Working with dates and times in JavaScript can be cumbersome. The Date class provides methods to interact with dates and times. Usually, you need to put more effort into calculating the value that you’re interested in. {{outline}} In various situations, it’s favorable to calculate the seconds since epoch …

The first tutorial on JWT logout shows you a basic logout when using JSON web token (JWT). The downside of this logout is that users can authenticate requests for the remaining JWT lifetime. Only the refresh token is revoked. In contrast to the first tutorial, you’ll now implement a …

When working on a new feature or app idea, storing data on the file system can be a good solution. You can skip the database setup and save JSON to a file instead. {{outline}} Write JSON to File JavaScript comes with the JSON class that lets you serialize an object …

Authenticating users in web applications or APIs has different approaches. Invalidating a user’s server-side session or an authentication-related cookie is in your full control. With JSON web tokens (JWTs), you need to extend your platform with a custom logout handling ensuring to invalidate an active JWT. Because there’s …

Using streams in Node.js is a powerful mechanism to process data. Especially when working with large data sets where you might want to filter chunks that don’t match a given criteria. {{outline}} Example: Loading Lines From File to Database Imagine the following example: you want to load a …

JSON Web Token (JWT) authentication comes with a trade-off: the created token lives on client side. You don’t need to store a token in your server-side database to make JWT authentication work in your application. This is —simultaneously— the largest benefit of JWT: your server can trust a verified …

Node.js benefits from new language features in JavaScript. The introduction of classes in JavaScript is a great step towards better extensibility. You provide functionality in a base class, let other classes extend this base class, and use the given methods. But how to extend multiple classes in Node.js? …

JSON web tokens (JWT) are a convenient way to authenticate users on your platform. The simplest version of handling JWT authentication looks like this: creating a token by signing it with a secret key that is only known to your application. Once created, you send off the compact form of …