Array.map() is a synchronous operation and runs a function on each element in the array resulting in a new array with the updated items. There are situations where you want to run asynchronous functions within map, e.g. updating a list of models and push the changed information back …

You’ve limited time to spend on watching movies and TV shows. You can’t watch everything at once. A watchlist is a space to save movies and shows for later. Once you finished the current show (or movie), pick the next one from your watchlist. If you’re like …

We as Node.js developers are constantly feeling the hype around the next shiny new library. It seems every other day there’s a new one picking up steam. Well, our mind tells us to look at it and integrate into projects. Ignore all the hype for a second and …

Pagination is an essential part of web applications to split large data sets into chunks. Pagination is like the penguins in the Madagascar movie: a secret star. You couldn’t live with it while having a minor role in the play. With growing data sets in your Futureflix app, you …

Testing your hapi applications might require expected values and responses that match a set of data. The code library from hapi’s ecosystem is an assertions library based on chai. Code exposes an expressive and readable language-style interface. You’ll get a grasp on features and the usage in the …

The Futureflix Starter Kit serves two different types of content: movies and TV shows. Each movie separates from all others, even though it’s a pre- or sequel. TV shows are different in a way that they consist of seasons and each season has an amount of episodes. Mongoose comes …

NPM as a package manager provides a lot capabilities outside the actual dependency management. You can leverage a built-in functionality to run scripts which enables the use case of NPM as a build tool. Further, you can define a script within your package.json file that executes various tasks before …