Node js Tutorial for beginners with examples - page 5

Question: How to check if path is file or directory?

var fs = require("fs");
console.log(fs.lstatSync('/file').isDirectory()); //true/false

Other useful commands

fs.lstatSync('/file').isFile();
stats.isDirectory().isBlockDevice();
stats.isDirectory().isCharacterDevice();
stats.isDirectory().isSymbolicLink() (only valid with fs.lstat());
stats.isDirectory().isFIFO();
stats.isDirectory().isSocket();

Question: How to create a new directory? If does not exist.

var fs = require('fs');
var dir = '/log_folder';

if (!fs.existsSync(dir)){
    fs.mkdirSync(dir);
}

Question: How do I URl Encode in Node.js?
for this, you can use encodeURIComponent (JS function)

encodeURIComponent('select * from table where i()')

Question: How do POST data in an Express JS?
for this, you must install express using "npm install express"

var express = require('express') , app = express.createServer();
app.use(express.bodyParser());
app.post('/', function(request, response){
  console.log(request.body);      
  response.send(request.body);    
});
app.listen(3008);

Question: How to output pretty html in Express?
for this, you must install express using "npm install express"

app.set('view options', { pretty: true });

Question: How to setup cron in NodeJS?
https://github.com/kelektiv/node-cron

Question: How to setup Logging in NodeJS?

Install log4js
```
npm install log4js
```

Configuraiton ./config/log4js.json)

{"appenders": [
    {
        "type": "console",
        "layout": {
            "type": "pattern",
            "pattern": "%m"
        },
        "category": "app"
    },{
        "category": "test-file-appender",
        "type": "file",
        "filename": "log_file.log",
        "maxLogSize": 10240,
        "backups": 3,
        "layout": {
            "type": "pattern",
            "pattern": "%d{dd/MM hh:mm} %-5p %m"
        }
    }
],
"replaceConsole": true }

Log data

var log4js = require( "log4js" );
log4js.configure( "./config/log4js.json" );
var logger = log4js.getLogger( "test-file-appender" );
logger.debug("Hello");//debug 
logger.info("Info logs"); //info
logger.error("Error logs") //error

Question: How redis works with NodeJS?
for this, you must install Redis

npm install redis

Include redis in code

redis = require('redis');

Create Redis object

var clientRedis = redis.createClient('6379', '127.0.0.1');

Save the data in Redis

clientRedis.hset("users", '10', 'roberts');  //Name, key, value

Delete the data from redis

clientRedis.del("users", 10);

Question: How to get current date in Nodejs?

new Date().toISOString();// '2016-11-04T14:51:06.157Z'

Web Technology Experts Notes

Monday, 20 March 2017