In this post I will present some tricks that I learned creating demo sites for blog posts and PoCs. You will learn how to configure a JSON-server API and deploy it on the same Heroku site than the frontend app. You will also learn how to use Faker to generate fake data for your JSON server.
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Sharing knowledge is not only a service to those around us, but it also helps us in deepening our own understanding.
See how you can set up a statically generated blog with Hugo and GitHub Pages in less time than most movies take!
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The idea of an API-first approach is to treat APIs as first-class citizens by building the software product around APIs.
Formal specifications serve as the contract and define, what the consumer can expect from the API.
To ensure consistency of the contract and the implementation, some parts of the source code can be generated from the specification document.
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This post shows how to use git hooks, to prevent commit or push under certain circumstances, and particularly how to version those git hooks.
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During the past few years, browser applications built with modern frameworks have been taking over the static, native applications we were used to use. The key of their success is the ability to disguise like system applications, emulating complex techniques like animations which they use to retain the consistency with other native applications. In this blog post we will learn how we can use Angular to write complex animations directly from our code, and we will learn their benefits over standard CSS transitions.
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