As I promised to continue the Angular/Ionic project series, as a developer perspective mock server is the most important to progress the development. We should not depend on the production or development API for front-end development. This post is about creating a simple Node Express server with mock JSON object files. You can import the project to any of the front-end applications like Angular, React, Ionic and VueJS projects.

PDF documents are a very common form of hypermedia documents. Whether it’s books, bills, or invoices we consume PDF documents on a daily basis. In this article, we are going to learn how to generate PDF documents using Node.js and Worker queue called Kue. PDF generation is used in products such as E-commerce based applications, airline tickets, hotel booking, etc. We can use the same principle which I am going to show you below and apply it to implement the feature.

These days, there are no projects that do not have a REST API for creating professional web services. REST ( Representational State Transfer) consists set of guidelines to build a web service, which can be used to modify or view specific information on the web without performing any server side operations. Using RESTful APIs saves huge amount of time. Twitter, Facebook, Google and thousands of companies use REST APIs. This is because REST is the most efficient and widespread standard in the creation of APIs for Internet services.

I already have discussed about React JS in my previous posts. Today, lets see advanced way of using React JS, webpack and ES6 with Node.js to build and run your application. Let’s see what webpack and ES6 does. ES6 (ECMAScript6) is the latest version of javascript that has number of new features to write your javascript code easily. Webpack is mainly designed for larger applications to build the application. The main idea behind webpack/ES6 is code splitting. It allows you to write Javascript as a modularized code, so that you can re-use and share the code to maintain your project over-time.

Earlier in realtime, any request for data from the server makes the app slow, unscalable and cumbersome to maintain. RethinkDB mainly focus on this drawback and makes building realtime apps easier. RethinkDB is the first open-source, scalable JSON database built for realtime web. The developer can tell RethinkDB to continuously push updated query results to application in realtime; this reduces the server load and also the time and effort necessary to build scalable realtime apps. Here there is complete steps for installing RethinkDB. This post also explains you to create a reat-time web application using RethinkDB and Node.js