9lessons Programming Blog

In this post, I will explain the steps to deploy a simple PHP email MX record validation application on AWS lambda function using Bref layers. AWS Lambda natively supports Java, Go, PowerShell, Node. js, C#, Python, and Ruby code, not PHP. You can deploy the lite weight PHP function to improve the application performance and it will reduce cost compared with the EC2 instance. AWS is offering the first one million requests free and you need an AWS account with a payment setup. The only disadvantage is that port 25(mail/SMTP) will not support it.

Pocketbase is an open-source application and alternative to Google Firebase. This is offering realtime database, authentication(including social), and file storage for your next web and mobile application. This article is about how to host the Pocketbase application server which usually runs at 8090 port with your existing application server. If you are using Linux and Apache based server, the following steps will help you to virtual host different ports host to the default 80 port.

This is continues of my previous post about how to remove unused CSS and convert unclear JavaScript to protect your source code in the post-build process. If you are using CSS libraries like Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS, etc.. and sometimes multiple frameworks. But your application components are not using all of the styles and it adds more weight to the application performance. This post will explain how to configure the React post-build process to remove unused CSS and hidden JavaScript files that enhance the application security and definitely improve the app loading time and save the overall bandwidth cost.

Nowadays most applications are developed based on large CSS libraries like Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS, etc.. and sometimes multiple frameworks. But your application components are not using all of the styles and it adds more weight to the application performance. This post will explain the Angular post-build process to remove unused CSS and hidden JavaScript files that enhance the application security and definitely improve the app loading time and save the overall bandwidth cost.

The Raspberry Pi is a low cost device and it consumes low power. It can be used as a web server with your home internet and you will have complete freedom to implement ideas. Nowadays popular cloud services are costing high for the same specifications and recently banned some websites for showing some legal terms. This post will guide you how to configure and host a website on your home Raspberry Pi device with AT&T home network. All of my web applications hosted on my home server Raspberry Pi 8GB with external SSD, I usally costs under $99.

UI automation is the most important part of the CI/CD(continuous integration and continuous delivery) process. Integration testing helps you to avoid manual regression testing and improve the application quality. In this post I will explain how to implement UI automation testing to existing Angular projects using the Cypress tool, this is a great alternative for Protractor. Take a look at the video tutorials for better understanding.

Nowadays most of my side projects are managed with Github. It has more advantages and flexibility to manage file versions. I am following a different webhook system to automatically deploy my old PHP projects. Not sure about the standards, but the following solution is an alternative approach that may solve your deployment problem for every Github push.

Few days back one of my friend's project database credentials got exposed. After some investigation, we realized that it is because of the .git config commit. I would recommend configuring your sensitive credentials with operating system environment variables. This way you can protect information from the code base. This post will explain how to set up an environment variable for an Apache web server.

Recently I have been working with Raspberry PI and creating my own home server to host some of my demo projects. This post is about setting up SSH authentication with a PEM certificate file without password on ubuntu/linux server. Implement the following steps and improve the security.

Nowadays Google Firebase is my most favorite application. This is offering great web solutions like hosting, authentication, storage and database in a simple way. This article explains how to upload images(supports video) into Firebase storage with Ionic and Angular applications. This covers the user authentication part to protect storage uploads and improving default Firebase security rules. Take a look at the quick demo and try to upload under 1 mb JPEG or PNG.

Ionic is a great component framework that can build both iOS and Android apps from the same source code using Capacitor. In this video I have explained how to generate a signed Android release APK version using Ionic application and publishing on Google play store. For this process you need a Google play console subscription that costs $25 for life time. Please try to download the 9lessons demo Android app for testing.

Modern web and mobile user experiences is a worldwide thing. Localization of your application (supporting multiple languages) will help you to reach worldwide people. Angular is offering Internationalization(i18n) plugins to enrich your application with multiple languages. In this post I will discuss the implementation with lazy loading design pattern with supporting dynamic content. Take a quick look at the live demo and choose the language.

