DevMigration

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Forms made easy with formspree

2020-09-27 Articles Renso Diaz
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

Express file structure (part 2)

2020-08-09 Articles Renso Diaz
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