Category: Web Development

Developing A RESTful API With Golang And A MongoDB NoSQL Database

June 27, 2019 (Updated) Nic Raboy

If you've been following along, you're probably familiar with my love of Node.js and the Go programming language. Over the past few weeks I've been writing a lot about API development with MongoDB and Node.js, but did you know that MongoDB also has an official SDK for Golang? As of now the SDK is in beta, but at least it exists and is progressing.

The good news is that it isn't difficult to develop with the Go SDK for MongoDB and you can accomplish quite a bit with it.

In this tutorial we're going to take a look at building a simple REST API that leverages the Go SDK for creating data and querying in a MongoDB NoSQL database.

Using Hapi.js, Mongoose, And MongoDB To Build A REST API

February 18, 2019 Nic Raboy

To continue on my trend of MongoDB with Node.js material, I thought it would be a good idea to use one of my favorite Node.js frameworks. Previously I had written about using Express.js with Mongoose, but this time I wanted to evaluate the same tasks using Hapi.js.

In this tutorial we're going to develop a simple RESTful API using Hapi.js, Joi and Mongoose as the backend framework, and MongoDB as the NoSQL database. Rather than just using Hapi.js as a drop in framework replacement, I wanted to improve upon what we had previously seen, by simplifying functions and validating client provided data.

Hash Password Data In MongoDB With Mongoose And Bcrypt

February 11, 2019 Nic Raboy

When creating a web application that handles user information it is a good idea to protect anything considered sensitive rather than storing it as plaintext within a database. The goal is to make it as difficult as possible for a malicious person to obtain access to this sensitive information. Rather than encrypting sensitive information with the knowledge that it can one day become decrypted, it is better to hash this sensitive data instead because hashing is a one-way process.

In this tutorial we're going to take a look at hashing password data with bcryptjs before storing it in a MongoDB NoSQL database with Mongoose and Node.js.

Building A REST API With MongoDB, Mongoose, And Node.js

February 4, 2019 Nic Raboy

About a week or so ago I had written a tutorial titled, Getting Started with MongoDB as a Docker Container Deployment, which focused on the deployment of MongoDB. In that tutorial we saw how to interact with the MongoDB instance using the shell client, but what if we wanted to actually develop a web application with MongoDB as our NoSQL database?

In this tutorial we're going to see how to develop a REST API with create, retrieve, update, and delete (CRUD) endpoints using Node.js and the very popular Mongoose object document modeler (ODM) to interact with MongoDB.

Query A GraphQL API With Vue.js And Axios

January 16, 2019 Nic Raboy

I've written quite a bit of content around developing a GraphQL API with various programming technologies such as Node.js, Golang, and Java. Heck, I even wrote an eBook on the subject titled, Web Services for the JavaScript Developer. However, I haven't really produced any content around interacting with those APIs using modern frameworks and client facing technologies, only cURL and Postman.

So how do you interact with a GraphQL API using something like Angular, React, or Vue.js?

There are a lot of frameworks to cover, but in this particular tutorial we're going to see how to use Vue.js and simple JavaScript to interact with a GraphQL API.

Perform Different Text Animations With jQuery

January 14, 2019 Nic Raboy

When it comes to my name, there is often a lot of confusion. On social media sites such as Twitter, GitHub, and similar, I often go by nraboy which is the first character of my first name (Nic) followed by my last name (Raboy). When people see that, they often think of The National Rifle Association (NRA), which is obviously unrelated to what I'm trying to present myself as. However, due to the NRA acronym being similar to my online handles, I get included on a lot of crazy conversations that I really don't want to be a part of. In fact, it is one of the main reasons why the blog was rebranded from blog.nraboy.com to thepolyglotdeveloper.com.

Out of this I decided to create an animation showing the obvious. Rather than putting my video editing skills to the test, I decided to create an animation using jQuery and simple JavaScript. In this tutorial we're going to play around with some text animations using jQuery.

Create Custom Shortcodes To Embed Content In Hugo Posts And Pages

January 9, 2019 Nic Raboy

I've mentioned this numerous times before, but The Polyglot Developer is powered by Hugo which is a static site generator that takes Markdown and converts it to HTML. While Markdown is easy to use and can accomplish quite a bit, the syntax doesn't accomplish everything that you'd hope to accomplish when it comes to a website. For example audio and video aren't a thing in Markdown while it is in HTML. So how do you add custom components to a Hugo article?

In Hugo, you can create what is called a shortcode, which is a custom tag that gets processed differently than standard Markdown syntax. We're going to see how to create shortcodes to take Hugo posts and pages to the next level.