Node.js is one of the many flavors of JavaScript Metal Toad has worked with and documented over the years. Not to be starting a holy war or anything, but our current favorite is React JS. Enjoy!
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Angular 5: Making API calls with the HttpClient service
Note to readers, May 18, 2018: the code in this post is built for Angular 5.x. The same techniques will work with Angular 6 as long as you use the rxjs-compat Node package.
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Instant reload with Django, NPM, and Browsersync
Here at Metal Toad, we are starting to use NPM as a task runner to automate our development processes. This tutorial shows how to automate CSS compilation and instantly reload the browser when files change.
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Running a Persistant Node.js Server on an Arduino Yún
We recently had occasion to set up a Node.js web server on an Arduino Yún. It's a bit more complicated than we thought when we set out, so it seemed useful to share the process.
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PlaceZombies.com!
Who can resist zombies? They’re everywhere! But on the internet, they are facing an uphill battle against the kittehs. They were dealt a heavy blow with the release of placekitten.com which allowed developers of all sorts to add kittens to their site with a simple URL. But now the zombies are ready to strike back. U CAN HAZ ZOMBIES!
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Using Node and CouchDB to get things done
As I mentioned earlier, I love JavaScript. Today, I'd like to talk about how to use it to get (fun) things done. We are going to make a node data-mining script, and store its work in couch.
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Getting Serious Using Javascript with node.js and couchdb
I love CouchDB and node.js.