I’m writing down some of the things I’ve picked up when I started to learn about Node, Express and Mongo. Here are all the post in the series: Doing stuff in the terminal is not scary at all npm is not only for getting packages Package.json is a mighty tool Git is not that hard, but I need to refresh my knowledge Callback function is cool stuff, and I even know how to write them mocha is cool both as framework and test runner Should is a nice way to do asserts monk is an easy way to access mongo Express is best without generators supertest is a nice way to test an api - this post This post is about a testing framework for HTTP: supertest. Really, I shouldn’t need to write anything more after stating the name of the module. That’s SUPER testing people. That’s all we really need… It’s called supertest since it...

I’m writing down some of the things I’ve picked up when I started to learn about Node, Express and Mongo. Here are all the post in the series: Doing stuff in the terminal is not scary at all npm is not only for getting packages Package.json is a mighty tool Git is not that hard, but I need to refresh my knowledge Callback function is cool stuff, and I even know how to write them mocha is cool both as framework and test runner Should is a nice way to do asserts monk is an easy way to access mongo Express is best without generators - this post supertest is a nice way to test an api This post is about the most commonly used web framework in Node: Express. Node in itself is pretty cool and the three-line web server is mind blowing at first sight. Pretty soon though you want something that...

I’m writing down some of the things I’ve picked up when I started to learn about Node, Express and Mongo. Here are all the post in the series: Doing stuff in the terminal is not scary at all npm is not only for getting packages Package.json is a mighty tool Git is not that hard, but I need to refresh my knowledge Callback function is cool stuff, and I even know how to write them mocha is cool both as framework and test runner Should is a nice way to do asserts monk is an easy way to access mongo - this post Express is best without generators supertest is a nice way to test an api This post is about monk, a nice framework that makes accessing MongoDb really easy. When doing database work with Node, the default option seems to be MongoDb. This is of course very natural since Mongo itself is Javascript...

I’m writing down some of the things I’ve picked up when I started to learn about Node, Express and Mongo. Here are all the post in the series: Doing stuff in the terminal is not scary at all npm is not only for getting packages Package.json is a mighty tool Git is not that hard, but I need to refresh my knowledge Callback function is cool stuff, and I even know how to write them mocha is cool both as framework and test runner Should is a nice way to do asserts - this post monk is an easy way to access mongo Express is best without generators supertest is a nice way to test an api This post is about an assertion framework that I’ve come to love; should.js. The thing with most Node packages is that they are quite small, often around 100-200 lines. They, in turn, make...

I’m writing down some of the things I’ve picked up when I started to learn about Node, Express and Mongo. Here are all the post in the series: Doing stuff in the terminal is not scary at all npm is not only for getting packages Package.json is a mighty tool Git is not that hard, but I need to refresh my knowledge Callback function is cool stuff, and I even know how to write them mocha is cool both as framework and test runner  - this post Should is a nice way to do asserts monk is an easy way to access mongo Express is best without generators supertest is a nice way to test an api When it comes to testing frameworks on the javascript and node stack it’s an abundance of choices, just like for any of your needs. Once again you need to look around, ask around and make up your...

I’m writing down some of the things I’ve picked up when I started to learn about Node, Express and Mongo. Here are all the post in the series: Doing stuff in the terminal is not scary at all npm is not only for getting packages Package.json is a mighty tool Git is not that hard, but I need to refresh my knowledge Callback function is cool stuff, and I even know how to write them - this post mocha is cool both as framework and test runner Should is a nice way to do asserts monk is an easy way to access mongo Express is best without generators supertest is a nice way to test an api This is not Node related but rather a Javascript thing that was something that I had a real hard time with at first. And I know that I should learn about promises, but I haven’t yet. Functions...

I’m writing down some of the things I’ve picked up when I started to learn about Node, Express and Mongo. Here are all the post in the series: Doing stuff in the terminal is not scary at all npm is not only for getting packages Package.json is a mighty tool Git is not that hard, but I need to refresh my knowledge - this post Callback function is cool stuff, and I even know how to write them mocha is cool both as framework and test runner Should is a nice way to do asserts monk is an easy way to access mongo Express is best without generators supertest is a nice way to test an api This post is not at all about Javascript or Node. But rather about git, that I use when doing Node… I’m using git for source control. That statement is more a less a given these days. Ha...

I’m writing down some of the things I’ve picked up when I started to learn about Node, Express and Mongo. Here are all the post in the series: Doing stuff in the terminal is not scary at all npm is not only for getting packages Package.json is a mighty tool - this post Git is not that hard, but I need to refresh my knowledge Callback function is cool stuff, and I even know how to write them mocha is cool both as framework and test runner Should is a nice way to do asserts monk is an easy way to access mongo Express is best without generators supertest is a nice way to test an api This post is about the package.json file that is more than first meets the eye. All node.js projects with any self-respect has a package.json. All npm-modules must have one. It’s a manifest file that holds various meta-data...

I’m writing down some of the things I’ve picked up when I started to learn about Node, Express and Mongo. Here are all the post in the series: Doing stuff in the terminal is not scary at all npm is not only for getting packages - this post Package.json is a mighty tool Git is not that hard, but I need to refresh my knowledge Callback function is cool stuff, and I even know how to write them mocha is cool both as framework and test runner Should is a nice way to do asserts monk is an easy way to access mongo Express is best without generators supertest is a nice way to test an api This post is about the Node Package Manager, npm, and some of it’s many features. Node is really cool, but without it’s package management system, npm, and the plethora of packages out there it would be pretty...

I’m writing down some of the things I’ve picked up when I started to learn about Node, Express and Mongo. Here are all the post in the series: Doing stuff in the terminal is not scary at all - this post npm is not only for getting packages Package.json is a mighty tool Git is not that hard, but I need to refresh my knowledge Callback function is cool stuff, and I even know how to write them mocha is cool both as framework and test runner Should is a nice way to do asserts monk is an easy way to access mongo Express is best without generators supertest is a nice way to test an api This post is about the terminal and how I got to use it more and more, with just a couple of simple commands. I’m a Microsoft developer and is used with Visual Studio. Very nice, very integrated...