Every now and again you come across one of those tasks as a coder that should take 2 seconds of your time and yet somehow manages to take half a day. Trying to change the Material UI Appbar color was one of those today. The answer though, as ever, is very simple, but finding the … Read more
I had to build a website recently that used react-bootstrap and had a page which showed a collection of items in a grid, with each item being shown in it’s own <Card />. The documentation wasn’t as comprehensive as I’d have liked for this specific use case and I found a lot of other people … Read more
If you are coding in C# then you can be pretty certain at some point you’ll need to use a C# List. This post will teach you how to initialize a C# list, how to add, and insert an item to a C# List, and also how to add a List to another List using … Read more
I hadn’t had to set logging up for a while in any .Net project and then I was faced with a .NET core API project and a requirement for logging both locally and in an Azure deployment environment. .Net core has built in support for logging, but be aware that it does not support logging … Read more
I’ve been building an ASP net core web API recently using .Net Core, and whilst I built my object model class quite quickly, as I was developing the endpoints for both create (POST) and update (PATCH) I could see a conflict relating to required fields. I wanted to know how to build the model class … Read more
I started to look at the WordPress Api recently and decided to put together a small React JS web app that would enable me to show my blog data in a custom front end. To start with I have focused on getting a a list of posts, and related categories. By following this post, an … Read more
The way our team manage git branches is to create a new feature branch at the remote end, then we do a git pull and switch to the new feature branch locally. Next we do our development work, commit and push those changes. Finally we merge the reviewed code into a central remote branch. All … Read more
It’s such a strange name…. before you read any further, I’m presuming that you know what git is. So you know what the ‘git’ bit of the name stands for, but how about ‘bash’? Bash is an acronym for Bourne Again Shell. Huh? What’s a shell?! A shell is a terminal application that enables you to run … Read more
So many projects require that you use data from an API, so here is a React JS example of how to do just that. I’ll cover how to use fetch to interact with the API, how to get data from the API, and how to use .env files to securely store environment specific properties. I … Read more
I need to test a .Net core project as if it was deployed to production, so in order to do that I need to set the environment variable to production. According to the docs you should be able to that by typing this at the cmd prompt: set ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT=Productiondotnet run –no-launch-profile However on doing so … Read more