Part 1: Setting up using React Native and ExpoPart 2: Ditching ExpoPart 3: Adding authentication with firebase So, for my next project, I’ve decided to build a mobile app. The (tentative) name of the app is Keep UP. It is a Personal Relationship Management tool to helps you keep up with friends & family. Here’s how it is meant to work: The user adds a contact. Mostly just the name.The user can add a note about the contact.The…
Serverless deployment, the intriguing topic grabbing a lot of attention from rookies and veterans alike in the tech ecosystem is finally here. In this article we’ll be taking a practical approach to serverless deployment, also referred to as FaaS (Function as a Service). Serverless architecture, simply put is a way to build and run applications and services without managing server in infrastructure. Practical approach? We’ll be building a telegram weather bot using node.js, which will…
Now, most people who have built websites have included forms. Regular text elements, number, select (dropdown), checkboxes and radio buttons. The problem A situation I’ve often encountered is where we need the user to choose from a very long list of options. The easiest thing to do is to put all the options into a select element. However, this is impractical because… It can make for a very terrible user experience If all the options…
Laravel Mix provides a fluent API for defining Webpack build steps for your application using several common CSS and JavaScript pre-processors. The lovely creators of Laravel Mix, put in the common webpack configurations and you can add more custom configurations if you wish. This is especially wonderful for people that want to use webpack, but feel like configuring webpack is too difficult. Or maybe they wanted to use ES2016 but saw some complicated article about…
Docker is a wonderful tool for many things. A few of them are; As a version control system for your entire app’s operating system by storing each configuration as a central build. To distribute/collaborate our app’s operating system with our team. To run your code on your laptop in the same environment as you have on your server. We are going to explore Docker images. Why we should use them, and how to go about…
