Mongoose is an ODM(object document mapper) library which allows our Nodejs (which speaks the language of JavaScript objects) apps to interact with mongoDB database which speaks the language of documents, collections and databases. The main objective of mongoose is to shorten the validation code, the writing of business logic boilerplate…

Version control Remember the “checkpoints” we used to have in our games so that the progress made by us before a certain checkpoint is saved and we may continue our game from any of the saved checkpoints after the game is over? In coding, we often have to make certain…

What is an API? API stands for application programming interface. In layman language, it is a set of code which is written by someone ( be it a person, Google or Facebook etc.) which we can use by their permission so that we don’t need to write the same code again. For example, if…

Express is a node framework. It is a collection of codes that someone wrote and which adds extra features to our code. It prevents us from writing repetitive codes. Getting started Firstly, initialise npm in your js file(npm init). Then type npm install express to install express. Doing so…

Node.js is one of the platforms for executing JavaScript code at the server end. I chose it for Backend because it uses JavaScript which I have already learned earlier. Twitter, Uber, ebay etc. use Node.js for backend. I will be using Node on Hyper Terminal (a command line interface). In…

Hyper is a command line interface which I will use to interact with node.js. In this blog, i will be showing some of the most common commands that i came across while learning node.js. Note: To execute commands, you must be present in the same directory in which you have…

To start VS Code from Hyper terminal, go to the directory in which VS Code exists and type: start code