients are routed to the appropriate code handler. Express.js provides a robust routing mechanism.  Routes/endpoints are defined using the combination of HTTP methods and a path pattern. Each route can have one or more

From official documentation, Express is a minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework that provides a robust set of features for web and mobile applications. It is one of the most popular frameworks built on top of Node.js and is widely used by technology companies. Express identifies itself

With Node.js, it's very easy to create a simple web server that can handle HTTP requests asynchronously. Node.js has a built in http module which we can be used to build a web server. This http module is very low-level and deals with stream handling and message parsing

For this tutorial series, we will use a code editor called Visual Studio Code, also commonly referred to as VS Code which is one of the best code editors for development work out there in the market and is created by Microsoft. It's free to use and cross-platform which made

You might have already heard something about Node.js. It's a very popular runtime environment that has been used extensively for building web applications for quite sometime especially by startup companies. The Node.js community is also growing rapidly. From the official website, Node.js is an asynchronous event-driven JavaScript