This is another simple guide that I am putting together for my future self. As I make my latest app from the ground up I want to document my experiences. This is not meant to be a thorough guide - it's just a list of steps needed to accomplish the goal. yarn add jsonwebtoken yarn...
I am continuing my recent trend of developing projects from the ground up. In my last article I focused on automated testing using mocha. In this article I want to focus on how to take a MERN project and move it to production via an automated build on Heroku. Why Heroku? First of all, it's...
Thomas Magnum of "Magnum P.I." fame (I am dating myself here) used to have a little voice that talked to him. I'd like to think that in some way we all have that voice. Here is a little secret - UI has never been my strong point. Don't get me wrong - I can go...
This is more in my series in setting up a project. I am knee-deep in setting up this project and I am trying to set up my base template at the same time. I've done this a few times - it feels great to be setting up a project from scratch. The beauty in this...
I thought that I would take the time to document this for myself as both times I did this previously I used different methods. As Tony Horton likes to say in the P90x videos... How do you know what to do if you don't know what you did? The following assumes that the project is...
1/28/2021 Status Prod, Staging, Dev and Test Environment Setup: COMPLETE Automated build and deploy from github: COMPLETE Backend Mongoose CRUID operations built with automated Mocha testing: COMPLETE UI: In progress. Is this ever really done? See here. Registration and Login via email / password: COMPLETE Staging Server URL (note that it may take a minute...
I am ramping up towards creating my next project and I wanted a little more experience designing database schema. I have taken several courses by this instructor in the past and I got a ton of value out of them. Course: https://www.udemy.com/course/the-complete-developers-guide-to-mongodb/learn/lecture/6039188?start=0#overview My Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P4tCt5bPLlBTfhUw4kYcToKuAxLr1da8dYrFSH9qxRo/edit?usp=sharing
So I have a problem at my house: the float on the sump pump no longer works. This means that as soon as the pump emptied the sump and the float went to its natural state (down) that the pump would not shut off and would eventually burn out. It's a fairly common problem and...
