We’ve mentioned in the introductory tutorial and the stack preparation that your Futureflix implementation uses MongoDB to store data. You won’t interact with MongoDB using the Node.js driver. Instead, you’ll use Mongoose to model your application and save, update or delete objects within the datastore. This …

Validating user input is crucial to your application and you should never trust the incoming request data. Please make sure you’re validating the provided user data before sending it to your database. You never know when a user tries to DROP TABLE users. Within the related tutorials, you can …

Environment Variables and Storing Secrets You’re jumping right into the first practical tutorial! Even though the title sounds very much like non-stop theory, you’ll just walk through basics on how to keep secrets (sensitive data) out of your project and repository. Afterwards, it’s time to put your …

While running a website you’ll probably iterate on the design and functionality. Adding new pages is a good start to take a different path from your layout and apply new design ideas. At Future Studio, we’ve applied a different design to the galaxy map, compared to other pages. …

Yehaa! Great to see you starting this learning path 😍 In this tutorial, you’ll get a grasp on the project structure, how to extend it and where to put files. Your tasks are the local setup based on the Futureflix starter kit that can be cloned using git or downloaded …

Seeing you here means you’re interested in starting the Futureflix server learning path, where you’ll build a complete app by yourself. This learning path is practical and you’ll implement all the features that you see in other platforms. This way you’ll learn the basics on implementations …

Developing your web app isn’t only about the happy path. You need to take care of proper error handling and that applies to more than just showing creative error messages for bad user inputs on forms. Update — February 28th 2018 The code samples of this tutorial are up to …