At Shockoe we're used to integrating our clients' complicated backend systems into our apps, and this often includes push notifications. However, to get that initial proof that our app is playing nicely with GCM and APNS we'll sometimes rig up a sandbox server of our...
If you have been following along with our series on how to create your own web server, you should now be familiar with node.js and Express. Node.js lays the groundwork for the web server and Express builds upon it. If you haven’t already, I recommend that you...
The last few weeks we have focused on web service design using Node.js with Express. So far we have covered getting started with express, using EJS to create web pages, and creating a push notification server. Today we will go over how to save data on your node...
This week we continue our series on building better web services with Node.js by taking a look at the Express web application framework. Unfamiliar with Node? Take a look at last week's blog post to find out what you're missing. Why Express? Express provides all of...
Here at Shockoe, we are happiest when working with JavaScript. There are plenty of projects that call for other languages, like Objective-C, Java, or PHP, but the goal is to work with JavaScript whenever possible. For a decade I thought of JavaScript as this...
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