A quick aide memoir on how to import data from a CSV formatted files into Firestore. If you have used the Pet Theory lab, this should be familar, but if not here is the code.

The general idea is to create a csv and import it directly into Cloud Firestore. To do this, the code will read the csv, then connect to …

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A quick guide on generating test data. If you have used the Pet Theory lab, this should be familar, but if not here is the code.

The general idea is to create a csv based on made up dataset. To do this, use the Fakerjs package and write the output as csv records.

If you have not worked with Fakerjs before, this is a …

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A REST API is super useful and can present a simple way to efficiently access information. This blog post is dedicated to the folks who want to create an API. It seems like a lot of folks are in this boat by the amount of comments over on sites like Reddit. Lets get started by building a GET/POST API in Node.js. …

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Node.js Installation

The Node.js programming language is an open source project to make programmers more productive.

Node.js is flexible and easy to learn. Its wide adoption is primarily down to the universal nature of the language. If you have a web browsers such as Google Chrome, it comes with a very rudamentary …

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