The ArgumentsHost class in NestJS is a special class that lets you access the arguments (parameters) of a route handler method. This includes the request, response and other contextual information. Over my time in developing NestJS services, the ArgumentsHost class has come in handy multiple times to improve the exception Read more…
NestJS provides a cool feature where we can create multiple routes with the same NestJS Controller. What’s the use of such a feature? Let’s say you want to change the route name for a particular entity from A to B. However, you also want to keep A endpoint working to Read more…
When you are developing a web application, it’s important to understand what’s going on behind the scenes. Logging plays a critical role in providing insights into your web server’s activities and help you identify issues, monitor performance and ensure that the application runs well. In this post, I will explain Read more…
In a typical web application, there are bound to be multiple routes that you want to expose to the users. In this post, I will explain how you can handle routing in a Go web server. Also, I will show how you can handle URL parameters in a Go web Read more…
Web servers are what makes the online world work and in this tutorial, you’ll dive headfirst into creating your own Go HTTP web server in a step-by-step manner. Go is an extremely versatile programming language. You can do system programming in Go or even create highly interactive web applications. Due Read more…
Go or Golang is truly a next-gen programming language. It has been created by some of the best minds in the world of computing. The great part about Go is that it’s good for beginners as well as experienced programmers. Over the years, many tech companies (including Google) have adopted Read more…
A framework or programming is only as good as its fundamentals. Once you become proficient in the fundamentals, it becomes easy to master the entire framework. NestJS is no exception. Without a solid understanding of the key concepts and principles that underpin the framework, it’s easy to get lost in Read more…
When you join a new organization, you usually face issues accessing the internet. Upon asking around, someone would provide you the proxy settings using which your workstation is able to go through the firewall and access the internet. These proxy settings essentially belong to the forward proxy server. You can Read more…
When you run a Node.js program, it creates a process. Process is the representation of a program that consumes memory. This memory is exclusively available for the process. Apart from memory, a process also receives computing time from the processor. A process can be divided into threads. Think of a Read more…
A proxy is something that acts on behalf of something else. Your best friend giving your attendance in the boring lecture you bunked during college is a real-life example of proxying. When it comes to API development, a proxy is an interface between the client and the API server. The Read more…