. Happend. I made a mistake and I am straightening it up publicly. If you were following either my code or my posts carefully, you probably noticed I referred to environmental values a lot. From everywhere. That isn’t a good practice, in fact, it’s terrible, to follow that pattern. From…

That was quite a task, to get this going. I even had a serious problem with getting git commits separated from each other, so I ended up committing it all together. Introduction As I mentioned earlier, I was arguing with myself on using either WebSockets which I am familiar with, or…

Every webapp needs a database, right? I believe, there isn’t a single person, that’d try to argue over this statement. But what database, and how to structure — that is where the war begins. For this project, I use MongoDB with mongoose on the top of it. Mongo is a…

A week ago I’ve spoken about basics of JWT; what are they, why they’re great alternative for cookies, and also, I briefly described different ways of authentication with their usage, as well as ways of matching identity, based on provided token. Today I’d like to show you, one method on…

It took me waay longer than I expected, to start with the project. I’ll touch the surface of the reasons in another post, but what I’d like to simply report you the progress I’m at with the Byrd. In my recent post, of #GetNoticed series, I said I’m gonna be…

Some of you may not be familiar with concept of tokens, so I’ll try to quickly explain those: Tokens overall is an abstract concept, of representing another object. For instance, you won the lottery, and you need to show the proof you actually are the lucky winner (congrats if you…

Honestly, how often do you hear that question? Because I do hear it a lot, and it drives me nuts. What’s so important in tools you use? Why is your new, shiny shovel, made out of carbonated steel better, from my old, rusty one? It does it’s job, right? Why…

Okey, first of I shall say hi. That’s my first post on this platform, and I thought — why would I make a post saying I’m going to be posting, since I can post it at my first post… Aight, I think you got me now. This makes no sense…