programming Archives - Stan Slupecki

5 August 201721 December 2018

Sessions and Cookies, a Quick Overview

Picture of the Session Monster, an orange monster (in the style of Sesame Street's Cookie Monster), with a cookie in his hand

What are Sessions and Cookies?

Getting straight to the point, sessions and cookies are used to store data when working in the web. Here, I intend to introduce the concepts behind these technologies in a programming language agnostic environment.

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27 July 201721 December 2018

NPM Crash Course

A terminal outputting the results of using the 'npm init' command, including a summary of what the command does, and a prompt for a package name value, with the default being "example"

A Little NPM Crash Course

Node Package Manager, or NPM, is an essential tool for working with Node.js, and anything that builds off of it. Quite frankly, it is named well: it is a command line tool that is used to manage Node packages, though it does host other JavaScript files. Here, I intend to both address common NPM ideas and concepts, and create a quick reference for NPM, for later use.

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