Trust The Process
Andres Reales 
Looking to improve your skillset as a software engineer is always a good indicator you are passionate about developing software. One common question new developers tend to ask is whether they should commit to master branch their work. I hope this article provides you with meaningful insights into this practice. Master branch often reflects the … Read more
TypeScript has become an excellent alternative to prevent data type definition issues often found when working with JavaScript. Companies are migrating to TypeScript as the default programming language for their Node.js backend. However, developers struggle to set up local debugging configurations when using nodemon. In this article, you will learn how to fix that issue. … Read more
For those who have worked with JavaScript for a while, you will understand there are certain behaviors about the language that makes it seem it works in a certain way, when in reality it doesn’t, such as using == and === equals to check for equality between two different values. Against what many think, JavaScript … Read more
Whether you are coming from a different programming language like C# or you are a brand new programmer learning about JavaScript, you have probably seen different JavaScript codebases using in some cases double equals (==) and in other cases using triple equals (===). Although they seem similar at first, it is important to understand the … Read more
Note: This post is part of Learn How to Use TypeScript With Node.js and Express.js series. Click here to see the first post of the series. Getting Started First things first, we need to create the directory for our application: mkdir express-typescript Time to set up our package.json file where we can define all our … Read more
Note: This post is part of Learn How to Use TypeScript With Node.js and Express.js series. Click here to see the first post of the series. What is CRUD? CRUD stands for Create, Read, Update, and Delete and it is one of the most common operations done in software development. In fact, it is one … Read more
Note: This post is part of Learn How to Use TypeScript With Node.js and Express.js series. Click here to see the first post of the series. What is an Error Handler in Express.js? Error handlers in Express.js are in charge of catching and handing errors that happen during runtime. By default, Express.js provides with a … Read more
Note: This post is part of Learn How to Use TypeScript With Node.js and Express.js series. Click here to see the first post of the series. What Are Application-Level Middleware and Why Do We Need Them? Application-level middleware is a type of middleware that generally runs throughout the whole application. In the case of express.js, … Read more
Note: This post is part of Learn How to Use TypeScript With Node.js and Express.js series. Click here to see the first post of the series. Third-party middlewares are a good alternative when there is a package available out there offering functionality that our API will need such as allowing client access from different origins … Read more
Note: This post is part of Learn How to Use TypeScript With Node.js and Express.js series. Click here to see the first post of the series. What is a Middleware in Node.js/Express.js? A middleware is essential in the development of an application, in our case an API. As the name suggests, middleware is a process … Read more