Delve into the Full-Stack World
In this blog, I explore everything full-stack web developer related from niche bug fixes, mobile development, API configuration and web developer lifestyle matters.
For front-end developers I'll be detailing all sorts of configuration and quirks when working with JavaScript, Angular, React and Ionic/Capacitor.js.
For the back-end developers, I work with Node.js, C#/.NET and SQL or MongoDB. If that applies to you, there'll be tidbits to make your life easier.
Follow me on Twitter @Mick_Patterson_ for updates and thoughts on life.
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What is the Partial Type in Typescript
June 04, 2022The Partial type in Typescript is a built in type that provides some very useful functionality to us to help manipulate other user-defined…
How to Add a Column to a SQL Server Table
June 02, 2022Modifiying existing SQL tables is a common use case as the data models for your application change. The most basic of these modifications is…
Use Azure DevOps to deploy a NodeJs Function app
March 31, 2022Setting up continuous deployment on an Azure Function app can save a lot of time, particularly if your development process follows small…
Add Auto-Increment to a Column in SQL Server
February 25, 2022Configuring the auto-increment property to a column is a simple SQL command. The complexities come in when trying to deal with either a…
How to Create a SQL Server Index
February 21, 2022Adding indexes to your SQL Server tables is something that you will do plenty of times throughout your career, either as a full-stack…
How to Set the Timezone of an Azure Function App
February 18, 2022By default, the timezone of an Azure Function app is UTC/GMT +0 or Greenwich Mean Time. This is great if that is your timezone or the…
What is a SQL Index?
January 04, 2022What is a SQL Index? In short, a SQL Index is an ordered list of a specific column (or columns) from a SQL table. Suppose you have a table…
How to Make Money as a Developer
December 08, 2021How to Make Money as a Developer If you're an individual who can code, with any level of experience, you are lucky. Your skills are in…
The Complete Guide to HTML Input Types
November 11, 2021The humble HTML input tag is actually an extremely useful and powerful HTML tag. Not only are they used for constructing forms, but they…
How to Calculate the Number of Months Between Two Dates in Javascript
November 05, 2021Manipulating dates in Javascript is an extremely common requirement for a large number of apps and server logic (when using NodeJs). The…
Remove Duplicate Entries From a Javascript Array
November 04, 2021Arrays are one of the most common data structures you will use in Javascript. They create lists for displaying to users that can be simple…
Connecting to a SQL Server Database via NodeJs
November 01, 2021Every full-stack application in production today probably connects to a database of some variety, whether that be a NoSQL database like…
Remove the White Screen Before the Splash Screen in a Flutter App
October 21, 2021Why is there a white screen before the splash? By default, iOS and Android show a native loading screen before the splash screen of a…
HTTP Methods Explained for Frontend Developers
September 23, 2021Frontend developers will inevitably need to make HTTP requests frequently when building out the client-side of a full-stack app. Having a…
How to use Environment Variables in NodeJs with Express and Dotenv
September 22, 2021NodeJs Environment Variables Environment variables in NodeJs are essential for setting configuration options as well as storing important…
How to Setup Scheduled Functions with NodeJs, Express and Node-Cron
September 21, 2021Create a NodeJs application - npm init - npm i express Setup the express server - Create the app.js file (or server.js is you prefer) Add…
How to calculate the number of days between two dates in javascript?
September 20, 2021Date manipulation and calculations are core to a huge amount of enterprise business logic. Being a wizard at using dates and turning them…
How to Use Environment Variables in An Angular App
September 05, 2021Environment variables in an Angular app are extremely useful for storing constants in your app that need to be used frequently, such as API…
API Versioning with NodeJs and Express
August 30, 2021Why do we need API Versioning? For a simple API, being able to create separate versions may not be necessary. However, for larger API's with…
HTTP Interceptors in a Create-React-App with Axios
August 30, 2021Create a React App The first thing we'll need to add HTTP interceptors to is an app... Using the instruction on the Create-React-App site…
Adding Sign-in with Apple to Ionic Capacitor Apps with Firebase
August 23, 2021Setup the Firebase Project If you are new to Firebase then you'll need to sign up (it's free!), otherwise head over to the Firebase…
Adding Custom HTTP Headers to an Azure Function Response in Nodejs
August 18, 2021I'm building a Functions app API for a project at work. This API needs to communicate with another product's API and so is moving OAuth…
How to setup an Angular HTTP Interceptor
August 16, 2021What is an HTTP Interceptor? Every HTTP transaction that occurs between the client and server of web applications has a request and a…
SQL Server Insert or Update Query with T-SQL & Merge
July 31, 2021Need to run a SQL command that will either update an existing row of data in a table or insert a new one if the data doesn't exist? It's a…
Best Indie Fullstack Developer Tools
July 18, 2021Developing, programming, coding, scripting, whatever you call it, is difficult. It's a fact. Luckily, there are a plethora of tools we can…
Setting iOS App to Portrait Only for iPads
July 17, 2021A quick tip here for new-to-XCode iOS developers. If you want your iOS app to only display in portrait (or landscape) modes to users when…
Sorting an Array of JavaScript Objects in a Specific Order
July 17, 2021Sorting an array of objects in javascript is simple enough using the default sort() function for all arrays: And it is trivial enough to…
Creating a Realtime Chat with NodeJs, Express and Socket.io
July 14, 2021A few years ago I was tasked with building a mobile app (which happened to be my first). Part of this app's requirements was to have private…
Why I use Microsoft Azure
July 14, 2021I didn't choose to get a Microsoft Azure account. I didn't review the options. I had a Microsoft account and a virtual machine set up for me…
Adding Rollbar Error Tracking to Ionic + Angular
July 14, 2021Rollbar is a real-time cloud error logging service that has SDKs for a wide variety of languages, frameworks, and platforms. Rollbar…
Integrating Firebase with Ionic + Angular
July 14, 2021Firebase provides a wide variety of modules that are highly useful for mobile & web apps, particularly Authentication, Firestore DocumentDB…
Returning JSON objects from an Azure Function in Node.js & Typescript
July 13, 2021By default, a new Javascript/Typescript function created in an Azure functions app stringifies any data the function returns in the context…