Heroku is a great solution for developers. Recently having deployed a customer referral application, I wrote up this tutorial to serve as an additional resource to the documentation the next time you are deploying your Node and MongoDB app Application Setup First, it will help a lot to set up the MongoDB…

Hashing vs. Encryption Once a password is hashed, the hashed value that is returned cannot be changed back to the password. It’s mathematically impossible to revert it. However, encryption is reversible. The returned value from encryption can be reverted given you know the encryption key. Good databases will only stored…

Want to use a MongoDB database for your next NodeJs project? Here, I’ll walk through the setup that needed (Mongoose) and how to easily integrate Mongoose with Express. Setup Then install the mongoose dependencies npm install --save mongoose and, npm install --save bluebird We’ll be using bluebird as the promise library…

Utilizing SQL for NodeJs is something that will take a bit of setup. Unlike Ruby on Rails projects with allow you to use their awesome Active Record ORM, NodeJs doesn’t have any ORMs that are as easy to use. For those who are unfamiliar with ORMs, here’s a quick explanation: …

This is the quick framework I often use to think about algorithm problems. At any of these steps feel free to ask for help from the interviewer or say you don’t think you understand something — hints may be given! Create a brute force implementation For example, using a question from InterviewCake: Each breakfast delivery…

Recently I’ve been refreshing my MongoDB knowledge and learning more about its queries for a new project. So I wanted to make a tutorial I can refer back to myself. Hopefully this tutorial will also help other developers and MongoDB beginners understand MongoDB queries and better utilize the docs! Before…