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Learn how to upload images to an Express server using the Multer middleware. We will also learn how to handle HTML forms with Express, different types of HTML form data encodings, and how to serve up static content with Express.
Learn how to serve up an SPA with Nginx. We will also go over what a single page application is and how to use the Nginx try_files directive.
Learn how to create a bash script to periodically reload Nginx inside a Docker container. This is useful for handling periodic SSL certificate updates.
Learn how to send an email from a Gmail account that contains user activity and errors from Nginx using Cron and Docker Compose. We will also learn about best practices when it comes to multiple processes in a Docker container, how Cron loads environment variables, and more.
Learn how to monitor user activity and errors with Nginx by using error and access logs. We will go over configuring these logs with the log_format, access_log, and error_log directives.
Learn how to create a Docker container with read/write and read only volumes. We will also learn the differences between read/write and read only volumes with a demonstration.
Learn about the chrome extension chrome.action API. We will go over its manifest.json configuration and how to work with it programatically.
Learn how to run a cron job inside a Docker container. We will also go over what a crontab is, the crontab format, and how to run cron in the foreground.
Learn how to add protected routes to an express app by using JWT authentication. Specifically, we will be using the jsonwebtoken library from npm.
Learn what a chrome extension service worker is, what the service worker lifecycle is, and how to respond to events with service workers.