Boilerplate code for JWT authentication for a TypeScript Express JSON API delivered over HTTP. Purpose The purpose of this TypeScript module is to make it easy to set up a new authenticated Express API without having to write all the code that allows user login, authentication, JWT handling, changing passwords, etc. There are many ways […]
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In this post I will go over a Python module I made that makes it really easy to test HTTP JSON APIs and print a pretty result in the terminal. I made this module really for myself as I create some new APIs using TypeScript and express. I originally dabbled a bit with Mocha and […]
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Update: A more comprehensive PHP CRUD API in just one file which can be used with React or Angular SPAs. I wrote one of my earlier posts about an Angular Flat File CMS and wanted to follow through on the ideas of that post. At the time, I did not realize how powerful Google Sheets […]
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In any business there will always be an extensive list of tasks that must be repeated, whether it is paying your bills on time, processing an excel spreadsheet exported from a random program, or even accessing an outdated system just to manually copy certain values in a spreadsheet. It can be quite a mess, so […]
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I previously wrote about building an Iot Analog Colorimeter with the Particle Photon and Python and then subsequently training a naive machine learning classifier with sklearn. I thought it would be fun to expand upon those posts and connect the Iot Colorimeter to an Angular 4 app. This will be a very simple example where […]
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Let’s up the ante from last time and introduce PostgreSQL into the mix, enabling us to add tv shows to a database table. What is special about this set up is that we are using a separate Docker container for Python, PostgreSQL, and nginx, which means that as long as you have Docker set up […]
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I’ve enjoyed using Python to create simple APIs, such as the one for the SMS Marketing Tool I previously posted on. I am writing this post to share the way I have been developing these APIs with Flask-RESTful using Docker containers and nginx. Using Docker enables you to easily deploy your application on any Linux […]
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Requirements A way to send SMS messages to subscribers for marketing purposes Only authorized users should be able to send messages Proposed Solution A very simple application in which an authorized user may send SMS via a single form. First the user must login: Following login the authenticated user is greeted by a simple form […]
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In a previous post I went over how to authenticate an Angular 4 app using PHP sessions and flat files. While that is definitely a method that will work, I wanted a bit more of a robust authentication method that doesn’t require files on your server at all other than the application itself. Auth0 is […]
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As a part of Building an Angular 4 CMS with Flat Files I knew it would be important to generate forms to enable administrators to edit website content. You could make individual forms for every page or piece of content, but I find if you put the right work in upfront you can create much […]
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