How to Track "Blipped" Marvel Characters with Node.js & CockroachDB

1 · CockroachDB · Sept. 9, 2021, 4 p.m.
If you remember from the Marvel Avengers movies, one of the most critical and universe-defining events is “the blip” or “the snap.” This article will show you how to build a simple web app using Node.js that shows all the Marvel characters and their “blip” status, giving us the ability to update each character’s blip state on the database by clicking a button. We use Express.js as our framework and Pug for page templates and seed the database with character data from the official Marvel API whil...