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June 29, 2020

Tutorial Part 2: How to Build a Progressive Selfies Web App with JavaScript

If you're looking to build a powerful PWA that takes advantage of the hardware on a device, things are only going to get better. In my previous post, I explained the fundamental concepts of PWA. In this article, I will discuss some PWA features that provide access to your hardware APIs:

Media Capture API, to take a picture (in this article called a "selfie") with your camera. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=Media_Streams_API
Geolocation API, to determine the location of your selfie. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation_API
and the commonly used Background Sync API, to put the selfies in a queue or database in the meantime, so that the user can also send a selfie to the server if it is not connected. https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/12/background-sync

Requirements

To start with this tutorial you must install the following:

July 12, 2019

Twelve-Factor Apps: A Retrospective and Look Forward

If your team is creating apps for the cloud, chances are the Twelve-Factor App methodology has influenced the frameworks and platforms you’re using. Popular frameworks such as Spring Boot, Magento, and more credit the twelve factors as part of their design. Leading companies such as Heroku, Amazon, and Microsoft use and recommend the methodology. While new frameworks and methodologies are released every month, few have the far-reaching impact of this one.

Let's take a look at what these factors are all about, the story behind the creation of this methodology seven years ago, and why they are just as important today.

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