Blog Posts

Writing and parsing XML files with Node.js might not be one of the first things that strike your mind. On the contrary, the Fast XML parser has millions of downloads per week on NPM. In this post, you will learn how to validate and parse XML with Node.js. You will also learn to generate an XML file from JavaScript objects. Let's get started!

Axios is one of the most popular JavaScript libraries to do HTTP requests. It is an HTTP client available for both the browser and Node.js. Setting Axios timeout properly makes your application perform efficiently even when the called API/URL is not responding in a timely manner. In this post, you will learn about Axios, its configs, and how to set Axios timeout properly to not hamper your application’s performance. Let’s get going.

React is the most popular frontend framework (ok a library) in terms of usage for the past 6 years. Being able to search content is a very useful feature for all websites and React apps are no exception. In this post, you will learn how to add a React search bar to an existing React app step-by-step. Let’s get going!

Imagine your console.log being able to show multiple colors. Not only would it be colorful but it will also be helpful. This is where the NPM chalk module comes in very handy. With the NPM chalk module, you can sprinkle multiple colors to your boring black-and-white console output and format the text.

It will add some life to your console by highlighting important text and making the text more readable. In this post, you will learn how to install and use the NPM chalk module to colorize your console output. Let’s get started!

Two or more NPM commands can be run simultaneously with the NPM concurrently package. A simple use case for this can be when you want to run the server and the client in parallel for a JavaScript project. In this post, you will learn how to use the concurrently NPM package for running two or more NPM commands simultaneously, let's get going!