Vuetify3 (Alpha) + Storybook Vuetify 3 alpha has been released! Here’s a tutorial on how to get Storybook working with it.
Configuring Storybook 6 for Vue 2 + Vuetify 2.3 You probably know this story. You go to start a brand new Vue + Vuetify project. You think, Hmmm… I think I’d like to use Storybook to build and test my components in relative isolation. –me, every time I start a new project (BTW, if you don’t know what Storybook is, the 2-ish minute video […]
High Performance Game Streaming Setup I was asked to provide a recommendation for what computer to buy as part of a dedicated game streaming PC setup. “Sure!” I said, not realizing the sheer depth of the rabbit hole I was jumping into. During my exploration, one thing I did NOT find was one article that tried to explain everything to […]
Authorizing Feathers API Requests for Vue/React/Angular Apps Using Auth0 Recently I’ve been building a progressive web app (PWA) using VueJS as the frontend framework, FeathersJS as the backend API, and Auth0 as my authentication-as-a-service provider. Knitting these three components together turned out to be more difficult and time-consuming than I anticipated–not because it is difficult, but because of some fundamental misconceptions I had about […]
Why I Choose FeathersJS as my API Framework of Choice when Working with College Students In my last post I discussed frontend frameworks, and why I choose VueJS when working with my students. In that post, I answered some more abstract questions about whether or not this choice is even important (probably not all that much), and whether or not, as professors, we should even be using frameworks (absolutely, yes). […]
Why I Choose to Use VueJS with my College Students Currently, VueJS is my app development framework of choice when working with college students. As an academic, I am no less susceptible than anyone else to be drawn into debates about which framework, or language, or platform (if any) is “the best” to teach to students. I offer these thoughts so that my students might […]
Building a Collaborative 900-pixel App-Controlled LED Light Show: Part 2 In Part 1 of this series, I introduced this project: I’m building a light show for my office in order to attract people to my office and to offer a creative, motivating outlet for people to learn to code. I spent most of the first post describing the calculations and components necessary to power 900 […]
Creating a Filter Pipe for Angular 2 (in Ionic 2) I’ve been getting into the world of building cross-platform mobile apps using the Ionic 2 Framework with Angular 2 for Typescript. Yesterday I needed to build a view that displayed a list of players that were grouped by the team that they’re on. The final view is shown here on the right. The solution was to […]
Super-fast Secure WordPress Install on DigitalOcean with NGINX, PHP7, and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Updated: 2018-01-01 I’ve recently begun migrating websites from my old web host to DigitalOcean. Today, I’m documenting the steps I use to stand up a new server instance. Some of these technologies are still close to the bleeding edge, so if you’re really worried about stability, you may want to stick with some of the […]
