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Our first Hello World example was great and all, but while the console is extremely helpful for debugging, we actually want to put things in the browser, don’t we? So let’s do that now!

To be able to access our code from a webbrowser we will need a server. The standard-server for NodeJS is ExpressJS, so that’s what we will be using as well. We install it using npm from within your project-directory:

For those of you who never heard about a “Holy Grail Layout”: it refers to a web page layout that starts with a full-width header at the top of the page, followed by three columns containing the main content adjacent to two sidebars, all above a footer down at the bottom of the page (that stays there no matter the size of the main content).

The number of times I lost access to my MySQL-Database because I forgot the password is probably rather embarrassing. In uncounted web-searches I came up with several solutions to reset it. Some of them worked but were utterly difficult and some plainly didn’t work at all.

To save you the hassle of finding the best solution, I will just give it to you right now. It’s meant for a Debian-based Linux (Ubuntu in my case) but may work for other distributions as well.