Part 6: Node + Express for a ​S​imple ​S​ecurity ​M​odel

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Part of the Solid Foundations Learning Series

This is an in-depth learning series focused on a specific application: a JavaScript-based suite of single-page applications optimized for use in a microservice environment. We focus on telling the story of “why” and “how” it was built.

Throughout this series, we have touched on adding navigation, content and single-page applications, but we haven’t touched on the security of the application yet.

In this article, we’re going to add a simple security model to the application which will accept a login, validate a user, redirect to a secure page, enable a logout, and catch any errors which occur during the process. Let’s get started.

Part 2: Navigation​ Setup with Node + Express ​

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This is an in-depth learning series focused on a specific application: a JavaScript-based suite of single-page applications optimized for use in a microservice environment. We focus on telling the story of “why” and “how” it was built.

In part one, we reviewed how the base application was created by using the Express Generator command line tool. We also reviewed the folder layout, look and feel, and an overview of what each section of the application does. In this post, we’re going to dive in a little deeper to the application and explain the why and how of the navigation setup for this application….

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Making Regular Expressions Simple With VerbalExpressions

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Regular expressions are not the easiest thing in the world to quickly understand. Most developers only work with regular expressions when they really, really have to.

But what if there was another way?

There is and it’s called VerbalExpressions. VerbalExpressions is a collection of over two dozen repositories and libraries that use plain and simple language to describe a regular expression. In fact the motto they use is, “Regular Expressions made easy”.

VerbalExpressions is a quick and easy way to write complex regular expressions. In this blog, I will use the VerbalExpressions JavaScript implementation as my library of choice to demonstrate this great tool to you.

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Beyond Coding: Engineering in an AI-Native SAFe World

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Artificial Intelligence is changing where engineering value is created: less in producing artifacts by hand, and more in making better technical decisions. In SAFe, that change extends well beyond code generation. It affects how Agile Release Trains prepare for PI Planning, how architects manage the Architectural Runway, how teams validate quality, and how organizations learn from delivery data.

In my earlier three-part series on the Foundations of SAFe, I covered its values, core principles, benefits, drawbacks, and practical application. As SAFe evolves, the next question is how AI will change the way those principles are practiced in real engineering organizations.

This article looks at what AI practices mean for engineering work inside SAFe. Rather than just faster coding, the real gains are in better planning, stronger architecture, faster feedback, and more accountable engineering decisions across the Scaled Agile Framework.