Dec 1, 2020Create your family’s chore token in EthereumIn this story, I will show how I created my family's virtual chore token in to live in the Ethereum blockchain, there are two reasons why I created mine, 1) learn more about Ethereum and smart contracts, 2) pay our kids with AguilaCoin instead of fiat — AguilaCoin is the…Ethereum14 min read
Aug 1, 2020SpitBomb RebornA few weeks ago I showed my son a few of the games I created way back when I was at college, one was SpitBomb a multiplayer shooting game, we had a lot of fun playing for a few mins and then my son started suggesting improvements, I liked his…Java Script3 min read
May 20, 2020Add JWT Authentication to Node.jsIn my earlier story I wrote about how to best transfer from clients and how to best store passwords on the server side, you can check it our here, the next step up is to add authentication tokens, and I’m going to explain how to do that with JASON Web…Nodejs5 min read
May 7, 2020A safer way to deal with passwordsIf you turn on the Developer Tools and inspect the traffic when logging in to a website you’re going to be surprised to see that many websites for big companies are sending your password in plain text, yes plain text, ok ok, it’s encrypted but only for the middle-man, not…Pbkdf 27 min read
Published in JavaScript in Plain English·May 2, 2020Parsing post data 3 different ways in Node.js without third-party librariesapplication/json, application/x-www-form-urlencoded, and multipart/form-data — Alright, for this one I’ll be honest, it was not easy, because everywhere I looked there were solutions with third-party libraries or just partial theory information, and as you might already know, I’m learning Node.js and web technologies from scratch to know what’s going on under the hood. The full…Json8 min read
Apr 19, 2020How to enable browser caching from scratch in Node.jsFor this story I’m going to be reusing the example I wrote for How to encode Node.js …Nodejs5 min read
Apr 19, 2020How to encode Node.js response from scratchIn this story, I’ll be showing how to encode responses from Node.js using the built-in zlib library with gzip, deflate and br in a simple html site as shown below <html lang="en"> <head> <title>Encoding and Caching</title> </head> <body> <h3>Encoding & Caching Example</h3> <img id="ramboImg" alt="Rambo Gif" src="images/rambo.gif"/> </body> </html> But…Nodejs7 min read
Apr 11, 2020Upload and Download Round TripIn this story I’ll be showing how to upload an image to a node.js …Nodejs4 min read
Apr 5, 2020Upload files to Node.js without form and without third-party frameworksBefore jumping into Express or any other Node.js frameworks I want to learn a little low-level stuff so that I know what’s happening behind the scenes, so I decided to create a very simple app that shows an html with a button to select an image and then it uploads…Nodejs2 min read
Mar 27, 2020A deeper introduction to Node.js (Part 2)In this story I’m going to talk about npm and node.js configurations, if you would like to read the first part of this series, check out the part 1. Package Manager npm is the standard package manager for Node.js, it contains over 350k packages, there’s also another package manager called yarn, which…Nodejs4 min read
