PDF Generation using NodeJS

This blog is about a feature request we received some time ago from one of our clients. The request was to generate a PDF with a given template, with dynamic data. A fair request one might say. In this read, I will briefly take you through the procedure we took to generate the PDF.

What’s new in Node-Data 2.0

Node-Data is an open source framework built by Talentica. Node-Data is a Node.js JavaScript framework for fast and reliable development of next generation apps and micro-services targeting scale. We have now released the second version of Node-Data.

Creating your first Node.js application with Node-Data

In this blog, we will learn how to create a Node.js application with Node-Data. Let’s assume that you are building an application for blogs and you want to create REST APIs which can be used by a front-end/mobile application.

• • Create blogs into database
  • Update blogs into database
  • Delete blogs from database
  • Find and fetch a blog using any existing blog ID from the database

Implement Microsoft login in a react.js app

In one of the recent projects I had a requirement to do integration with Microsoft Office365 Calendar Api and for that I needed to implement Microsoft login in a react.js app. I tried to search for a readily available npm package which I could consume easily and which fits nicely in the react ecosystem, but unfortunately I couldn’t find any so I decided to write my own.

Hoping that this might be useful to someone else as well, I also published it react-ms-login on npm. Read on to know how to use it.

FACEBOOK -RECEIVING PAGE UPDATES IN REAL TIME WITH WEBHOOKS

PROMOTING YOUR CAMPAIGN OR EVENT

Facebook is the most powerful  tool  in one’s arsenal for promotional purposes. It is responsible for eliciting more contributions to campaigns/events/fan-following than any other social networking tool.(not all may agree though).

So you create a facebook page and want to do analytics on its feeds and post, for that you may want to subscribe to it and  get it’s real time updates to evaluate how you are performing. But alas it’s official api documentation is in Klingon, but as always, deciphering Facebook’s documentation is a form of art. So in this blog I will try to guide you through the same.