Once your droplet is created and you've ssh'd in, it's time to set some things up.. I start off by installing nvm. You can find the command for the install script here. At the time of writing, I used curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.8/install.sh | bash I needed to exit my terminal, and then ssh back in. [...]
I decided to switch from Apache to Nginx. I have a couple of WordPress sites on a DigitalOcean droplet, so I needed to reconfigure them to be used with Nginx. I basically followed this guide which was great for most of it, but I was still not getting the sites loading properly (404 errors, forbidden). [...]
If you're creating an app where you need to access Google services from a server, you'll need to store the refresh token from the Google Oauth process. The access tokens periodically expire, so you need the refresh token to manually get a new access token when you need it. So if you're using the Passport [...]
If you have a front-end that needs to accept a CSV file, upload it to a server using jQuery, and then have that Node.js server process that CSV file, then this a way to do it. First up, the HTML https://gist.github.com/magician11/94e7e900b9b390fb4a53b1d32cc38476#file-index-html and then the jQuery that takes the selected CSV file, and uploads it to [...]
I had an issue where I needed to scrape some data from a dynamically generated webpage. Open this page in a browser and you'll see what I mean. I tried a lot of options, and the solution that ended up working for me was to use Headless Chrome. This basically allows you [...]
So I recently had a job where we needed to remove the PayPal payment gateway in the Shopify checkout for particular products. So a simple way for the client to manage this, is for them to tag those products they don't want to be purchasable by PayPal, and then for us to write a script that [...]
I had a project where I needed to setup a server that communicated over the SOAP protocol. I use Node.js for my backend server, so I began looking for libraries to use to work with. I settled on strong-soap, but began to have issues with doing simple changes to the XML like editing the prefix [...]
For a recent Shopify job, I had to update a variety of prices by converting them to a different currency. I found this great API from Fixr.io. It's super fast to use (response times in less than 7ms), and responses themselves are simple JSON objects. The exchange rates are updated almost every day from the [...]
I hadn't given too much thought to encrypting the traffic to my applications, until developing for 3rd party services like Facebook Messenger or using service workers require your server to use https. For a full stack JavaScript application we need to setup encrypt on both the front-end and the back-end. Front-End Encryption I'm serving my files (fonts, [...]
If you have a single page app that has no routes, getting visitors tracked with Google Analytics is pretty straight forward using the React Google Analytics Module. First create your tracking ID from Google Analytics by going to https://analytics.google.com/ A howto guide is available here. Then in the parent component of your React.js app Install the [...]