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gitignore nodejs |how to ignore node_modules

April 9, 2021 ·  2 min read

This post talks about how to add .gitignore file to nodejs applications and it its contents. .gitignore is a file that contains entries of name of files and folder path which are ignored in a project while committing source code to nodejs projects. which files or folders are ignored in nodejs applications? dependencies log files dotenv environment variables configuration serverless folder IDE related configuration cache files typescript and javascript related files how to ignore node_module dependencies in gitignore files node_modules dependeices: There are lot of dependencies configured in package....

How to copy directory with npm script copyfiles npm

March 18, 2021 ·  3 min read

This tutorials covers how to copy files with script tags command in package.json copy files from one folder to other folder npm script to copy directory including nested directory There are many npm packages to copy files, In this example I am going to use copyFiles npm package. Advantages with npm copy As you are not worry about remembering the copy command in OS environment, This will take care of running on Windows, Mac, Unix flavours...

Sass compile and watch changes Nodejs|node-sass tutorial

February 4, 2021 ·  4 min read

Nodejs SASS npm library Sass is an pre-processor language that converted to CSS, It provides lot of features variables, inherence and mixins. SASS offers two different syntax and not covering detailed syntaxes in this post. SCSS SASS Sass is SASSY CSS with indent syntax, that means no braces,semicolons and only indentation. scss syntax is similar to CSS with braces and semicolons. Npm has a module called node-sass to convert SASS/SCSS into CSS files....

Nodejs, How to Convert Relative to Absolute path| Javascript

January 29, 2021 ·  2 min read

In this short tutorial, You will learn how to convert relative path to absolute path in Nodejs Application with example. absolute path and relative path in Nodejs Absolute path is path of the resource starts from application root, always starts with /. Relative path is path of of the resource relative path of an resource, it will not starts with /. For example, Let’s have a NodeJS application has directory or folder structure as follows...

Nodejs, How to Convert word document to pdf | Javascript

January 28, 2021 ·  3 min read

In this post, You will learn how to convert docx file to pdf document in JavaScript and nodejs. Docx/doc are document file formats from Microsoft, contains images, text, tables and styles PDF files are from Adobe company, which is separate format for representing the content of images, texts and styles There are lot of online tools to do the conversion doc to pdf. Sometimes, As a programmer you need to have a conversion of different formats in the JavaScript/NodeJS applications....

Nodejs, How to Convert Buffer to ArrayBuffer

January 27, 2021 ·  2 min read

In this post, Learn how to convert buffer to/from ArrayBuffer in Nodejs application with example. Buffer is an object in Nodejs to represent fixed length of bytes. ArrayBuffer is also stores the fixed length of array of binary bytes data in javascript. Data inside arrayBuffer can not be read directly but you can use Data view Object or typed array only. Some of typed Arrays are Int8Array, UInt8Array, Float32Array etc.....

How to measure time taken by function to execute Javascript

January 26, 2021 ·  3 min read

In this blog post, JavaScript offers ways to calculate measure (elapsed) time taken by a function execution in JavaScript and NodeJS. Sometimes, we need to know function execution time while profiling an JavaScript application for performance improvements This will be very useful to pin point the problem method for time taken. Time elapse taken in JavaScript Measuring time in NodeJS. How to measure time taken for function execution using console object Console object is inbuilt JavaScript object useful for getting debugging information during development....

How to update dependency to latest in nodejs|npm outdated

January 5, 2021 ·  4 min read

In My previous nodejs application, I have a need to convert all dependencies to latest. This blog talks about how to upgrade all your packages to latest version This post solves developers questions while nodejs update latest packages How do update each dependency in package.json how to update all packages manually or automatically how update global packages to latest versions update dependencies and devdependencies Nodejs project all dependencies maintained in package....

Dependencies vs devDependencies vs peerDependencies in Nodejs

March 12, 2020 ·  3 min read

Define dependency in nodejs application. In Nodejs projects, npm is the default package manager to manage the dependencies. In every application development on any language, dependencies are required to build and start running the application. Every application has a dependency tree that contains all direct and indirect dependencies. Dependency is a module or library code that is required to execute the application. each dependency is also called a package, which can be declared in a package with each object contains the name and version....

