Authorizing Feathers API Requests for Vue/React/Angular Apps Using Auth0 Recently I’ve been building a progressive web app (PWA) using VueJS as the frontend framework, FeathersJS as the backend API, and Auth0 as my authentication-as-a-service provider. Knitting these three components together turned out to be more difficult and time-consuming than I anticipated–not because it is difficult, but because of some fundamental misconceptions I had about […]
Building a Collaborative 900-pixel App-Controlled LED Light Show: Part 2 In Part 1 of this series, I introduced this project: I’m building a light show for my office in order to attract people to my office and to offer a creative, motivating outlet for people to learn to code. I spent most of the first post describing the calculations and components necessary to power 900 […]
Building a Collaborative 900-pixel App-Controlled LED Light Show: Part 1 I’m moving into a brand new office in a couple of weeks. I work at a university and mostly teach programming and web development. I was brainstorming about ways to make my office a place where I and others would really enjoy hanging out. I typically use my office almost exclusively as a place for […]
Setting up an API Testing Server with Ubuntu 16.04, Vagrant, VirtualBox, NodeJs and FeathersJs Recently, I’ve been using Feathers to generate REST and realtime data APIs for my Angular(2+) and Ionic(2+) apps. During development, it’s useful to have a local virtual machine that’s running the API. It’s pretty straightforward to swap out the live URL for the API server with the local dev API URL so that I don’t […]
Setting up a Secure API Server on DigitalOcean using Node Express, Mongoose, MongoDB, and Auth0 This is a tutorial on how to develop and deploy a secure REST API with JavaScript-based tools.
Creating a Vagrant Box for Strongloop Development with Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) So I’m working on a mobile app development project which is using Loopback for REST API generation. I wanted to set up a Vagrant box with the following attributes: Use VirtualBox Ubuntu Server 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) x64 Latest NodeJs (currently 6.11.3) Strongloop (npm package that installs CLI for working with loopback) This wasn’t as straightforward […]
Creating a Filter Pipe for Angular 2 (in Ionic 2) I’ve been getting into the world of building cross-platform mobile apps using the Ionic 2 Framework with Angular 2 for Typescript. Yesterday I needed to build a view that displayed a list of players that were grouped by the team that they’re on. The final view is shown here on the right. The solution was to […]
Super-fast Secure WordPress Install on DigitalOcean with NGINX, PHP7, and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Updated: 2018-01-01 I’ve recently begun migrating websites from my old web host to DigitalOcean. Today, I’m documenting the steps I use to stand up a new server instance. Some of these technologies are still close to the bleeding edge, so if you’re really worried about stability, you may want to stick with some of the […]
DIY LED Bubble Tube: Part 6–First Test! Okay, so I haven’t had a chance to 3D print the base for the tube that will hold all the components together, but I couldn’t wait to preview what the finished bubble tube was going to look like. So without further ado, take a look at this video: I have to say, I am totally […]
