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Firebase database.ServerValue.TIMESTAMP get current time

Firebase Server Time STAMP can only retive the value when it comminted to firebase database var currentTimeStamp=firebase.database.ServerValue.TIMESTAMP; value for this will be set when datbase operation like set ,push or update occures . In order to get the value you need to write code like below.   ref.child(test).child(time-stamp').set(firebaseAdmin.database.ServerValue.TIMESTAMP).then(function() {                           ref.child(test).once('value').then(function(Snapshot) {                                                          var currentTimeStamp= Snapshot.val()['time-stamp']; }); });

Firsby for Unit test Firebase REST API

Firebase required to iniciate in order to run test cases. Firsby is a api testing fromwork ,which can work with jasmine.  npm install jasmine-node -g Install frisby.js http://frisbyjs.com/ Create spec file witih spec folder Import depeldancy var request = require("request"); var server = require("./../src/test.js");   // server file var frisby = require('frisby'); Header value for every request frisby.globalSetup({ request: { headers: {'AccessToken':process.env.test_token}. // taken from the .env } }); Dependent Request frisby.create(' Login')   .post(process.env.npm_config_host+'/api/login',{.  //take the host when running test command         "profile-type": "test",         "mess-token":"" }) .after(function(err, res, body) {   frisby.create('Dome')     .post(process.env.npm_config_host+'/api/user',{           "profile-type": ...

Uplaod to Firebase Storage from Node Express REST

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I need to upload user profile picture from mobile device trogh rest API to Firebase storage .Finally I go the follwing articale wich really guide me .  https://mzmuse.com/blog/how-to-upload-to-firebase-storage-in-node In order to upload the file from Express REST I used connect-busboy and fs node modules . Route file   router.post('/api/user-pic/profile-type/:type', ProfilePicController.setProfile); Controller File    exports.setProfile = function(req, res, next) {                     var fstream;                     req.pipe(req.busboy);                     req.busboy.on('file', function (fieldname, file, filename) {                                           console.log("Uploadin...

Node Express REST API Document while coding

I have used apidoc in my  Node Express REST Project . It works like charm and cpable to handle document versioning. APIDOC Inline Documentation for RESTful web APIs http://apidocjs.com/#param-api-description 1.npm install apidoc - g 2. /** * @api {get} /tasks/:id Find a task * @apiGroup Tasks * @apiDescription User login + register user if user login for the frist time. * @apiParam {id} id Task id * @apiSuccess {Number} id Task id * @apiSuccess {String} title Task title * @apiSuccess {Boolean} done Task is done? * @apiSuccess {Date} updated_at Update's date * @apiSuccess {Date} created_at Register's date * @apiSuccessExample {json} Success * HTTP/1.1 200 OK * { * "id": 1, * "title": "Study", * "done": false * "updated_at": "2016-02-10T15:46:51.778Z", * "created_at": "2016-02-10T15:46:51.778Z" * } * @apiErrorExample {json} Task not f...

ENOENT: no such file or directory, rename : node_modules/async

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I have gone trough follwing error ,when I was updating npm. npm ERR! path /Users/interlectivethree/firebase/fetchme/server/node_modules/winston/node_modules/async npm ERR! code ENOENT npm ERR! errno -2 npm ERR! syscall rename npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, rename '/Users/interlectivethree/firebase/fetchme/server/node_modules/winston/node_modules/async' -> '/Users/interlectivethree/firebase/fetchme/server/node_modules/winston/node_modules/.async.DELETE' npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file. npm ERR! enoent npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR!     /Users/interlectivethree/.npm/_logs/2017-07-07T14_17_29_016Z-debug.log I have done sevarel things like package wise unstall and install ,package relocating .But no success .But I think compleate unstall and reinstall is the best option and follwing commands used. npm uninstall ` ls - 1 node_modules | tr '/\n' ' ...

Docker Dev Environment with Nodemon and Mongo DB

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1 Install Docker  Community ediction and Composer https://blog.codeship.com/using-docker-compose-for-nodejs-development/ 2 . Sampe application resides in server folder which have the package.json file ensure package.json  has script.  "start": "nodemon -L index.js" ensure nodemon.json exhist 3. touch Dockerfile. FROM node:8.1.0-alpine RUN mkdir /server RUN npm install nodemon -g ADD ./server /server WORKDIR /server RUN npm install #ADD server/nodemon.json /server/nodemon.json EXPOSE 3000 CMD npm start 5. docker-compose build 6.touch docker-compose.yml version: '2' services:   web:     build: .     volumes:     - "./server:/server"     ports:       - "3000:3000"     links:       - mongo   mongo:     image: mongo:3.4.4     container_name: mongo     ports:       - "27017:27017" 7.docker-co...

Firebase Promises

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 Firebase Nodejs requests are Asyncronus .Which means, in the follwing code block I need to check order users exhist before set user. But the user order insert fucntion written second will fire before validation finished .Developer need to careful on this when firebase adopted.     for(var user in users) {                                              f irebase.database().ref("users"); users.once("value", function(snapshot) {                                      var temp= snapshot.exists();                                                             if (temp) {             ...