Building a Start Page Using Angular
Recently, I stumbled upon a sub-Reddit called /r/startpages. The concept of having a “start page” isn’t new, but for some reason it struck me as something that I’d like to do and I don’t...
Category: JavaScript
Express + TypeScript + Mongo – Part 4 – Swagger
If you’re building a fairly large API you’re going to want to document it so the consumers know what to expect. There are several ways to do this. The most common way is to...
Express + TypeScript + Mongo – Part 3 – Mongoose
In the previous articles of this series, we rebuilt the original “ToDo server” application in TypeScript and used Mongo instead of MySQL. In this article, we’ll explore changing the server a bit more by...
Fixing TypeScript Intellisense in VSC
I recently had an issue with my installation of Visual Studio Code where Intellisense wasn’t working properly for my TypeScript projects. All of the suggestions I found on StackOverflow or random blogs pointed to...
Express + Typescript + Mongo – Part 2 – Connecting to Mongo
In the previous article, we got our Express project setup and our endpoints defined. In this article, we’ll connect it to an existing Mongo server. The first thing you’ll need to do is install...
Express + Typescript + Mongo – Part 1 – Getting Started
About a year ago, I wrote a series where I showed how to create a very simple “To Do” client and server application. The server was written in Java and used JEE and MySQL....
What is a Data URI and how do I use it?
What is a Data URI? A Data URI is a URI that starts with the “data” scheme and allows you to easily embed all kinds of objects within your web page. Much like Blob...
Creating Blobs and Blob URIs
In the previous article, we talked about Blob URIs, which is just a reference to a Blob in a web browser. A Blob, as previously mentioned, can be anything. In this article, we’ll walk...
What is a Blob URI?
Recently, I started working on a project that extensively utilizes blobs and blob URIs. Wide-spread browser support for blobs has been around for more than several years now. If you aren’t familiar with blob...
Earthquake Project – Part 3
The final piece to our project is to stitch together all of the PNG frames we generated last time into a single MP4 video. We’ll utilize a 3rd party program to do most of...