Introduction When we write software we generally want to organize our data into objects with certain properties that describe both it and what it can do. The practice of Object Oriented Programming (or OOP) has been around for ages, and is a method generally used to accomplish this goal. It is…

Introduction An important aspect of creating web applications is learning how to manage data. In a previous article I showed how user submitted data can be stored in memory using the Express framework. This of course is not best practice due to all information being lost whenever the server goes down…

Introduction For those who wish to use MySQL to interact with their database on an Ubuntu machine the process can be a bit challenging. I recently went through this process using Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS and thought I’d share my experience. For this article I am expecting that my readers are familiar…

Introduction These days practically every website you use involves creating an account. This generally involves creating a username and a password. Managing all of these passwords can be tricky, and using the same one for everything is a dangerous practice. Typically most sites provide another option and that is to sign…

Introduction Express is a web framework built on top of the Javascript run time environment known as Node. As discussed in a previous blog post Express can be used to serve html. Once we begin to use Express to serve multiple files of html however we run into a problem. How…

Introduction As far as web frameworks go, Express.js is a very popular option. As I’ve written about in a previous blog post, Express.js can easily be used to serve static html pages. Writing all of this html by hand however can become quite cumbersome as well as limiting in what you…

Introduction Previously I have written a blog post discussing the Javascript run time environment NodeJS. Afterwards I wrote about the web framework built on top of it called Express. Within that blog post I showed some examples of how you can use Express to serve a line or two of html…

Introduction If you are into software development you have no doubt heard of the Javascript runtime environment known as NodeJS. I even tried to provide a glimpse of how this technology can be utilized to interact with local files and also serve html as a server in a previous article. In…

Introduction As far as web frameworks go React-Native provides obvious advantages. The most obvious one is the ability to develop native apps for mobile devices while at the same time creating a web app to be run on a PCs browser. As I have mentioned in past articles React-Native makes use…