How to check the built nodejs environments v8 engine version

March 11, 2020 ·  2 min read

The V8 engine is used internally by Nodejs, a javascript runtime environment. Every year, JavaScript introduces new features; to implement these features into a nodejs project, we need to use either babel plugins or a v8 engine version that supports the new javascript features. This post discusses various methods for showing the V8 version of the Nodejs Environment. The command-line utilities node and npm are included with Nodejs. **How to check the Node and npm tools version?...

Fix for error package.json not found in npm install running

October 23, 2018 ·  3 min read

In this blog post, We are going to learn how to fix package.json not found in npm command. npm install package.json error package.json is a JSON configuration file of a nodejs project which contains metadata of an application + dependencies etc. In NPM based applications like nodejs, Angular, VueJS and ReactJS applications, package.json file location is the application root When you are creating a new project manually or when installing dependencies of a project we used to get the following errors...

npm-check-updates update paclages in package.json|bower.json

October 16, 2018 ·  3 min read

In this blog post, We are going to learn npm-check-updates npm package to update dependencies in package.json and bower.json. npm-check-updates npm package  npm check updates package is used to check all dependencies in package.json of a node js project and update dependencies to latest versions. This package works by updating following configuration files package.json  bower.json This library solves all below problems of a NodeJS application How to update all dependencies in package....

Guide to Package.json file tutorial in Nodejs Applications

October 15, 2018 ·  6 min read

In this blog post, We are going to learn package.json tutorials with examples Package.json file  package.json is a JSON configuration file of a nodejs and javascript based projects. which contains key and value of elements of a Nodejs based applications. This always contains in application root folder. This will be used by npm command for build/start/testing your javascript based applications. This will help other developers to track the application dependencies and versions...

Understand nodejs Basics - webserver tutorial

August 3, 2018 ·  2 min read

Understanding Nodejs  Nodejs is an opensource framework for building Server-side applications based on javascript. It is javascript runtime based on Chrome V8 Javascript engine. Basically, You can write your own web server using this environment. Nodejs is growing popular day by day because of its features, simplicity, and architecture. Nodejs can be run on any operating System like Windows, MacOS, and Linux/Unix/Ubuntu. It is platform Independent. Nodejs Advantages or pros Provides Non-Blocking and Event-Drive programming features to handle the concurrent request It is based on javascript Scalable and network applications can build with simple code Simple to learn It is a single threaded model Performance is very good as it uses javascript in the server side Disadvantages or cons Learning Curve Not suitable for Multithreaded Model Not enough tools  Basic Web server Example the web server is a server which clients send the request to the server, in turns server returns response....

Learn Lodash in Nodejs with examples

July 31, 2018 ·  4 min read

We already covered some basics of lodash library in front-end applications. The below posts cover the basic usage in Client-side applications 1. Learn Lodash basics with examples 2. Import Lodash in Angular applications This article walks through the how we can use lodash in backend application using nodejs Nodejs environment has node package manager tool which is prerequisite before start using. Please make sure that npm –version command works as below....

Top nodejs node and npm command line tools tutorials

July 10, 2016 ·  3 min read

Basics of Nodejs Server Nodejs is a server platform for deploying web applications using javascript. Nodejs server is very famous in the current industry for asynchronous request processing We can use nodejs for streaming-based applications. NodeJS is a free and opensource application to develop server-side applications Nodejs is popular because of event-driven and modularity based architecture Nodejs installation comes node and node packaging manager (NPM) tools. Npm is a node package manager which is the command line for the nodejs runtime environment....

Nodejs, How to Convert xml to CSV| Javascript

January 1, 0001 ·  1 min read

Nodejs Application First, Let’s create a nodejs applicaiton using npm init command npm init npm init -Y T This command creates nodejs application with all default values Next, Install @wmfs/xml2csv depedency to applicaiton using below command npm install xml2csv --save This adds depdency in package.js as follows "dependencies": { "xml2csv": "^1.0.1" } How to Convert XML to CSV in Nodejs...