Developing and hosting your own Angular, React applications has never been easier, but now there are many options like Google Firebase, Heroku and etc. Github Pages is offering some great features with free of cost no credit card required and no bandwidth limitations. Just create a public repository and commit all of your product ready files. It has a custom domain support with HTTPs enforcement.

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Few days back I posted an article about how to implement restful apis using the Node Express and MySql. In this post I am going to discuss deploying NodeJS RESTful apis with Express framework to the Firebase functions. This is helpful when you deal with external endpoints which need secret keys. Google Firebase functions as an alternate product for Amazon Lambda, and Google Firebase is offering Storage and Real-time databases.

Are you interested to create and publish NPM packages/libraries to enrich Angular functionality? Take a quick look at this post. You can share solutions with other developers. A simple package can solve many problems and resolve the issue quickly. If you are working with multiple applications? Package approach will help you to solve the components problems easily. In this post I have created the Bootstrap confirm functionality package with control options and published it on NPM repository for global use.

Node Express web framework is a best solution to create RESTful APIs in quick time. Previously we published some concepts with different technologies like PHP and Java. This article will explain to you a more simple way to use external plugins to enrich your project APIs. Here you will find to create GET and POST requests with request payload validations to protect the endpoints.

This article is more about understanding the Event Emitters in Angular and Ionic. Data flow is the most important when you build an application to communicate with components. Event Emitters will help you to even bind using @Input @Output decorators. Here is a simple example to display and update the user profile using Angular Event Emitters. For this demo I choose Ionic framework for better experience. Take a quick look at the live demo.

This post is about displaying the API records with delete and update actions using new Ionic and Angular reactive programming. This is a continuation of Ionic Angular series and it explains to you how to distribute the data between the components using RxJS method like BehaviorSubject. All of the feed API responses/records storing in a reactive object, This help the application DOM works seamlessly with update and delete operations. Implement this to your side project and enrich your applications.

This is a continuation of my previous article creating an Ionic Angular project with welcome and tabs home page. Today’s post explains how to implement login authentication system for your Ionic Angular application with guards and resolvers. It will show you how to log in with a user and store the user data and protect the routes, so it deals with token-based authentication. Every user details will be stored in an external database and a PHP based API is used in the backend for handling this authentication.

As I promised to continue the Angular/Ionic project series, as a developer perspective mock server is the most important to progress the development. We should not depend on the production or development API for front-end development. This post is about creating a simple Node Express server with mock JSON object files. You can import the project to any of the front-end applications like Angular, React, Ionic and VueJS projects.

I received lots of tutorial requests from my readers in that most of them asked me, how to use Ionic 5 to create a welcome page with login and signup pages. Ionic updated there code base with latest Angular 8 features. Now we can implement the routes and guards pretty easy way. Ionic is recommending to use Capacitor to generate iOS and Android. This post will explain to you how to design an Ionic project structure with social project related pages like messages, feed, notifications, etc. Finally converting this web Ionic project to iOS and Android applications.

Microsoft Azure is another great alternate cloud service and it is offering a one-year free trial with $200 credit. This post is almost similar to my previous Cloud service article. This will explain to you how to set up a virtual machine instance with secure firewall rules and setting up a XAMPP(PHP Maria DB Server) using the Ubuntu operating system. Microsoft Azure has lots of free project management services. This is very useful for your side projects.

Google cloud platform is a cloud computing service and a perfect alternate for Amazon Webservices. Nowadays most of the top companies are moving towards Google services for better results. Google cloud platform is offering a $300 free trial for one year. This post is about how to set up VM instances with firewall rules in addition to creating a XAMPP server with Ubuntu operation system. This is almost similar to my previous article about the Amazon EC2 setup. Try this and enrich your side projects.

Multi-tenants is an architecture concept that can handle multiple projects in a single project container. If you look at popular sites like Nike.com or Mi.com, you will find out the project redirection based on the continent or country region. This post more about understanding the Angular 8 project package configuration, using this how are we leveraging the project for multi-tenant architecture.