Setting up an API Testing Server with Ubuntu 16.04, Vagrant, VirtualBox, NodeJs and FeathersJs Recently, I’ve been using Feathers to generate REST and realtime data APIs for my Angular(2+) and Ionic(2+) apps. During development, it’s useful to have a local virtual machine that’s running the API. It’s pretty straightforward to swap out the live URL for the API server with the local dev API URL so that I don’t […]
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 […]
