Web frameworks in Node.js provide a request object containing information from the requesting instance. The request object typically includes the IP address of the requesting client. If you want to geo-locate the requesting user, the IP address is helpful. This tutorial shows you how to retrieve the client IP …

The “unsupported media type“ error occurred while uploading a file to a hapi server. The file is an Excel sheet and at first, it seemed like the content type was the issue. But the problem was the multipart upload which comes with a straightforward fix! {{outline}} Fixing “Unsupported Media Type” …

Using git as your version control system comes with different ways to structure your repository. A popular approach using git successfully in your project is the git flow branching model from Vincent Driessen. When running into the error git: 'flow' is not a git command., you don’t have git …

JavaScript comes with a globally available String class. It provides dozens of useful methods for string transformations. For example, you may lowercase or uppercase a given string, replace parts of the string value, or check whether a string value includes a given term. This tutorial shows you how to remove …

Serializing JavaScript objects and other data structures as JSON is useful for data exchange between a server and a client. The JSON data exchange between client and server doesn’t require a JavaScript stack on both ends. JSON support is typically available in most programming languages. {{outline}} Creating a Custom …

As a software developer, you’re most likely using SSH keys. Doing system administration or pushing commits to your source control like GitHub or GitLab is considered to be a best practice doing it over SSH with public key authentication instead of passwords. And because you’re doing both in …

You can trigger GitHub Actions to run on different events. Typically, you want to run an action when pushing to a repository. You may also run an action on pull requests. When building packages for frameworks or libraries, you may want to run your code on a defined schedule. This …

Most of the Node.js examples for GitHub Actions use version numbers like 12.x. This value describes the latest Node.js v12 release, independently from the minor or patch version. The Node.js GitHub Action supports exact version numbers beside the wildcard match. This is helpful when you want …