Belgium has a long tradition of beer making. According to Wikipedia, the country counts over 1700 beers of various styles including Trappist, Abbey, Saisons, Lambic, Gueuze, Fruit Beers, White, Double, Triple, Quadruple, etc. I thought it would be fun to build an app that lets users search and explore this list in different ways: by […]
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Employee Directory Sample App with React and Node.js
A couple of weeks ago, I shared an Employee Directory sample application built with React in seven steps. Employee directory is a mobile app that allows you to look up employees by name, view the details of an employee, and call, text, or email an employee. In this post, I share a new version of […]
Employee Directory Sample App with Ionic and Node.js
It has been six months since I posted the first version of the Employee Directory app built with Ionic and AngularJS. Ionic has been moving fast, and it was time for an update. Employee directory is a sample application that allows you to look up employees by name, view the details of an employee, call, […]
How to Upload Pictures from a PhoneGap App to Amazon S3
In my previous post, I shared a sample application demonstrating how to upload pictures from a PhoneGap application to a Node.js server. If your application deals with lots of images, it may be a good idea to host them on a dedicated storage infrastructure like Amazon S3, and let your own server focus on delivering […]
How to upload pictures from a PhoneGap Application to Node.js (and other servers)
You have seen the demos showing you how to access your camera and take pictures from a PhoneGap application. But these demos often end there, and a number of people have asked me for an end-to-end example showing how to take pictures and upload them to a server. I created a simple app that I […]
Implementing RESTFul Services with Node.js and MongoDB
In my previous post, I shared a new version of the Employee Directory sample application. By default, the application uses an in-memory data store to provide a “download and run” experience (no need to set up a server or a database). In this post, I’ll show how to replace the in-memory data store with RESTful […]
Real Time Web Analytics with Node.js and Socket.IO
I’ve always enjoyed building real-time applications. A few years ago, I built the Java back-end for the Tour of California “Tour Tracker”, and over the years, I have also been involved in several real-time Trader Desktop projects that I documented in this blog. So I thought it would be nice to explore the process of […]
NodeCellar: Sample Application with Backbone.js, Twitter Bootstrap, Node.js, Express, and MongoDB
In my previous post, I shared my recent experience building a RESTful API with Node.js, MongoDB, and Express. In this post, I’m sharing the client application that uses that RESTful API. The Node Cellar application allows you to manage (retrieve, create, update, delete) the wines in a wine cellar database. (more…)
Creating a REST API using Node.js, Express, and MongoDB
I recently used Node.js, Express, and MongoDB to rewrite a RESTful API I had previously written in Java and PHP with MySQL (Java version, PHP version), and I thought I’d share the experience… Here is a quick guide showing how to build a RESTful API using Node.js, Express, and MongoDB. Installing Node.js Go to http://nodejs.org, […]
