Motivation: I was spending some time building specific authentication systems for different clients dependent on different factors. Some of them encompass the usage of access and refresh tokens which we can look into later, but for the majority of cases, there is a demand for persistent sessions where the user…

In the previous post, we looked at how to incorporate an authentication service utilizing Mongoose, Typescript, Node/Express and Passport. In this article, we will expand on our authentication service to allow users to reset their password. For a reference of the repository we are using, please see this branch. We…

JavaScript and Python a comparison of the two and their tooling within web applications. Author: Sherief Elsowiny Title: JavaScript and Python a comparison of the two and their tooling within web applications. Abstract: An exploration of the two programming languages Python and JavaScript looking under the hood of how it…

Blockchain implemented in Javascript tested using Postman and Jest Testing Framework Kavya Nannaka, Sherief Elsowiny We plan to implement both white box and black box testing and other various testing. In whitebox testing we will focus on code coverage. For blackbox testing, we aim to focus on testing the functional…

Carter H. Corneil, Sherief Elsowiny TSYS School of Computer Science Columbus State University Columbus, GA, USA corneil_carter@columbusstate.edu, elsowiny_sherief@columbusstate.edu Abstract- Blockchain has become a popular revolutionary technology in recent years, especially since the creation and rapid adoption of Bitcoin. One reason it has become well known is because it provides a…

Why is software testing so hard? As I scoured the internet in search of finding an answer to why software testing is so hard, I stumbled upon several articles relaying their experiences with why software testing has been so challenging to them in the past. To begin, we must first…

Microservices An example can be found here. https://github.com/elsowiny/MicroServicesExample What is a microservice? …Well think of the typical architecture that you use, which can be thought of as the monolithic architecture. In this monolithic architecture, we typically see a monolithic server, that may contain some middleware, a router, then different features…

With React.js , there are a few keywords that you may come across. Things such as component will unmount, state, props, use state. All this can seem confusing especially if you take it in all at once, but to simplify it here are some of the famous keywords explained. State State…

What is a blockchain? A blockchain is formally known as a type of data structure in which it is known to be distributed and decentralized. Now what does that mean exactly? Well according to Wiki, “A distributed ledger is a consensus of replicated, shared, and synchronized digital data geographically spread across multiple sites, countries…