Author: Max Drake

I’ve been trying to learn server side programming using node js. I’m running node js on localHost and now want to deploy some code that will run so that it can be accessed outside of my PC. I’ve been following the Code Train videos and the one below shows how to do some web application

I’m looking at trying to host a node.js instance on something like Heroku and for pushing to Heroku I saw in the Code Train videos on deploying node that Daniel was using git commands to push the info across to Heroku. Another reason is that I’m sometimes working in the bedroom, sometimes in the living

I’m going to try and follow this tutorial, some of the early ones are stuff I’ve done before, but the reference to the npm video was interesting. Also to the npm site for looking at packages. Two other resources I just want to highlight. 1/ Daniel Shiffman website and 2/ npm website for packages. Objectives

This is based on the video by Brad Traversy below: Just as a tag, there is a wiki api page here. I’m putting it here instead of previous article because the website is going extremely slowly. I liked the idea of this and the beginning part when he was pulling the whole page worked fine.

This is really interesting. Brad Traversy’s Create a Fake REST API with JSON-Server video follows on from my learning post about Node.js with The Coding Train’s tutorials. I’m being pulled in 2 directions at this time, 1/ Trying to get my head around using APIs and building them & 2/ Creating a Node.js server somewhere

I found that there were some plugins for data using shotrtcodes. This is one of them. Corona Virus Data By Duke Yin So this is calling an API to get the data, I’m not sure of the refresh rate.

The next part in the equation. A little AHA! moment. After building the API dash for Covid for NZ I found that it was SLOW! I tried cleaning the code up a bit and that did help but it was still SLOW. I then thought about how plases like John Hopkins and how they were

Its been slower writing the last 100 posts compared to the previous 200. But I’ve got there, with this being the 300th post. You can view the actual table here. Your browser does not support iframes Slower because of other activities I’ve broken out of just exploring this area of posting and started doing a

This is in fact an article How to import JSON data into Google Sheets to create a live COVID-19 chart that I came across on my RSS feed from Datawrapper. I want to follow this as it sort of comes full circle. I’d started my covid data exploration with Google Sheets and importXML() and now,

Developing my covid map using API data pulled in in JSON format has caused me some grief. I have spent a couple of days with no progress at all trying to get variable data pushed through a function to use in a JS Template literal. In the end I had to wrap the whole thing