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Docker Compose is a powerful tool that allows you to define and run multi-container Docker applications. One of the key features of Docker Compose is the depends_on option, which allows you to specify dependencies between services. In this beginner's guide, you will explore how to use depends_on effectively, ensuring your services start up in the correct order and function seamlessly. Let’s get started!!

MongoDB is an open-source document database that is designed to scale and provide high availability. In this guide, you will learn how to run MongoDB with Docker and Docker Compose. Let's get going!

Inquirer.js is a useful NPM package to create Command Line Interface (CLI) apps with Node.js. You can make interactive interfaces by using Inquirer with questions of type option, list, checkbox, input, etc. This makes the CLI application built in Node.js with Inquirer.js useful. In this guide, you will learn how to create a basic CLI app in Node.js with Inquirer.js, let’s get started!

The TypeScript Record type is a utility type that can be used as a structured dictionary. You can construct a new Type with the allowed Keys and values types In this post, you will learn how to use the TypeScript record type to represent some data and how it translates to compiled JavaScript. Let’s get going!

Axios is one of the most popular JavaScript libraries to perform HTTP requests. Axios interceptors are powerful mechanisms built into Axios for making changes to requests and responses in a non-intrusive way. In this guide, you will walk through the basics of Axios interceptors and step through a useful example of how they can be used. By the end, you should have a good understanding of how to use Axios interceptors in your own applications. Let’s get started!

Writing and parsing XML files with Node.js might not be one of the first things that strike your mind. On the contrary, the Fast XML parser has millions of downloads per week on NPM. In this post, you will learn how to validate and parse XML with Node.js. You will also learn to generate an XML file from JavaScript objects. Let's get started!

Axios is one of the most popular JavaScript libraries to do HTTP requests. It is an HTTP client available for both the browser and Node.js. Setting Axios timeout properly makes your application perform efficiently even when the called API/URL is not responding in a timely manner. In this post, you will learn about Axios, its configs, and how to set Axios timeout properly to not hamper your application’s performance. Let’s get going.

Imagine your console.log being able to show multiple colors. Not only would it be colorful but it will also be helpful. This is where the NPM chalk module comes in very handy. With the NPM chalk module, you can sprinkle multiple colors to your boring black-and-white console output and format the text.
In this post, you will learn how to install and use the NPM chalk module to colorize your console output. Let’s get started!

Two or more NPM commands can be run simultaneously with the NPM concurrently package. A simple use case for this can be when you want to run the server and the client in parallel for a JavaScript project. In this post, you will learn how to use the concurrently NPM package for running two or more NPM commands simultaneously, let's get going!

Node.js is the defacto JavaScript runtime for the backend. In this post, you will learn about newer Node.js alternatives Deno and Bun with a simple Joke API code example and how to host it. Let's get started!

Call it a wait, sleep, or delay in executing code in JavaScript. It can be done in multiple ways in JavaScript on the browser and Node.js. In this post, you will learn how to wait for 1 (or x) second in Javascript using setTimeout, promise, and Delay NPM package with a working code example. Let’s get started!

Jest has been the tool of choice for writing tests in JavaScript for years now. This guide will teach you how to run a single test using Jest. Let’s get going!

Jest is the most used JavaScript testing framework. In this post, you will learn how to use Jest toHaveBeenCalledWith for testing various scenarios like a partial array, partial object, multiple calls, etc. Let’s get started!

Async execution and promises are not easy to understand in any language and JavaScript is no exception. In this post, we will dissect how JavaScript Promise.all function works visually and with a real-life code example, let’s get started!

Jest is one of the most popular testing frameworks in JavaScript. In this post, we will delve into using Jest beforeEach properly to make unit testing better with JavaScript, let’s get going!

TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that has climbed up in popularity in the past few years. In this post, we will learn how to use optional parameters in Typescirpt functions, let’s get started!

Node.js can be used for a multitude of things, file handling is one of them. In this post, we will learn how to append to a file using Node.js. It can be done with callback, promise (async/await) as well as in a sync way, let’s get going!

Node.js can be used for multiple purposes, creating a Command Line Interface (CLI) app is one of them. With the Node.js Readline native module, we can create CLI apps. In this post, we will learn how to create a basic Node.js CLI app using the latest Readline on Node 17 with promises and async/await. Let’s get started!

MySQL is one of the most popular relational databases of all time. Using MySQL with Docker and docker-compose makes it very easy and fast to test out any changes in any application using MySQL as the database. In this tutorial, we will detail how to use MySQL with Docker and docker-compose step-by-step keeping things easy to comprehend. Let’s get rolling!

Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) is very useful. In Node.js there are many ways to generate a UUID. One of them is with a native module and others are using NPM packages. UUID can be very useful as reliable unique identifiers. In this post, you will learn how to generate a UUID using Node.js and briefly understand when and why to use them. Let’s get started!

Redis is an open-source in-memory datastore used as a database, cache, and even a message broker. Redis can be used easily with docker and docker-compose for local development as a cache to a web application. In this post, we will set up Redis with docker and docker-compose, where Redis will be used as a cache for a Node.js/Express.js REST API with PostgreSQL as the main database, let’s get started!

Running Postgres with Docker and docker-compose makes it very easy to run and maintain especially in a development environment. In this post, we will look into how to run and use Postgres with Docker and Docker compose step-by-step keeping things simple and easy. Let’s get started!

JavaScript Sets are a new type of object (with ES6) that allows creating a collection of unique values. The values stored in a set can either be primitives like strings or integers or more complex types like arrays or objects. In this post, we will look into how to use Sets from a beginner’s point of view, let’s get started!

Comma-separated values more commonly known as CSV has been used for a long time as a standard text-based way to represent and transfer data. There are many ways to read and write CSV files in Node.js. In this post, we will learn how to read a CSV and write a CSV file using Node.js in an efficient way. Let’s get rolling.

eature flags help us turn a feature on or off without the need to deploy any code. Node.js feature flags also enable the same. In this post, we will discuss a practical example in a Node.js express application to show and hide some footer icons depending on a Flagsmith feature flag. Let’s get rolling!

Node.js can be used very well with relational databases and SQLite is no exception. In this post, we will build a simple REST API for Quotes step-by-step with SQLite and Node.js using the Express Js framework step-by-step.

Reading the whole file at once will make the process memory intensive. With the ability to load and read a file line by line it enables us to stop the process at any step as per need. In this post, we will look into 3 ways to read a file line by line using Node.js with memory usage comparison.

Learn how to scrape any webpage with or without Javascript rendering using Node.js. This tutorial will be the only guide you need to start web scraping with Node.js successfully.

Using RabbitMQ with Node.js to offload the things to process in the background is very useful. Adding Docker and docker-compose in that mix for local development makes setting up RabbitMQ and node.js a breeze. In this post, we will explore how to set up RabbitMQ and Node.js with docker and docker-compose using a dummy send email example, let's get rolling!

In this Node.js Express tutorial, we will build a mock landing page that can collect the email addresses of people interested to be notified of the launch of our imaginary podcast about headphones with Pug templating. Let’s get started.