Not long ago, I joined a new small Startup company, and just like any fresh start, there’s a mountain of new things to learn and understand, tools, libraries, new languages, and concepts. As I was adapting to the new environment, I noticed that two of my teammates were occasionally playing…

If you followed my last part, you should have by now a web application using express js with a simple user route. We implemented the following routes: GET /users — Get all users (collection resource) GET /users/{id} — Get one user (singleton resource) In this article, I will cover Create…

What makes API a RESTful API? Before we start to write our API, it is essential to understand first what we need to do so our API will be REST complaint. I won’t go in-depth over all of REST principles, and I’ll focus on what’s necessary for our primary example. REST stands for REpresentation State Transfer…

Recently I became more and more interested in password security. I came across a big data set containing a massive amount of breached passwords from known websites. It gave me an idea for a website that will let you explore some frequently used passwords and test your password’s strength, so…

You are a software engineer/developer/programmer, and you applied for a position. You got the call, and they want you to do a take-home assignment that will showcase your skills and the way you tackle problems. If you want your assignment to stand out from all the other candidates, you got…

Create a functional and reusable template that will save you time. Recently I had a home assignment as a part of a job interview, and I was asked to create a REST API. I wanted to build a solid REST API with best practices and a well-organized structure using sequlize…