Over the past five years, GraphQL has established itself as the most popular alternative to REST APIs. GraphQL has several advantages over traditional REST-based services. First of all, GraphQL makes the query schema available to the clients. A client that reads the schema immediately knows what services are available on…
Read moreNodeJS + Express is a popular technology stack for building APIs and backend services. Often times a backend database is required. There are several popular relational databases used in both enterprise and hobby projects. MySQL's spike in popularity came with the rise of PHP during the early 2000s and today…
Read moreDuring the past 10 years or so, the concept of REST APIs for web services has become the bread and butter for most web developers. Recently a new concept has emerged, GraphQL. GraphQL is a query language that was invented by Facebook and released to the public in 2015. During…
Read moreIf you've done any significant Node development in the past seven or eight years, you've probably used Express to build a web server at some point. While you can create a server in Node without using a library, it doesn't give you a lot out of the box and can…
Read moreIf you've ever spent time trying to figure out the best way to handle user authentication for your Node app and been confused: you're not alone. Over the last few years, authentication practices have changed quite a bit.
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Holger Schmitz 
Ivo Katunaric 
Lee Brandt 
Randall Degges