As a self-taught developer, it’s easy to feel like you missed out on something, and assume your colleagues who did get a degree know more than you. Your colleagues know about algorithms and CS concepts like data structures and you most likely don’t. Does having a degree or not having a degree even matter? In …
How I Come Up With Some of My Blog Post Ideas
The hardest part about blogging is thinking of what you should say. For me, this blog has become focused heavily on Aurelia and Javascript, blogging about other things occasionally. I tend to stick within the front-end development niche. When it comes to blog post ideas, believe it or not: Stack Overflow has been a very …
Checking If a View Slot Is Defined In Aurelia
Aurelia supports the <slot> element provided via the HTML Web Components specification, which allows you to define placeholders in your HTML that can be replaced. A lot of examples around seem to wrap a slot with a DIV, perhaps a class. The issue with this approach is if you have a styled DIV wrapping a …
Get Root $index Value From Within Nested Aurelia Repeaters
Recently in an Aurelia project, I was working with nested repeaters (3 levels deep). The problem was I needed to get the $index from the top level repeater (so, level one). Instinctively, I presumed that you could do this: $parent.$parent.$parent.$index This does not work. The $parent variable only extends to the parent and cannot be …
Aurelia Routing + Switching Root Using setRoot
In your Aurelia applications, you might have two or more roots defining different entry points into your application. I personally create a public facing root which has public routes and an auth protected shell which has routes for logged in users only. Let’s say for this example you have two roots: publicRoot and privateRoot. Your …
Module ES2015 and TypeScript 2.4 Dynamic Imports
Introduced in TypeScript 2.4 is support for the ECMAScript dynamic imports feature. If you didn’t see the announcement or read it properly, you’re probably here because you’re getting the following error. In my case I use Webpack and I was trying to add in some dynamic import goodness and getting this error: Dynamic import cannot …
Exciting New Firebase Features Announced at Google IO 2017
Admittedly, Google’s developer event IO has grown to be quite interesting the last couple of years. This year (2017) I was excited to see what would be announced in the world of Firebase. I’ve been using Firebase on and off for the last couple of years. Recently, I’ve found a renewed sense of excitement in …
Auth Protected Routes in Aurelia With Firebase
sing both Aurelia and firebase together is exceptionally convenient for my workflow. When it comes to authentication, I have certain routes I want to protect. The best way to add in authentication checks for routes in Aurelia is to create a router pipeline step. Specifically, an authorise pipeline step. Because of the way Firebase uses …
I Like Competitions
Kind of a strange post from what I usually post, but the last few months I have been addicted to entering online competitions. The fact I have won a few great prizes in just a few months probably helps. I won a runner up prize which was an LG television and then I won a …
Enabling CORS Middleware In Firebase Cloud Functions
Firebase Cloud Functions are great, but there might come a time where you need CORS support. This can be enabled easily by using the CORS middleware. The documentation does detail part of the process, but it doesn’t mention you need to install the cors package and also specify origin: true as a configuration option. If …
