In this article I will describe how to upload files using Lien and Formidable, after creating a NodeJS HTTP server.
Lien is a tiny high-level framework for creating HTTP servers, being one of the libraries which power Bloggify.
Formidable is a NodeJS module for parsing form data and file uploads. We will use it to create a file upload interface in a Lien server.
First of all, create the directory structure:
I released the initial version of Bloggify social plugin, adding the functionality to share the articles on social networks.
Check out the plugin source. The CSS and HTML are generated by this social builder which is really cool!
To find more about Bloggify, check out the Bloggify website.
Many people use RSS readers to get updates from the sites subscribed.
I built a Bloggify plugin that brings the RSS feed page on my blog which runs Bloggify.
The RSS feed page is http://ionicabizau.net/api/rss. So you can add it to your RSS reader sources to be notified when a new article is posted here.
I used the QuiteRSS application for testing the things out.
It's a snowy weather here… And I had a lot of fun by building a 3D octocat of snow: actually an OctoSnowCat. Yeps, here is the result:
The GitHubbers will understand. If you didn't get it, watch the following video with the 3D octocat figurine:
…and buy it, if you like it and have enough money.
Building a website is easy: just some HTML styled with CSS and with some JavaScript handlers for the user interaction. But what about desktop applications? I've never liked to build desktop applications because they generally depend on the platform they run.
That's why I decided to build BAT – A tiny tool for building native desktop applications using WEB technologies.
Currently the available binaries are for Linux and Mac OS X only. To install the latest BAT version, run the following commands:
I'm happy to announce IsRespo 1.0.0 the newest release of IsRespo – a tool for visualizing how websites are loaded on different devices (big displays, laptops, tables, phones etc).
The tool is available online, but it can be downloaded via git or npm, also:
# git
$ git clone [email protected]:IonicaBizau/IsRespo.git
I've released a new version of the image-to-ascii NodeJS package which is used for converting images into ASCII art.
It's super easy to use. Let's take a look.
You have to install GraphicsMagick before using this package:
$ sudo apt-get install graphicsmagick # Ubuntu
Using GitHub in a browser like Chrome, Firefox etc. is fine, but not always comfortable. When you always stay in a Terminal window, pressing alt + tab becomes annoying. This problem can be solved using a text browser (e.g. Elinks). However, using a text browser for browsing GitHub is not the most comfortable way to access GitHub resources.
That's why I created CLI GitHub: a fancy GitHub client for the command line, written in NodeJS.
Before installing cli-github, you have to ensure that NodeJS and GraphicsMagick are installed. If they are installed already, you can install CLI GitHub.
Using different service APIs may be difficult, especially for beginners, but not only. In this post, I will try to make clearer how to upload a video on YouTube, using NodeJS.
Back in 2013 I published my first NPM module: youtube-api–an object-oriented wrapper for the YouTube v3 API. People liked this module and the feedback came. Contributions, bug reports, stars etc. That means people actually used my module which is incredible. 💫
So, let's suppose you have a video file (codename: video.mp4) and you want to upload it on your YouTube account. While there are a couple of authenticating methods (JWT, OAuth2, Server Key etc), to upload videos on YouTube, you need OAuth2 authentication.
The documentation cleary states: