In the vast expanse of web development, securing your backend services is paramount to ensure the safety and integrity of your application. For Node.js applications, one of the go-to packages for bolstering security is Helmet. Helmet helps you secure your Express apps by setting various HTTP headers. Let’s dive into how you can protect your Node.js API backend services using Helmet.
How to do Web Scraping using NodeJS: Extract Wikipedia Data with Cheerio.
Web scraping is a powerful technique for programmatically gathering data from websites. It’s particularly useful for extracting structured data from web pages, such as tables, lists, and paragraphs. In this article, we’ll explore how to scrape a table from Wikipedia using Node.js, focusing on the “Wikipedia:About” page as our example. We’ll use two popular Node.js libraries: axios for making HTTP requests and cheerio for parsing HTML and traversing the DOM.
Simplifying Online Payments: Integrating Stripe with Express.js
Introduction: In today's digital age, businesses rely heavily on online transactions to facilitate sales and services. However, managing payments securely and efficiently can be a daunting task. This is where payment gateways like Stripe come into play, offering a...
Authentication using JWT from ReactJS Single Page Application (SPA) to NodeJS/Express
In this tutorial we'll cover how to implement secure JWT authentication from ReactJS frontend with NodeJS/Express backend. As you are aware, JSON Web Tokens are an open, industry standard RFC 7519 method for representing claims securely between two parties Before we...
Implement Reset Password functionality in Node.js/ Express
Forgot password is basic functionality which all web/mobile applications has it. In this article we are going to show how to implement this in Node.js express framework.