An RSS feed is a convenient way to allow access to syndicated content in a standardized format that is easily shareable and discoverable. Recently I’ve been using feedly to stay up to date with a variety of web development blogs. This got me interested in how to add an rss…

If you’re building a blog with the Jamstack your content might be stored in a git repository. This can help to reduce overhead, since a database is no longer required, but presents other interesting challenges like displaying post metadata. This may include the date the post was created or the…

Jamstack blogs, or otherwise static sites that are built with prerendered markup can load quickly and cost less to run, however one potential drawback of a serverless approach for a blog can be the lack of a content management system. Without using a database or a headless content management system…

To mitigate Cross-site request forgery attacks, websites that submit forms can include a nonce, to make sure that the request is being sent from the origin that is expected. This way, a post request containing the nonce, or public token, can be verified with a secret, and stored on the…

Let’s say you are building a site with the Jamstack and you want to use node.js to generate the rss feed for your site. In doing so you realize that your post content contains relative links when checking with the validator provided by the W3C Feed validation service, and it…

Running too many asynchronous processes simultaneously with Node.js can cause issues that will lead to the process crashing. An example of this is when reading files inside of an asynchronous callback function that is being executed using the map() method on an array. To prevent a scenario where the node.js…

Before developing with Azure Serverless Functions and Azure Table storage locally, there are some tools required to emulate Azure Storage and provide a run-time environment for the Node.js serverless functions. Please make sure the prerequisites are set up before running the example code that follows. Setup Azure Storage Emulator In order to save on…

As of Node.js version 13.2.0 ECMAScript modules are now supported by default without adding an experimental flag. Although, using ES Modules without making the required configuration changes will result in the error “SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module”. This is because Node.js, by default, is expecting the CommonJS…

The uuid, or universally unique identifier, npm package is a secure way to generate cryptographically strong unique identifiers with Node.js that doesn’t require a large amount of code. The uuid npm package has zero dependencies, and over thirty thousand packages depend on it, making it a safe choice when an…