Logging in your Spring-boot application with LogBook

Logging requests and responses is easy but sometimes it turns into a complicated mess because we need to change and figure out where things are being printed or which files are doing it. So a great solution for that is Logbook, because it allows you to modify Beans with your own filters and intercept the requests and responses in one single place. Add dependencies to the Pom.xml file: <!-- LogBook dependency --> <dependency> <groupId>org. Continue reading

Forms made easy with formspree

Making forms is a very straightforward process, small changes here and there, style, fields validations, backend services and so on but in our case we would talk about the extra step of processing the forms and the delivery of the messages. When we are trying to create a form for our website we have to also develop a backend service to help us send those messages to a specific email address, it’s not difficult to achieve but there are a couple of things to do that kind of take a lot of time, for example: Selecting a backend framework like ExpressJS, Spring boot, Restify, etc. Continue reading

Imports (part 3)

When it comes to developing a web application with Node.js Imports play a very important role in the creation of our application. They help us to structure and restructure the application any way that we want. But also gave us the ability to use modules written by other people and integrate them into our application. In Fact you already did create one and use it. In our Part 2 lesson when we created environment variables. Continue reading

Express file structure (part 2)

Welcome back to part two of our Express tutorial, in this part we are going to talk about express file structure and what exactly I mean by file structure. Also we will go over how to create a configuration file and use it to change to different environments of development. Express like many other NodeJS backend frameworks like restify, fastify, etc. Don’t really come with a file structure that we have to follow, you can structure your backend application any way you like but for the purpose of this journey we will use a MVC design pattern. Continue reading

Favicon, adding identity to your web application

Favicon is not very noticeable at first but if you are like me, it will stand out when you have a lot of tabs open in your browser. Frameworks like Angular come with their brand icon by default already but what about if we want to change it with our own icon. Well look not further we will go into the details on how to do it step by step: Continue reading

Express for beginners (part 1)

Welcome to the first part of our journey, this is going to be a small series with multiple posts to help you dive right into Express framework and Node.js. Don’t worry if you don’t have any previous experience with Express or Node.js. This tutorial is designed with that in mind and will try to be as clear as possible. We will cover the backend logic only in this series and in the future we may also create another small tutorial on how to integrate a view engine like Pug, Ejs, etc. Continue reading