Windows Integrated Authentication in node.js Client

2015 Update: There are now some modules that implement Windows-integrated authentication. node-sspi uses SSPI (the Windows security API) to handle the server side of things, but does not do client auth. There are several client implementations such as http-ntlm, but they are not truly integrated since they require the user password — they do not … Read more

How to get UTF-8 in Node.js?

Hook into you response generator or create a middleware that does the following: res.setHeader(“Content-Type”, “application/json; charset=utf-8”); Otherwise the browser displays the content in it’s favorite encoding. If this doesn’t help you DB is probably in the wrong encoding. For older node.js versions use: res.header(“Content-Type”, “application/json; charset=utf-8”);

Where does NPX store binaries after installation?

npm version 7 will cache the packages in a _npx directory. It has a cache layout that apparently involves a hash. For example, for me npx shellcheck installs the executable in ~/.npm/_npx/cca5ebdff9ce100b/node_modules/.bin/shellcheck. (Note the cca5ebdff9ce100b.) However, I very much doubt that the algorithm can be relied upon to be consistent across versions of npx. The … Read more

How do I compile my TypeScript code for Node.js to one file?

It is not possible to bundle Node.js modules into a single file with the TypeScript compiler alone: each file in the CommonJS module system (used by Node.js) is treated as a single module, and cannot be joined together without proper module bundling techniques found in the many JavaScript code bundlers out there (such as Browserify, … Read more

Docker: Are node alpine images at the end smaller than full node images?

Alpine images are smaller, since other packages using a lot of libraries, which are not used by your solution. What’s are the benefits to use small images? The benefits are: less memory, better performance, security and maintainability. A smaller docker image reduce the size needed on disk, but disk space is cheap. Much more important … Read more

“[circuit_breaking_exception] [parent]” Data too large, data for “[]” would be error

After some more research finally, I found a solution for this i.e We should not disable circuit breaker as it might result in OOM error and eventually might crash elasticsearch. dynamically increasing circuit breaker memory percentage is good but it is also a temporary solution because at the end after solution increased percentage might also … Read more