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OS Environment variables with Angular 7 and Custom Webpack

By Carbon Rider in Angular, Articles March 11, 2019 0 Comment

For a long time, server-side development enjoyed a rich set of Toolkits for development, build and deployment. One of the most convenient features is the ability to externalize configuration from the actual source code. API URL, secrets, threshold limits etc can be configured outside the actual code and exposed via Operating system’s environment variables. This promotes a good practice of immutable build packages. These builds can be promoted without a need to make modification in the actual code to adapt to a changing environment.

Develop Counter component with Angular 7 and RxJS

By Carbon Rider in Angular, Articles February 2, 2019 0 Comment

The strong benefit of using Angular framework is the emphasis on component driven development and thereby promoting reusability. On the other hand with the help of RxJS the complex tasks can be easily achieved. The fact that RxJS heavily uses chained API approach helps to mix and match it’s APIs to achieve complex functionality.

Material Theme with Angular 7 – Change primary and accent color

By Carbon Rider in Angular, Articles January 30, 2019 0 Comment

One of the strongest feature of Angular Framework lies in the structured approach for application development. Directives, components, modules, services, styles etc promote reusable component development. On top of that, with the Theme driven development, it is possible to customize the application appearance – Material Design. This indicates a strong architecture concept of segregating application behavior from the appearance.

Keycloak – Role assignment using Script

By Carbon Rider in Articles January 10, 2019 0 Comment

Keycloak is an Open Source software built by Jboss. It is primarily targetted towards Identity and Access Management(IAM) solution. It takes away all the complexities of managing authorization and authentication. Keycloak comes with rich capabilities to configure security for a multi-tenant application, user management, groups, integration with identity providers like LinkedIn, Google, Microsoft etc.

Authentication and Authorization is a repetitive requirement and one of the most important aspect of every Enterprise application. The intuitive interface of Keycloak combined with strong customization experience, takes away all the difficulties. A rich set of community contributions is also available to integrate Keycloak with Spring, Angular, JavaScript, NodeJS etc.

UI architect – What does that mean?

By Carbon Rider in Articles January 3, 2019 0 Comment

UI Architect required – The job opening caught my attention. I was a bit curious to understand what UI Architect really means and what they do? I know Solution Architect, Technical Architect, Principal Architect, but UI Architect was a very new term to me.

For most of the people, UI is restricted to HTML, CSS, few designing tools, graphics, and animation. It feels like with few colors, fonts, and pictures are all required to define perfect User Interface. We now have buzzwords like UX (User Experience), UI Designer etc. but then why this new role is required?

Folder operations on Google Drive with Spring Boot

By Carbon Rider in Articles November 27, 2018 0 Comment

Folder provides a simple and efficient approach to organize files. Along with file management, Google Drive provides an option to create folders. Unlike traditional folder system, with Google Drive you can store one file under multiple folders. In the previous article, we have already seen how to work with files. This article will help you understand the basics of Folder API.

File operation in Google Drive API with Spring Boot

By Carbon Rider in Articles November 25, 2018 0 Comment

A file is an efficient option to organize related data. With the nature of today’s industry, it becomes necessary to make these files available anytime, anywhere. With Google drive, one can easily share files with others. Unlike past, wherein a separate hardware like an external drive, USB pen drive, Compact Disk etc., was required to transport data. On contrary, web-hosted storage solutions like Google Drive provide lot more convenience. Because File storage is its fundamental feature, it also provides options to secure it from an unauthorized access.

Google Drive API integration with Spring Boot

By Carbon Rider in Articles October 8, 2018 0 Comment

We configured a project in Google Developer console and also configured OAuth credentials for a user consent. This brings us to the next step of integrating Google Drive API dependencies. The integration steps are pretty easy. Once you know the latest API versions from repositories like https://mvnrepository.com, you can easily proceed.

Typescript, JQuery and Browserify

By Carbon Rider in Articles, Javascript September 27, 2018 0 Comment

So far we have seen how to develop simple web page using Typescript. To develop a big website, you must use libraries like JQuery, Backbone etc. These libraries help reduce the time required to develop some of the common requirements. But as we have seen, while importing references from other files, we use import statement in Typescript. This effectively gets translated into a call to require function. Unfortunately, require function is not built-in feature of browsers. Consider below example

Google Developer console project setup and OAuth

By Carbon Rider in Articles September 11, 2018 0 Comment

Before we start experimenting with Google Drive APIs, it is necessary to create a project in the Google Developer Console. The Drive APIs require configuration of secret keys, authentication mechanism like OAuth or Service account etc. to ensure only authorized systems are allowed to invoke API.