nodeJS and Web APIs

JSON Web Token (JWT) is a compact URL-safe means of representing claims to be transferred between two parties. The claims in a JWT are encoded as a JSON object that is digitally signed using JSON Web Signature (JWS).

Disclaimer There is nothing new in this post. I'm just bringing this up now because a lot of people seem to not know the facts. It also has nothing to do with Windows Phone specifically, but rather pretty much every platform. The point of this post is not to spread FUD, but to remind people to not take security for granted. OAuth For those that don't know what OAuth is, it is an open...

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When implementing the Good Enough Recommendations (GER) engine, a core requirement was to let users insert large amounts of data quickly in order to bootstrap the recommendations engine. Additionally, this bootstrapping should be available over HTTP, as this will become the primary channel for interaction with GER.

PostGres (which GER uses) has the COPY command that is "optimised for loading large numbers of rows" in various formats, and npm has the package pg-copy-streams that pass Node.js streams to COPY. This would work well with the Hapi.js web application framework which can turn an uploaded file into a Node.js stream without having to hold the entire file in memory or create a temporary file on disk.

In this post I will describe how to upload a file and directly insert its data into PostGres using Node.js streams with Hapi.js and pg-copy-streams.

Deploying Node applications should be a straightforward task.For some reasons, you can read here and there that additional dependencies need to be installed globally.\nWhich is generally very rarely needed.

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How do you measure the growth in adoption of JavaScript libraries in enterprise software and cloud development? Rod Boothy at npmjs looks at three key metrics.