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). […]
Creating a Vagrant Box for Strongloop Development with Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) So I’m working on a mobile app development project which is using Loopback for REST API generation. I wanted to set up a Vagrant box with the following attributes: Use VirtualBox Ubuntu Server 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) x64 Latest NodeJs (currently 6.11.3) Strongloop (npm package that installs CLI for working with loopback) This wasn’t as straightforward […]
