Published in Better Programming·PinnedMember-onlyHow To Add Authentication to a Vue.js App Using Auth0Add authentication to your Vue app using Auth0 — Auth0 is a flexible, drop-in solution to add authentication and authorization services to your applications. See how easy it is to add to your Vue application so you can register and log in users with their email address and a password. What We Will Be Creating We are going to create a very simple Vue…Programming10 min read
Apr 8Member-onlyWTF Is The Blockchain?Blockchain is an extremely hot topic nowadays: you’ll see articles describing this phenomenon in almost every newspaper and magazine, even where you would hardly expect it to see. Even if you haven’t read about Blockchain in your favorite newspaper or magazine, chances are you have heard Elon Musk tweeting about…Blockchain6 min read
Published in Better Programming·Jan 23Member-onlyUtilizing the Coinbase API in a Node.js ApplicationGet a list of all your cryptocurrency transactions — In the previous article, I showed you how to use the Coinbase API to authenticate your application so that anybody can use it. In this article, I will show you how to build on this by: getting user details getting a list of all user accounts get a list of…Programming8 min read
Published in Better Programming·Jan 23Member-onlyHow to Access the Coinbase APIusing OAuth2 — Coinbase is a cryptocurrency exchange where you can buy popular coins like Bitcoin and Ethereum. In this series of articles, I will show you how to utilize the Coinbase API to see a list of cryptos that you hold as well as all the transactions for a specific crypto coin. …Cryptocurrency8 min read
Published in Towards Data Science·Feb 15, 2021Member-onlyGot App? Got Data? Here’s how to store data to MongoDB in a Node / Express AppEvery application has data. Let me show you how to store your data in a MongoDB database from an app written with Node.js and Express.js. What is CRUD CRUD is an acronym for Create, Read, Update and Delete. CRUD is the operations that you use to: create data in a database read the…Nodejs22 min read
Published in Better Programming·Jan 3, 2021Member-onlyHow to Add Authentication to a Vue.js App Using AWS AmplifyAWS Amplify is a tool for adding authentication for front-end applications. See how easy it is to add it to your Vue app. — What We’ll Be Creating We’re going to create a very simple Vue application using the Vue CLI. We’ll modify the default scaffolded application so it provides a form to register as a new user, a login page, and a dashboard page only shown to people that are logged in. Users will be able to…Programming10 min read
Published in Better Programming·Dec 28, 2020Member-onlyHow to Add Authentication to a Vue.js App Using FirebaseAdd Firebase auth to your Vue app — Firebase provides a very simple and quick way to add authentication to your Vue.js application. In this article, I will show you how easy it is to allow users to register with your application using their email and password. What We Will Be Creating We are going to create a very simple Vue application using…Programming9 min read
Published in Vue.js Developers·Nov 16, 2019Member-onlyForm Validation with Vuetify in a Vue AppYour forms can provide a great user experience. Here is how. Almost every website today has a form that they ask users to fill out. A basic WordPress blog will have a contact us form. An e-commerce website will have a cart checkout form. …Java Script13 min read
Published in The Startup·Nov 1, 2019Member-onlyCreating a Pinterest style image gallery in VueIn this article I will show a quick and easy way to create a Pinterest style layout grid to showcase images. This grid will be responsive meaning that it will automatically resize as the browser window increases or decreases in size.This will display images regardless of their individual height and…Java Script10 min read
Published in Vue.js Developers·Sep 2, 2019Member-onlyHow to Use Environment Variables in Vue.jsMost applications will access data from an API. To access that API you will need to have an API key and the URL to access the API. You should not be pushing your API keys to you repo because that makes them available to everyone. The solution is to store…Java Script3 min read