Perry Donham pdonham

I'm a professor in the computer science department at Boston University. I teach software engineering, application architecture, and development.

pdonham / request-promises.js

Created July 12, 2017 01:08

Using async.waterfall to synchronize aggregation of results when using promises

	/*
	Small demo to show chaining of API calls. We're using these APIs:
	https://weathers.co for current weather in 3 cities, and
	https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=<term> to search GitHub repos for
	the 'hottest' city. For example, we'll grab weather for 3 cities, pick the hottest one,
	then hit GitHub with a search for repos that have that city's name. A bit nonsensical
	but I just wanted to demonstrate using the results of one API call to populate a second.

	The problem we're trying to solve is that the API calls are asynch, and one of them
	(getCityTemperatures) loops through several asynch calls (one for each city), and they

pdonham / oauthTwitterNoPassport.js

Last active December 2, 2017 16:34

Three-step OAuth with Twitter demonstrating both authentication and authorization

	/* An example showing OAuth 1.0 against Twitter, based on a post at
	http://moonlitscript.com/post.cfm/how-to-use-oauth-and-twitter-in-your-node-js-expressjs-app/
	Comments are mine - PCD
	*/

	//Get a router instance
	//
	const express = require('express')
	const router = express.Router()

pdonham / UserWithCrypto.js

Last active November 24, 2020 06:16

Sample code for Using JWTs for Authentication in RESTful Applications (http://sites.bu.edu/perryd/?p=259)

	/*
	For this version we'll add a register method to add a user to the database using proper
	password encryption. It also demonstrates how to add and use a method on a schema.
	Reference: https://www.sitepoint.com/user-authentication-mean-stack
	*/
	const mongoose = require('mongoose')
	const crypto = require('crypto')
	//const findOrCreate = require('mongoose-findorcreate')

	//Set up ES6 Promises