So, you want to develop a new website with spiffy apps on Android and iOS, and you want that website and your APIs to run in Node Express. It sounds like a lot of work to write the website in React (or Flutter or whatever the language de jour is), the Android app with Android Studio, and the iOS app with Xcode…
Navigating GCP IAP: Local and Deployed Development with .NET and React
I’m currently working on several cloud-native projects hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that use .NET for the API and React for the UI. These projects rely on GCP’s Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) to handle authentication, which occurs before any requests reach the Application Load Balancer or the application itself.
While GCP’s IAP offers robust security benefits, configuring a .NET and React application to work seamlessly with it—both locally during development and when deployed to a Cloud Run instance as a Docker container—proved to be more challenging than I expected. The available documentation and resources for this setup are sparse and often fragmented, making it difficult to piece together a clear solution.
This blog post is my way of sharing the lessons I’ve learned along the way. By outlining the steps and solutions that worked for me, I hope to save others from the trial and error I experienced and provide a clearer path for integrating GCP IAP with .NET and React applications.
Taking React Development to the Next.js Level
In today’s fast-paced web development world, Next.js is one framework that’s becoming popular among developers. It’s a powerful React-based solution that offers a lot more than just a traditional React and Node.js setup. What makes it so great? Let’s take a closer look.
Optimize Frontend Deployments with Module Federation
It’s time to release your latest front-end changes to production. However, as you create a new tag, you notice a large number of commits unrelated to the feature you’ve been working on. Now, instead of simply kicking off your deployment and watching the pipeline run, you need to check with numerous developers and managers to ensure you don’t deploy any …
Using RegEx in VSCode For Powerful Searching
This post demonstrates some of my favorite search techniques that work well in VSCode, including some basic RegEx (Regular Expressions) expressions that will help you find exactly what you’re looking for in an unfamiliar code base. We will cover VSCode file type inclusions and exclusions, single-line multi-term searching, conditional searching, and more. RegEx can be intimidating to people who aren’t used to using it, but luckily the RegEx expressions described in this post are very easy to remember and incredibly powerful.