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#45 Oct 8, 2020 How to Upgrade MongoDB With Zero Downtime – If you're running MongoDB in production, you should be running a replica set rather than a standalone
#44 Oct 1, 2020 The Case Against Using Environment Variables for Credentials and API Keys – In the early 2010's, the 12 Factor App popularized the idea that you should store configuration (API
#43 Sep 24, 2020 Common Tricks for Talking to REST APIs with Axios – Making API requests is difficult because every REST API does things a little differently. Between dif
#42 Sep 11, 2020 Write Your Own Express.js From Scratch – Last week we shipped our first premium tutorial: Write Your Own Express.js From Scratch, now availabl
#41 Sep 3, 2020 Headless Apps: Making Trello into an Email Scheduler – A while back we wrote about the idea of headless apps: an app that integrates existing UIs and has no
#40 Aug 7, 2020 Do Node.js Developers Need to Know Docker? – Docker is a common job requirement for anything backend related. If you've been looking at Node.js jo
#39 Jul 30, 2020 Why I'm Not Using Webpack for Lambda Functions Anymore – Earlier this year, we wrote about whether you need Webpack if you're writing server-side JavaScript.
#38 Jul 23, 2020 Using the ngrok npm Module to Test Webhooks – I was recently working with the Trello REST API and ran into a bit of a roadblock: the way to create
#37 Jul 16, 2020 Why You (Probably) Shouldn't Use the MongoDB Aggregation Framework – As a young undergraduate studying systems programming, I often wondered why threads were necessary. A
#36 Jul 7, 2020 What is the JAMStack? – The Jamstack (or JAMStack) is a interesting web development paradigm first coined by Netlify's co-fo
#35 Jun 24, 2020 Building and Testing Email Templating Using Vue – Recently, I was working on a custom eCommerce application, and got to the stage where I needed to des
#34 Jun 19, 2020 Building an API Client Library With Axios – Axios' `create()` function is a convenient tool for building your own API client, especially when com
#33 Jun 5, 2020 Introducing Mastering Mongoose, Our New eBook – Mongoose is the most popular Node.js database framework: over 1 million GitHub repos use Mongoose. Mo
#32 May 22, 2020 5 Reasons Why Vue is Better than React – In many ways, frontend frameworks are interchangeable. React, Vue, Angular 1, Angular 2+, and Ember a
#31 May 11, 2020 Does Webpack Bundle Size Matter? – There was a spirited debate on Twitter a few weeks ago on the topic of Webpack bundle size, based on
#30 Apr 28, 2020 Converting Vanilla HTML to Vue – One of the core benefits of Vue is that Vue templates are just HTML. And developers are often given r
#29 Apr 20, 2020 Do You Need Promise Chaining With Async/Await? – Promise chaining is a pattern for composing async logic using promises. You can chain promises togeth
