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Javascript Copy to Clipboard for Excel

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I recently had a requirement to “export” data shown in a table on a web page to an Excel file.  In a normal situation I’d do something server-side to generate an Excel file with the necessary data, but unfortunately this situation was not a normal. The project I was working on did not have a server-side component – it was completely client-side code – so I couldn’t just create an Excel file.  The solution I came up with was to provide a way for the users to copy the required data to their clipboard and they could then paste it into an Excel document. Read more

Postman – Using Environments and Tokens

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Postman is an incredibly  useful tool for testing API’s.  I’ve been using it for a few years now and have found some features that make it a breeze to work with when it comes to secured API’s. It’s good for handling different environments as well.

Login and Tokens

A common pattern we use with our API’s is to use Javascript Web Tokens(JWT’s) for authentication. To work with this in Postman, I typically have a /login post call which returns a token. Then for any other calls to that API, I manually copy the returned token, and set the Authorization header to “Bearer <token>”. Although this works, it’s a pain when the login token expires and I have to copy a new token to the Authorization header for every saved API call.  For an API where you have a lot of endpoints saved, updating all the Authorization headers can become tedious. Read more

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