Session Management In Your Express.js Web Application

I’ve still been doing a lot of fiddling with Express web framework for Node.js. I recently ran into an issue with saving data to sessions because much of the documentation online is outdated and no longer functional. However, I did get it working, and am going to discuss it in this guide.

If you’re not familiar with Express, you may want to take a moment and read my other article regarding installation.

Use Native Device Dialogs In Ionic Framework Mobile Apps

So you’ve been playing around with Ionic Framework for a while now and have decided that maybe $ionicPopup dialogs are not meeting your needs because they don’t look native enough. As we’ve come to expect, Apache Cordova has a plugin for us to correct this, giving us native device popup dialogs in our hybrid application.

This guide will show you how to use the Apache Cordova Dialogs plugin in your Ionic Framework Android and iOS mobile application.

Find All Tables In An Oracle Database By Column Name

I work with very large Oracle enterprise databases all the time. Consistently, I find myself trying to sift through schemas in the database to find relationships between tables. When tables aren’t named appropriately and you have a lot of them, this can be a long and painful process if you do it manually.

Lucky for us, there is a convenient way to search for the tables you’re looking for based on column information.

Deploy Ionic Framework App With Pre-Filled SQLite DB

Recently I did an article regarding SQLite as an alternative to local storage in an Ionic Framework application. The article was a guide for using the Apache Cordova SQLite plugin for data management. Since writing that post, a few of my readers asked me how to ship an application with a pre-populated SQLite database.

A scenario where this might be useful is if you created a lookup directory for all the employees at your company. Let’s say you have 10,000 employees, so populating the data via a web request is probably going to take a long time. You could ship each version of your app with the most recent lookup directory, and use an API to update it. Since you’re only doing small changes after the initial, it is more effective than trying to download everyone.

This task is not difficult, but it could get a little confusing. Now I’m not going to show how to do the example scenario I mentioned, but the following should put you on the right path for working with pre-populated SQLite databases.

Making Tinder-Style Swipe Cards With Ionic Framework

The Tinder App recently got a lot of attention, especially the swipe cards are suddenly appearing everywhere. Ionic is already creating a solution for everyone to easily create these kind of cards with HTML5 and Javascript. Therefore, in this tutorial I will show you how to add Tinder-style swipe cards in your Ionic app with the help of a custom ion.

Access The Native Device Clipboard In Ionic Framework

There are often times where you would need to copy information from your mobile application to your devices native clipboard. Maybe you are making an address book application and you want to copy a phone number to the clipboard when you click on a contact. Doing this with native code can become a challenge.

Lucky for us, we are using Apache Cordova, and there is a plugin by Verso Solutions called CordovaClipboard. Using this in combination with the AngularJS extension set, ngCordova, can give us clipboard functionality with as little as four lines of code.

The following will explain how to make a simple Ionic Framework mobile application that uses the CordovaClipboard plugin with ngCordova.

Run A Node.js Application On A LAMP Stack Server

If you’ve been keeping up with some of my previous posts, you’ll know that I’ve been making an effort to move away from PHP ZendFramework (or PHP in general) to Node.js. Up until mid December 2014, my personal profile website www.nraboy.com has been using PHP ZendFramework 2, and for whatever reason it would crash my Apache instance constantly.

Since mid December 2014, I’ve made the switch to Express.js framework on top of Node.js. I did a previous post on the topic of Express.js and why I like it, but it is beyond the point for this particular article.

I have a few sites still running PHP and I didn’t want to pay for a new server strictly for Node.js applications. Instead I chose to run LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) side-by-side with Node.js on the same server. The following explains how I did this.