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Access token regeneration for Axios requests
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I've developed an application which use axios to communicate with the PayPal API. PayPal has a NodeJS SDK, but unfortunately this doesn't support the ...
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Searching all new Reddit comments for comments matching regular expressions and notify of matches
This program constantly sends an https request to Reddit's API for new comments.
Using a PostgreSQL Database containing Regular Expressions, find comments of interest and notify about them using faye....
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Express Rest API Async and Scaling
I am currently learning how to create nodejs express rest api using async making it fully scaleable and secure.
My goal is to ensure maximum functionality and speed, currently I am using MVC ...
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Splitting environments: prod and dev modes
I've decided on splitting my environments keeping them in .js files in an environment folder and keep all the sensitive information in .env file (use a third-party module 'DOTENV').
That's what I've ...
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nodejs 401 request retry mechanism
I'm working on a project in which I have a backend in nodejs and from there I need to call external APIs, those APIs require authentication token which is valid for 15 minutes. So if response status ...
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Nodejs Interview - API calls and exchange rate
I did an initial technical phone screening with this company which went ok, they then sent me a programming exercise to complete and send back to them.
The goal of the exercise:
-take input as a ...
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Filter by multiple options - also only if not empty [closed]
Here's how my json looks like. I'm trying to write a function which filters based on participantCriteria.criteriaType & participantCriteria._id
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Avoid existSync function on Node.js - Express API controller
I have many json files that I want to serve through an API. The json files look something like this:
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Node.js/Express middleware to relay requests to various APIs
I am creating a nodejs middleware server that will handle api transactions from a frontend and relay them to various api's (internal and external). The primary goal is to hide api keys from the ...
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Translating words from one language to another
My program translates words from one language to another using a language Pivot and systran.io API.
I used promises, callbacks and external API for the first time but I'm not sure that's the best way ...
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Simple static JSON - get only - API
This API's aim is to return color-names for a bunch of hex colors.
Its the first time I am writing an API. And while I write lots of frontend code I rarely touched node.
I am interested in a general ...
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Beginner Node.js app using Heroku w/ Mailchimp API
I'd like some feedback on the readability and style of the following code. It's a simple Node.js app that uses the Mailchimp API to add emails to a list. The client side handles SVGs, sign-up ...
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API Implementation and Architecture
I recently put together an Express/Node API that consumes and transforms an additional third party API.
And while everything is working great, I feel there may be ways to improve the architecture ...
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Fetching and shortening URLs with API calls using Promises
I have a node module that accesses the News API to fetch news articles and runs each article's URL through Google's URL shortener. It also has a caching mechanism implemented. This was previously ...
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A UNIX timestamp microservice
I have made a small timestamp microservice that converts from UNIX time to a natural language date, and vice versa. Please let me know of anything I could do better.
Here is a demo. Here is the time....
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