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Articles tagged expressjs

A Quick Guide to Angular and GraphQL

A Quick Guide to Angular and GraphQL

Note: In May 2025, the Okta Integrator Free Plan replaced Okta Developer Edition Accounts, and the Okta CLI was deprecated. We preserved this post for reference, but the instructions no longer work exactly as written. Replace the Okta CLI commands by manually configuring Okta following the instructions in our Developer Documentation. Over the past five years, GraphQL has established itself as the most popular alternative to REST APIs. GraphQL has several advantages over traditional REST-based...

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Build a Simple CRUD Application with Node and MySQL

Build a Simple CRUD Application with Node and MySQL

Note: In May 2025, the Okta Integrator Free Plan replaced Okta Developer Edition Accounts, and the Okta CLI was deprecated. We preserved this post for reference, but the instructions no longer work exactly as written. Replace the Okta CLI commands by manually configuring Okta following the instructions in our Developer Documentation. NodeJS + Express is a popular technology stack for building APIs and backend services. Often times a backend database is required. There are several...

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Build a Simple Web App with Express, Angular, and GraphQL

Build a Simple Web App with Express, Angular, and GraphQL

Note: In May 2025, the Okta Integrator Free Plan replaced Okta Developer Edition Accounts, and the Okta CLI was deprecated. We preserved this post for reference, but the instructions no longer work exactly as written. Replace the Okta CLI commands by manually configuring Okta following the instructions in our Developer Documentation. During the past 10 years or so, the concept of REST APIs for web services has become the bread and butter for most web...

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Build and Understand Express Middleware through Examples

If you’ve done any significant Node development in the past seven or eight years, you’ve probably used Express to build a web server at some point. While you can create a server in Node without using a library, it doesn’t give you a lot out of the box and can be quite cumbersome to add functionality. Express is a minimalist, “unopinionated” server library and has become the de facto standard for building web apps in...

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Use OpenID Connect to Build a Simple Node.js Website

Use OpenID Connect to Build a Simple Node.js Website

Note: In May 2025, the Okta Integrator Free Plan replaced Okta Developer Edition Accounts, and the Okta CLI was deprecated. We preserved this post for reference, but the instructions no longer work exactly as written. Replace the Okta CLI commands by manually configuring Okta following the instructions in our Developer Documentation. If you’ve ever spent time trying to figure out the best way to handle user authentication for your Node app and been confused: you’re...

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