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In this guide, we’ll cover how you can use Morgan npm to log requests and other aspects of your web application built on Express (or any of the similarly architected frameworks around). So what can Morgan do for you? And when would you need it? As you’ll see in a second if you’re working with Express or a similar framework (such as restify) you’ll have the need to log incoming information about the requests, this framework was designed specifically for that, just keep reading.

ReactJS combines the speed of JavaScript with unique rendering capabilities to make applications that are highly dynamic, performance oriented, and responsive to user input. State of JS report 2018 cites performance as the major reason ReactJS has gained so much popularity in such a short time. When it comes to options for building single-page applications (SPAs), React delivers performance advantages over Angular and other JavaScript frameworks and libraries.

The digital era always strives for newer and more innovative technology that can make the world a better place. The modifications that we are observing in current technology are not just rapid, but exponential.

Web applications like knockout.js help you to reach out to your audience and customers. And as your customer base increases, your web-application evolves so that you can cater to their varying needs. But the more features you introduce in your application, the more requests and responses need to be handled by your applications. That, coupled with design (CSS) can make your web applications pretty bulky. You must be thinking, “So what!

Vue.js is a front-end JavaScript framework that you can use to build progressive Single-Page Applications (SPAs). Evan You, an ex-Google employee, created Vue.js in 2014 with an idea of building a lightweight solution that had the best features from Angular and React. Since the day of its inception, Vue.js has been steadily gaining in popularity. Currently, its user base is triple to that of Angular, and a little more than Facebook’s React framework.

We’re happy to announce that the latest npm package for error tracking of your front-end with AppSignal has just been released. For those of you who aren’t really familiar with our error tracking service, we suggest you to take a deeper look into our docs. This was one of the bigger releases, and it includes many improvements and bug fixes. Here’s what we’ve done.

What is the most important feature an Express.js application can have? Maybe using sockets for real-time chats or GraphQL instead of REST APIs? Come on, tell me. What’s the most amazing, sexy, and hyped feature you have in your Express.js application? Want to guess what mine is? Optimal performance with minimal downtime. If your users can’t use your application, what’s the point of fancy features?

Every JavaScript project starts ambitiously, trying not to use too many NPM packages along the way. Even with a lot of effort on our side, packages eventually start piling up. package.json gets more lines over time, and package-lock.json makes pull requests look scary with the number of additions or deletions when dependencies are added. “This is fine” — the team lead says, as other team members nod in agreement. What else are you supposed to do?