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Tutorials

How to Properly Logout using PassportJs, Express-Session, on a Single Page App

Proper logout using PassportJs & Express-Session for single page web application, clearing both the client cookie and database session.

  • Andrew Akagawa
    Andrew Akagawa
2 min read
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Going Deep on Mongoose Deep Population, and How To Populate Across Multiple Levels

If you've made the switch from SQL to NoSQL, you've probably started to dabble into Mongoose population as a means to make up for the lack of table joins.  This, unfortunately, is one

  • Andrew Akagawa
    Andrew Akagawa
3 min read
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Saving a Dynamic Web Page as PDF with Puppeteer

This article shares a brief tutorial for how to save web page as PDF with NodeJs.  We will be using the Puppeteer [https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer] headless chrome browser to pull the

  • Andrew Akagawa
    Andrew Akagawa
6 min read
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Moving All of Your Nodejs Apps to a Single DigitalOcean Droplet with Cloudflare

Yes, this is possible.  DigitalOcean is a great and cost effective way to upgrade from hobby services like Heroku.  However, be aware that a good amount of DevOps work involved to do this.

  • Andrew Akagawa
    Andrew Akagawa
6 min read
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