Author: Max Drake

Having a self created API allows me to hook up data to connect to front end pages, so I can feed information from the API to the page. This tutorial is CRUD tutorial with firebase firestore and functions , so another item that I’m very interested in. This is the video series where Søren Spangsberg

I was trying to use a Material-UI blog template to explore using React ans MUi. I went to their Github page and its massive, and the small part that I wanted to use I couldn’t access from a Clone Repository. I was messing around inside github and accidentally Forked the repository. What this did is

This seems a practical tutorial to do. It does the basic things that yuou want, Create, Read, Update & Delete. He does a script upload for database populating, but I’m interested in using it as a web app for a to do list or project list. Github repository for code HERE. After downloading his code

Use gitgub to host your website is a free service that you can utilise as well as using Freenom to get a free domain name for the site instead of the github domain. To get the Custom domain secure you can use Cloudflare CDN. This is something that occurs when working on your own, you

There is a great series of videos on how to set up this project by the Net Ninja  (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4cUxeGkcC9iWstfXntcj8f-dFZ4UtlN3) The first video is: There is also a github repository with all the code here, you have to look at the branches to get the individual video lessons.  So from your VS Code terminal >git pull

This guys vids are pretty cool. After my last failure ot get a pre-built app to Deploy on Heroku I decided to start from scratch and do a tutorial on building a React App from Scratch, and i followed the tutorial below: I started at about 3.30am in bed using the Surface 3. It didn’t

This is one of Brad Traversy’s courses for making an expense app. There are earlier videos where he does it in vanilla JS then moves on to doing it with React and using State to store the data, then in the video below he uses a MERN Stack (MongoDB, Express, React & Node) and gets

My main blog site now has over 300 articles. It has been noticably slower this year. I’ve tolerated it but its got th e point where I have to have a more focussed look at it. Even opening the admin dashboard and opening a new post takes a while, which can be annoying when you

This is based on the video by FreeCodeCamp.org below and also I cloned the git repository to use their code for testing HERE: I’m interested in playing with the React front end, as I’ve been playing with the node.js backend so I felt that this tutorial was an extension. After getting my head around the

I went to a python meetup where one of the presentors was running a Python app using a google cloud function (GCF). I had to have it explained to me what these were, the thicko in the room. It ends up as an online environment that will run your code. It is dormant until you