Feb 12 · 10 min read · Why Traditional Express Error Handling Fails Modern Applications Express.js error handling was built around synchronous middleware and callbacks. The traditional pattern of passing errors to next(err) works for synchronous code, but async/await opera...
Join discussionFeb 4 · 7 min read · Week three of building SimPesa marked a critical milestone: creating the ingestion engine, the system that accepts STK Push requests and ensures they're processed reliably. This wasn't about building something that "works most of the time." In fintec...
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Dec 21, 2025 · 4 min read · It was one of those late nights when everything feels quiet — except your mind. I had already built multiple projects, but something felt missing. Most of my apps were static in interaction: click → response → reload. They were obviously useful but n...
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Oct 17, 2025 · 2 min read · Introduction Welcome to my journey through the HNG Internship! In this article, I'll walk you through how I built a dynamic RESTful API that integrates with an external API, handles errors gracefully, and returns real-time data. Whether you're a begi...
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Sep 29, 2025 · 10 min read · Morgan is an Express middleware library that examines HTTP requests and logs details of the request to an output. It is one of the most popular Express middleware libraries with over 8,000 GitHub stars and more than 9,000 npm libraries dependent on i...
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Sep 28, 2025 · 9 min read · Mastering Node.js Express: A Complete Guide to Modern Web Development Express.js has become the de facto standard for building web applications and APIs with Node.js. Whether you're just starting your backend journey or looking to level up your Expre...
Join discussionSep 28, 2025 · 2 min read · Getting Started with Express.js Express.js is the most popular Node.js web framework, and for good reason. It's minimal, flexible, and perfect for building web applications and APIs. What is Express.js? Express.js is a fast, unopinionated, minimalist...
Join discussionSep 7, 2025 · 4 min read · 1. Introduction Until now, we have been sending plain text or JSON from our Node.js backend.But in real websites, we also need to serve HTML pages, CSS stylesheets, images, JavaScript files, and other assets. These files are called static files becau...
Join discussionSep 7, 2025 · 4 min read · 1. Introduction So far, we’ve learned how to handle GET requests where the data comes from query params or route params.But what if we want to send data from a form or frontend to the server in a secure way?That’s where POST requests come in. When yo...
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