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Passing Input to Azure APIM Policy Fragment

Jan 20, 2024 | 2 min read | 1664 Views | Comments

Azure APIM policy fragment enables you to define policy once and use it till eternity. In this article, we will understand the creation of a policy fragment and a way to pass input to them.

Creating Validate JWT Policy in Azure APIM

Dec 27, 2023 | 3 min read | 1825 Views | Comments

Validating JWT is nothing new in the context of API development. Thousands of tokens been validated right now while you are reading this text. Azure APIM makes your life easy for API development by allowing you to create a validate-jwt policy to perform such a necessary task. In this article, we will understand how to create such policy under Azure APIM.

React Journey: Part 5 - Context API

Oct 08, 2023 | 8 min read | 746 Views | Comments

Every journey ends somewhere. Our React journey will come to an end with 360-degree shift in our previous approaches of communicating between components. Don't get afraid, this change is helpful and a must for our growing apps. In this article, we will touch base and talk about the concept of Context API in React and how it can allow to manage props and states like a pro.

React Journey: Part 4 - Working with Web API

Sep 21, 2023 | 6 min read | 655 Views | Comments

There is no app existence without communicating server or at least a fake server. In our React learning journey we will now make our Notesy app to communicate to API even though its fake. In this article, we will make use of json-server to create API endpoint for our Notesy app and make our create, read, delete operation little dynamic.

ISRO React App - Working on the Components - Part 2

Aug 03, 2023 | 7 min read | 634 Views | Comments

The time has brought us to talk about the components of ISRO React App. In this article we will continue to talk about the remnants of the app. How the services been created, what are the components present to show the listing of ISRO API data.

ISRO React App - Initial Setup - Part 1

Aug 01, 2023 | 5 min read | 826 Views | Comments

Hats off to amazing ISRO team to their ongoing space missions. There is an amazing ISRO API available to use for the folks who admire ISRO and their contributions. In this article we will talk about the app created using React that consumes the ISRO API endpoints. The React ISRO App is also based on Vite, Typescript, Redux, TailwindCSS, DaisyUI and some other cool techs. The app will help to explore the ISRO API along with the React UI ecosystem.

Cache Angular HTTP request using @ngneat/cashew

May 23, 2023 | 4 min read | 1771 Views | Comments

The time of not wasting time on caching HTTP request data has come. Presenting @ngneat/cashew package to do the needfully; it takes our stress of manually creating service variables to hold up the HTTP requests data again and again. In this article we will explore @ngneat/cashew dope package for caching HTTP requests.

NodeJS and MSSQL Connection Pool

Mar 02, 2022 | 9 min read | 11867 Views | Comments

In the season of summer, the pool becomes overcrowded and needs to be managed properly; this is not the case for other seasons. On the other hand, the database connections pool needs to be managed irrespective of the seasons. So the need of the hour is to manage these connection pools in order to maintain multiple databases connections, their opening/closing, configurations, etc. In this article, we will understand how to manage NodeJS and MSSQL connection pools like a pro.

Data Access Layer for NodeJS and MSSQL - Part 2

Feb 06, 2022 | 6 min read | 2544 Views | Comments

If you like action sequences, this read will definitely give you chills. In this article, without wasting your precious time we will jump straight to the business and understand how to use our bare minimum data access layer which we have built previously.

Data Access Layer for NodeJS and MSSQL - Part 1

Dec 06, 2021 | 10 min read | 5250 Views | Comments

Building a bare minimum data access layer for NodeJS and MSSQL for applications that scream for simplicity. Just like any other layered cake, applications also come in layers Data Access Layer (DAL), Business Access Layer (BAL), Presentation/UI Layer (PL), API Layers, etc. In this article, we are picking up the brush and painting our own data access layer for NodeJS and MS SQL Server.

The file melting Multer with NodeJS and Express

Aug 18, 2021 | 8 min read | 2397 Views | Comments

Multer is a mature multipart/form-data supreme middleware for Node.js. Its been there for a long time, already explored and discussed by many elite developers. In this article, we will revisit the core capabilities of the Multer and will explore scenarios like single/multiple file upload using forms or AJAX.

NgMarvel app using Angular and Marvel API

Jul 12, 2021 | 12 min read | 2999 Views | Comments

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade; and when Marvel provides you an API, make an Angular app. In this article, we will do the Hulk Smash! and create an awesome Marvel comic explorer app using Angular and Marvel Comics API.

Pokedex using Angular and Bootstrap with PokeAPI

Feb 28, 2021 | 9 min read | 11225 Views | Comments

Squirtle, without a doubt, is my favorite Pokemon and I am open for a debate. You can check the Pokedex on your own or create a Pokedex on your own. Let us talk about the second option in this article, and with the help of PokeAPI, Angular and Bootstrap such crazy demands can be achieved.

Crafting paginated API with NodeJS and MSSQL

Jan 27, 2021 | 6 min read | 6756 Views | Comments

Paging, sorting and filtering seems too much to handle for a single soul; but the soul of a programmer craves for such trouble. When you have tons of data to show in a grid/table provided with filtering and sorting options then there is no option left to leave these duties to your backend. In this article we will see NodeJS with MSSQL acting as backend and fabricate a paginated, sort and filter enabled API.

Calling Stored Procedure with NodeJS and MSSQL

Dec 31, 2020 | 6 min read | 40728 Views | Comments

Stored procedures, bringing bread and butter for many full stackers. They are the heavy lifters, holds up many business logics, handles input/outputs, returns multiple record sets and tons of more features. Why in this world, one will avoid the communication to happen between the super heroic NodeJS and MSSQL stored procs. In this article we will highlight most of the common scenarios we deal with while calling stored procs with NodeJS and MSSQL.

Teaming up with NodeJS and SQL Server

Dec 24, 2020 | 10 min read | 6970 Views | Comments

It's always satisfying to watch our backend connecting to the database server in one go. Within this short life span we come across different weirdo errors and issues while making the simplest form of connection to a database server; teaming up NodeJS with MS SQL Server is no different. In this article will make a smooth connection between NodeJS and MSSQL, and perform the decade old tradition (CRUD).

Calling API from NodeJS API using Axios

Sep 18, 2020 | 4 min read | 9569 Views | Comments

I found Axios a great library to make calls to a third party API, it's easy to understand, demands lesser coding, Promise me to return the data, works perfectly with a async/await style, get along with TypeScript.

Getting Started with NodeJS Express using TypeScript

Aug 22, 2020 | 6 min read | 8921 Views | Comments

TypeScript teaches some manners to write JavaScript code. A well written JavaScript code (TypeScript) grabs many attention in the party; so why not we simply include TypeScript to write Nodes Express APIs? Great idea! And both NodeJS and Express play very well with this decision.

JavaScript XHR using JSONPlaceholder API

Aug 06, 2020 | 8 min read | 6849 Views | Comments

Sometimes it is very important to know how things are happening on the ground level. This article will talk about how to use XHR - XMLHttpRequest in vanilla JavaScript with the help of most loved REST API; JSONPlaceholder.