As software developers, we spend just some hours of our day coding. Most of the time goes to planning, thinking, meeting, reading, reviewing code and of course to read our beloved error messages. …

One of the skills that often distinguish a Junior developer from a Senior developer, is efficiency. Efficiency is obviously a result of many different factors, the most important being probably the experience. …

Part 1: Get a deeper understanding of the ecosystem around web applications, in order to be a more confident programmer. — This is a mini-series aimed to give a deeper understanding of the ecosystem around web applications, in order to be a more confident programmer. Part 1: What is a server? Part 2: Cloud Computing & Containers Part 3: Hosting solutions (to come) The server is a well-known term that has…

Several times in my carrier I approached GraphQL and learned the basics. I watched videos, read the documentation, and even worked on simple projects with GraphQL; still, I often had the feeling the whole ecosystem was not clear to me. While teaching GraphQL to students with Frontend development skills, I…

TL;DR In this tutorial, we will build a login/registration form with Expressjs, Session Auth, Reactjs, and Material UI. This is part three of three and in this part, we will build a registration and login form, send data to the API and fetch user’s data from the backend, using the…

TL;DR In this tutorial, we will build a login/registration form with Expressjs, Session Auth, Reactjs, and Material UI. This is part two of three and in this part, we will focus on authorizing the user with session saved in the database. Here is the final code: https://github.com/gsambrotta/auth-session-mern-boilerplate Here is part…

TL;DR In this tutorial, we will build a login/registration form with Expressjs, Session Auth, Reactjs, and Material UI. This is part one of three and in this part, we will focus on setting up the project, creating an Express application, connecting with MongoDB, and creating login/registration API. Here is the…

Recently I moved from solo-vanlifer to couple-vanlifer. While traveling alone, lots of people I either know or met on my journey told me how brave I was for traveling alone with a van and how traveling as a couple would be easier. With a bit of surprise, I often got this feedback…

Nowadays there are a lot of tools that help create a single-page application quickly. For example to create a React application we can use Create React App which provides us with a ready-to-code application. This is good because it saves time to set up the configurations and settings that an application…