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webapplog [tech blog] Book author Azat Mardan writes about apps, startups and technology This essay was inspired by the Kyle Simpson’s series of books, You Don’t Know JavaScript. They are a good start with JavaScript fundamentals. Node is mostly JavaScript except for a few differences which I’ll highlight in this essay. The code is in the You Don’t Know Node GitHub repository under the code folder

webapplog [tech blog] Book author Azat Mardan writes about apps, startups and technology This text is part of Introduction to OAuth with Node.js mini-book which is available at gum.co/hRyc. Introduction to OAuth with Node.js: Twitter API OAuth 1.0, OAuth 2.0, OAuth Echo, Everyauth and OAuth 2.0 Server Examples Let’s start with good old OAuth 1.0. The way it usually works is as follows: For the fir

webapplog [tech blog] Book author Azat Mardan writes about apps, startups and technology Inspired by 5 Things You Should Stop Doing With jQuery by Burke Holland, I decided to open a discussion and highlight seven things you should immediately stop doing with Node.js: Stop using callbacks Stop using * for versions Stop using console.log for debugging Stop using GET and POST for everything Stop usin

webapplog [tech blog] Book author Azat Mardan writes about apps, startups and technology TL;DR: PHP is not going to disappear immediately, but its positions are undermined even further by the nascent Node.js. When the Internet exploded in the 2000s, PHP was a thing all the cool kids did. It was extremely revolutionary, because: It was an interpreted language unlike C++ or Java which require the so

webapplog [tech blog] Book author Azat Mardan writes about apps, startups and technology Express.js 4 is the latest (as of May 2014) version of the most popular mature and robust Node.js framework for web apps, services and APIs. There are some breaking changes going from 3.x to 4.x, so here’s a brief migration guide: Replacing Unbundled Middleware in Express.js 4 Removing Deprecated Methods from

webapplog [tech blog] Book author Azat Mardan writes about apps, startups and technology Usually good things don’t stay the same, so our tutorial on building a JSON REST API server with Node.js and MongoDB using Mongoskin and Express.js, and testing it with Mocha and Superagent, has became a bit outdated with the new Express.js 4 version release. Here’s a brand new, revisited tutorial for Express.

webapplog [tech blog] Book author Azat Mardan writes about apps, startups and technology Recently we had to work on modification to accommodate Twitter API v1.1. The main difference between Twitter API v1.1 and, soon to be deprecated, Twitter API v1.0 is that most of the REST API endpoints now require user or application context. In other words, each call needs to be performed via OAuth 1.0A or OA

Tutorial: building a JSON REST API server with Node.js and MongoDB using Mongoskin and Express.js utilizing Mocha and Super Agent for BDD/TDD. Update3: Expess 4 version of this tutorial is available at Express.js 4, Node.js and MongoDB REST API Tutorial, and github.com/azat-co/rest-api-express (master branch). This tutorial will work with Express 3.x. Update2: “Mongoskin removed ‘db.collection.id’

webapplog [tech blog] Book author Azat Mardan writes about apps, startups and technology A list of Node.js frameworks. UPDATE: We created a new resource/registry at nodeframework.com. Sinatra like These frameworks offer rich configuration and are less opinionated than Rails-like or full-stack. http://expressjs.com Express.js is probably the most popular robust and mature framework http://spumko.gi

webapplog [tech blog] Book author Azat Mardan writes about apps, startups and technology As you know, there are two types of software engineers: those who use debuggers and the those who use logger statements. I am in the second camp myself, and not because I don’t know how to use a debugger (which can be tricky and probably worth writing another tip on) but because logs don’t break the flow of ex