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Sending event invites through an email is a common use case nowadays in applications. In this blog, we will briefly cover the steps to accomplish this using Node.js. Node.js provide various npm modules for sending iCal invite. We have customized one of the modules and used it according to our use case. You can find the module here . ...
Lets start with a basic find query in mongoose and observe its execution time. [js] Event.find({'schedule.closing': {'$gte': +new Date()}}, {}, {limit:20, skip:0} ).exec(function (err, events){ ........ ........ } ); [/js] In my last project on Nodejs, I have used the above query to fetch the events...
While making an application, showing user's image is a very common use case. Gone were the days when we used to show anonymous image in case a person's profile image or display image is not present. We can easily show a person's name initials as an image to identify the person. Like : Lets consider this html, where we use an...
Javascript handles function and variable declartions quite differently and you must have got stuck in one of the awkard scenarios due to it. First of all, you should be familiar with Scoping in JavaScript. If you are, then you would know already that JavaScript only has function scopes and no block scopes. [js] var a = 'hello'; ...
In AngularJS, we can easily write our own custom directives to achieve required functionality. There are certain attributes which we provide in directive definition like restrict , scope , template, link, transclude etc. There is one more attribute named : require , which gives us the liberty to include another directive and inject...
In our previous post, we saw how simply we could use the free text search feature from MongoDB. In continuation to that, in this post we would be looking at how can we create multiple text indexes and understand how actually the things work. Document Scoring MongoDB assigns a score to each of the document that contains the search term...
MongoDb introduced free text search beta in its v2.4 but it was in experimental phase. In v.2.6, MongoDb has finally made its free text search (the most requested feature) production ready. In this post, we will have a look at how can we use this pretty useful feature that MongoDb offers us. To enable Free text search, Mongodb...
PhantomJS is used to emulate browsers through command line, for generating PDFs, web page manipulation, headless testing and much more interesting stuff. Npm provides us a module called "node-phantom" which helps us to use PhantomJS in our NodeJS application in a non-fussy way. A prerequisite for using this module is, you must have...
In my Angular project, I came across a situation where i had to render some html markup, but the tricky thing was, the markup was contained in some angular scope variable. And when outputting it, it just printed out the html markup as basic text. A quick Google search informed me about the directive ng-bind-html and...