Now and then I like to redevelop my site using a new technology/idea/process. This time around it was a mixture of wanting to learn Sapper and a desire for wanting a more mobile-friendly editing experience that led me to start the redevelopment. That, and the fact that every 6 months…

As a creator of web apps, chances are that you’ll eventually need some form of Authentication. Developing a full-fledged authentication system, with email verification and forgotten password systems, is difficult to get right and even harder to prove secure. The alternative is to go for an “off the shelf” identity…

Vue 3 introduces us to the Composition API, something aimed at addressing code reuse and maintainability in VueJS apps. Here’s a quick overview and some advice on how to structure your code. Vue 3 is here! And with it comes the much-talked-about Composition API which aims to address the current…

Adding simple custom cookie-based authentication to a .NET core 3.1 app I’m engaged! Not often the start you see to a blog/tutorial about how to develop some code but there you go. I say it because it provides context as to where this tutorial comes from. My Fiance and I…

VueJS is an ultra-flexible front-end JavaScript framework for Single Page Applications, below is a small suggestion for how to structure pieces of your app to make them a little more manageable. VueJS is pretty lenient regarding how you structure your application, especially compared to Angular which has relatively strict guidelines…

Creating a GraphQL API using DotNet Core 3 and graphql-dotnet So the other day I stumbled across The Movie Database, and more interestingly, The Movie Database API. It provides a REST API to retrieve and search Movies, TV Shows, Actors etc. as well as adding reviews and such. I stumbled…

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about Push vs Pull in software development; two terms that refer to how work is moved through the development life cycle, from planning in to production. Push vs Pull is not an argument solely reserved for Software Development. It is actually a concept that…

JAMStack is an architectural paradigm that is gaining popularity amongst developers, particularly front-end developers. Here are some of my biggest takeaways from the recent JAMStack conference. I’m a big fan of the JAMStack. Particularly I’m a massive fan of Netlify and Headless Content Management Systems (CMS) in general. For those…

I’ve seen a lot of hate recently for TDD. People seem to think it’s either completely crazy or massively inefficient. However, done right I think it is an invaluable tool for software developers I recently read an article proclaiming Test-Driven Development (TDD) to be “ fundamentally wrong”. It was quite…