Today, we are going to discuss testing in JavaScript and help you start your journey towards understanding and mastering it. Testing is one of the most important topics in software development, but a lot of developers still shy away from it. This article is here to change that. The primary…

Set up a basic server, connect to it, and work with your first documents — To set up MongoDB, we just need to download the installer and execute it. If you need any help installing MongoDB, I can only recommend visiting the official documentation or this blog post by London App Brewery about installing MongoDB on Windows. After installing it, we can take a look…

Everything you need to know about Docker Swarm and how to use it to scale and securely maintain your Docker projects — With applications needing more and more computing resources and an uptime of nearly 100%, it becomes very hard to maintain and scale your software without some kind of management system. This is where Docker Swarm comes into play. …

Introduction to Github Actions that looks at the core concepts and why they are so useful. — Github Actions enables you to create custom software development lifecycle workflows directly in your Github repository. These workflows are made out of different tasks so-called actions that can be run automatically on certain events. This enables you to include Continues Integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) capabilities and many other…

Build your own open-source CMS — Ghost is an open-source platform for building and running a modern online publication. It powers blogs, magazines, and journalists from Zappos to Sky News. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to set up Ghost on your local machine and use its API to build a blog in Nuxt.js. Why Should You Use Ghost? Now, the…

How to develop a simple file-uploading app — This guide will show you how you can implement file uploading into your NestJS application and the things you should keep in mind when doing so. You will develop an application with three endpoints that will do the following: Upload an image; Upload multiple images; Get the image using the…

The most important concepts of Prisma and building a sample application — Prisma is a modern ORM replacement that turns a database into a fully functional GraphQL, REST, or gRPC API. It provides powerful abstractions and building blocks to develop flexible and scalable backends. In this piece, we will take a look at the most important concepts of Prisma and even build…

A step by step guide — Websockets is a communication protocol which provides full-duplex communication channels over a single TCP connection established between a web browser and a web server. This allows the server to send to the browser without being called by the client. Today, we are going to take a look at how we…