In this article I’m going to show how you can generate a Puppeteer PDF document from a heavily styled React web page using Node.js, headless Chrome & Docker. Background: A few months ago one of the clients of RisingStack asked us to develop a feature where the user would be able to request a React …
Have you ever run into a problem in production/staging, when you just wanted to change the API URL in your React app in a quick and easy way? Usually, to change the API URL you need to rebuild your application and redeploy it. If it’s in a Docker container, you need to rebuild the whole …
In this article, I’m going to show how you can quickly generate a static site with Hugo and Netlify in an easy way. What are static site generators, and why do you need one? Simply put, a static site generator takes your content, applies it to a template, and generates an HTML based static site. …
In this post, we cover what tools and techniques you have at your disposal when handling Node.js asynchronous operations: async.js, promises, and async functions. After reading this article, you’ll know how to use the latest async tools at your disposal provided by Node.js! Node.js at Scale is a collection of articles focusing on the needs …
In this article, you will learn how you can simplify your callback or Promise based Node.js application with async functions (async/await). Whether you’ve looked at async/await and promises in javascript before, but haven’t quite mastered them yet, or just need a refresher, this article aims to help you. A note from the authors: We re-released …
