October 2021 – Full Stack Soup

Node.js – API Web Scraping HTML Table Values With Cheerio

By -Danny B.
Posted on October 26, 2021December 16, 2021
Posted in Node.js, Web Scraping

Overview This article will go through the steps needed to create a Node.js API to return scraped data in JSON format using cheerio. Cheerio is one of the easiest scrapers I have used. Even easier than Beautiful Soup for Python. It is great for many sites and there are ways around the more complex sites

Upload Resized Images to Node.JS API with React

By -Danny B.
Posted on October 16, 2021October 21, 2022
Posted in Full Stack Development, Node.js, React

Overview This article is a how-to for resizing files on the client side that are uploaded to a folder with the meta data stored in a SQLite database table. This example consists of a react client application for the client-side with a dropzone and a NodeJS API to handle the uploads. Also the client app

React – Saving an Encrypted List to Local Storage

By -Ivy Barish
Posted on October 12, 2021November 20, 2021
Posted in Material UI, React

Overview Local Storage is a web storage object in the browser with a much greater capacity than cookies and twice that of Session Storage. Unlike Session Storage, the data never expires unless the user clears the browser’s cache. You can store up to 10mbs of data and it is accessible in any browser tab. Typically