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Apple's App Store is the holy grail for mobile developers. With React Native you can develop native apps for Android and iOS using a single code-base but getting things ready for publishing can be tricky, especially if you are starting with an originally Android-only application.
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There's a lot going on in the Java ecosystem lately. Now that major Java versions are released every six months, it can be difficult to keep up. Personally, I develop the majority of my Java applications using Spring Boot. Because of this, I was stuck on Java 8 until Spring…
Read more about Better, Faster, Lighter Java with Java 12 and JHipster 6
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If you're like me, you love music. Music is always streaming somewhere in my house at all times. I especially like going to see live music, but it can be hard to know where and when live music is happening. LiveMusicFinder is a web application that allows users to enter…
Read more about Build a CRUD App with ASP.NET Core 2.2 and Entity Framework Core
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In this tutorial, you're going to use Kubernetes to deploy a Spring Boot microservice architecture to Google Cloud, specifically the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). You're also going to use Istio to create a service mesh layer and to create a public gateway. The whole thing is going to be secured…
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In this post, you'll walk through how to build a simple Spring Boot application and test it with Junit 5. An application without testing is the proverbial Pandora's Box. What good is your application if you don't know that it will work under any condition? Adding a suite of tests…
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If you haven't heard of PostgreSQL (often called Postgres), today's your lucky day. It's a robust, open source relational database that powers some of the world's largest applications. In this post, I'll show you how to create a REST API in Node that uses Postgres as a data store. I'll…
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There are a lot of things for .NET developers to love about TypeScript. It has strong typing that .NET Developers are used to and the ability to use the latest JavaScript features. Since it is just a superset of JavaScript, the cost to switch is almost nothing. Getting Visual Studio…
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Microsoft recently released the preview of Visual Studio 2019 for Windows, and it's got lots of improvements and features! After reading the release notes, I reached out to Allison Buchholtz-Au and Kendra Havens on the Visual Studio team at Microsoft to get an idea of what features should be configured…
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Developers all have their favorite GitHub repositories. They have software projects that they love and watch closely for the latest changes. In this tutorial, you'll create a simple CRUD application to save and to display your favorite GitHub open source projects. You will use Angular to implement the user interface…
Read more about Build a CRUD App with Python, Flask, and Angular
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Microservices are fun to build and offer us a scalable path to overcoming problems with tightly coupled dependencies that plague monolithic applications.
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We are moving toward a 'SMART' world where everything is interconnected and almost all things or devices are interactive. From a gesture-driven by an actual human being to automated interactions from another device or application, a lot of developers and even non-computer savvy users are trying to explore this space.
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So, you have been learning all about web technologies including JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. The advantage of web technologies is, of course, that the same software can be used on many different platforms. But this advantage comes with a number of problems. Web applications have to be run inside a…
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