Pass Data Between Routes In A Vue.js Web Application

November 22, 2017 Nic Raboy

A few weeks ago I had written about creating routes and navigating a Vue.js web application. It was a basic example of getting around in an application.

Often, when building navigation into your application, you'll find that you need to pass data from one screen to another. For example, maybe you're following the master-detail pattern where you have a list of data and you get more information about a particular item in the list by drilling deeper.

We're going to see how to pass data between routes in a Vue.js web application using a router and URL parameters as well as query parameters.

Send SMS Text Messages In NativeScript With Angular

November 20, 2017 Nic Raboy

Not too long ago I wrote a tutorial titled, Use Social Media Sharing Prompts in a NativeScript Angular Application, which demonstrated how to share content from the device. The sharing included locations like Facebook, Twitter, and anything else the platform found appropriate. This included SMS text messages.

Social sharing functionality isn't the only way to access the messaging and dialing features of an Android and iOS device.

We're going to see how to send SMS text messages in Android and iOS via an application built with NativeScript and Angular.

Earn Extra Money As A Programmer With A Developer Blog

November 17, 2017 Nic Raboy

If you've been a long time subscriber to The Polyglot Developer, you'll know that I use the blog as a way to document what I learn on a day to day basis. I'll never remember what I did six months ago unless I document the steps to reproduce it later.

I'd like to think that I'm a developer first and a blogger or technical writer second. However, did you know that I'm earning money from both sides of this technical spectrum? I'm earning money from my day job as well as the blog.

We're going see a few things that will get you started with earning money through a programming blog.

Using A Mapbox In A NativeScript Angular Application

November 13, 2017 Nic Raboy

Including map functionality in your mobile application is often a very important necessity, depending on the scenario. Maybe your application needs to do navigation, or simply just show locations on a map.

There are many different map providers, the most popular being Google Maps. However, Mapbox is picking up steam because of how easy it is to use and its pricing model.

We're going to see how to include Mapbox in our NativeScript Android and iOS mobile application using Angular and TypeScript.

Process File Uploads In Node.js With Hapi Framework

November 10, 2017 Nic Raboy

When building a web application, I personally find file uploads to be the most complicated part of the job. For example, how do you accept the files, and what do you do with them after you've received them in the request?

Not too long ago I wrote about accepting file uploads in Node.js sent via Angular. In this example I was using Express and the Multer middleware. What if you're interested in using one of the more modern Node.js frameworks instead of Express?

This time around we're going to explore processing file uploads with Hapi and Node.js.

Use A Router To Navigate Between Pages In A Vue.js Application

November 8, 2017 Nic Raboy

When building a modern web application, being able to navigate between pages is a necessity. Not to mention it is very important to be able to do so easily. To make this possible, frameworks such as Angular, React, and Vue use what's known as a router and a set of routes. Each possible point of navigation, or page, is a route with its own configuration.

We're going to see how to configure a set of routes and navigate between them using Vue.js and the vue-router library.

Handling CORS Related Issues In An Express Framework Node.js Web Application

November 6, 2017 Nic Raboy

Proper cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) configuration is one of those things that is completely necessary when building a RESTful API, but also one of those things that is a total pain in the butt when it comes to prototyping an application. CORS related errors are common when testing a web application where the front-end JavaScript layer exists on a different port or host than the API that it tries to access.

Previously I had written about configuring cross-origin resource sharing via a Golang RESTful API, but this time we're going to explore the same using Node.js and Express Framework.