Scott Smith

[...] applications, the four steps shown here will get you pretty far along in building a secure web application. HTTPS One of the first steps you should take to secure your web application is to use HTTPS. [...]

[...] -site scripting (XSS), script injection, clickjacking, insecure requests, and identifying web application frameworks to name a few. In my previous article, 4 Simple Steps to Secure Your Express Node [...]

[...] this trend and start a multi part tutorial series on how to create a production ready Node web application. Some of you may know about my latest project Favatron. It is a Node web application that [...]

[...] for creating your first index. Quick start with sample data Upload your own data via the web application Use of the API clients to get started For this tutorial we will use the sample data option. [...]

[...] The Visual Studio Engineering Team has released the productivity power tools for Visual Studio 2012. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/11/07/productivity-power-tools-2012. [...]

[...] the markup for you. There are addons to many IDEs, tools, and editors for Zen Coding including Visual Studio, Sublime Text 2, Coda, … Learn more here: https://github.com/sergeche/zen-coding [...]

[...] and tutorial, we will be focusing on Hubs. Time to Code For this tutorial, we will be using Visual Studio 2012 with ASP.NET MVC 4. Step 1 - Create an empty ASP.NET MVC 4 web application File -> [...]

[...] Welcome back to our next installment of the Beer Locker series! In our previous article we explored implementing Digest authentication in place of Basic. This article will now [...]

[...] In our previous article we left off with a basic Node applicaton in place capable of accepting HTTP requests and [...]

[...] In our previous article we ended wtih a functional API capable of creating user accounts, locking down API endpoints, [...]

[...] In our previous article we learned how to easily add Algolia’s real time search to our web application. We kept it [...]

[...] . We will be requiring more packages here as we add more complexity to our application. Express Application The Express Application is the main component for your web application. Among other things, [...]

[...] need to install the Jade npm package. What we did was add two pieces of middleware to our Express application. First, we told it to set the directory for our views to /views. Second, we told it to use [...]

[...] . For now, we have this in place and can move on to the next piece. Enable sessions for our express application OAuth2orize requires session state for the express application in order to properly [...]

[...] . We will be requiring more packages here as we add more complexity to our application. Express Application The Express Application is the main component for your web application. Among other things, [...]

In our previous article we ended wtih a fairly functional API capable of adding, removing, updating, and viewing beer. In this part we will dive into [...]

[...] of creating user accounts, locking down API endpoints, only allowing access to a user’s own beer locker, and an OAuth2 server. Many readers have asked questions about how to use different [...]

[...] JSON. In this part we will dive a bit deeper and learn how to implement CRUD operations on our beer locker. By the end of this article you will have learned how to connect to a MongoDB, used Mongoose [...]

With an ever growing collection of beer, I am in dire need of a way to store and track my beer. What better way to do this than to create an applicati [...]

[...] own lockers and control who has access to mine. In this multipart series we’ll be creating a RESTful API using Node, Express, Mongoose to interact with MongoDB, Passport for authentication, [...]

[...] authentication. As stated before, this type of authentication may not make the most sense for a RESTful API. Of the two, query string makes more sense but it is still risky because you are sending the [...]

In our previous article we left off with a basic Node applicaton in place capable of accepting HTTP requests and responding back with some static JSON [...]

In our previous article we ended wtih a fairly functional API capable of adding, removing, updating, and viewing beer. In this part we will dive into [...]

[...] model for use within our application. The last step is to load this new beer model in our server.js file. Get ready to accept data via POST or PUT In order to accept data via POST or PUT, we need to [...]

[...] to define our routes so that we can add and view users by making calls to our API. In the server.js file, update the code to require the new controller and include the new routes. You should now be [...]

[...] is an API if we aren’t actually serving something?! If you haven’t already created the server.js file, create it now in the root of your Node application. Add the following code to your [...]

[...] clients and get all existing ones for the authenticated user. Finally, in the server.js file we need to require the new controller and add some new routes for the two endpoints. [...]

[...] . This is also useful when working with other developers who may get a copy of your source code but not the node_modules folder. By having these dependencies listed, they can simply run [...]

[...] part where we will add the ability to create, view, update, and remove beer from our locker. Source code for this part can be found here on GitHub. [...]

[...] Locker. Up next will be diving into creating user accounts and authenticaion using Passport. Source code for this part can be found here on GitHub. [...]

[...] are certain topics you would like me to write on, feel free to leave comments and let me know. Source code for this part can be found here on GitHub. [...]

[...] functionality to support DELETE requests to our endpoint we used for GET and PUT. Update server.js. Just like our PUT, DELETE uses the id passed in. We then use the Mongoose findByIdAndRemove [...]

[...] -session package. Next we need to require the package and use it in our express application. Update server.js with the following code. Create our OAuth2 controller We are finally ready to create our [...]

[...] , CSS, JavaScript, etc. To do this we will need to use the Express static middleware. Update server.js with the following code. What we have done here is register the static middleware with [...]

[...] code can be used within your own Parse Cloud Code functions to perform a reindexing. Add or Update Data Now, we need to handle the case where data is being added or updated. We can easily setup our [...]

[...] code once is is done because the event will continue to fire each time data is added. Add or Update Data Now, we need to handle the case where data is being added or updated. We can easily setup our [...]