Xamarin.Forms App Push Notifications with Azure Notification Hubs

Rukesh Shrestha .NET, Articles, Azure, Cloud, Mobile, Tutorial, Xamarin 2 Comments

Push notifications are a vital feature for todayโ€™s enterprise mobile applications. Why are they so important? They allow the business to communicate with its users without requiring the application to be in an open state.

Xamarin.Forms allows developers to create user interfaces in XAML with code behind it in C#, which then renders as native controls on iOS and Android platforms.

In this blog, we go through a step-by-step tutorial for setting up and configuring push notifications on Xamarin.Forms applications using Azure Notification Hubs. Let’s dive right in.

Material UI with React

Placing React in Timeout with Material-UI

Peter Le Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, React, Tutorial Leave a Comment

As your application complexity increases, you may start thinking about implementing a session timeout in instances when there is no activity for a period of time. Whether you want a session timeout to increase your web app securities or to avoid unnecessary automatic API calls, itโ€™s good to have some sort of idle check and log out built into your application.

Azure Web Apps in Docker Containers – Part 1

Joe Sciara Architecture, Articles, Azure, Cloud, Development Technologies & Tools, Docker, Tutorial Leave a Comment

So you want to host a web application on Azure with minimal overhead, but how is this done? Azure makes it possible by running an App Service using Docker containers. Setting up an App Service is simple and can be accomplished with a few steps.

In this blog, Iโ€™ll explain the steps necessary to generate a Docker image in Azure. Then, we will deploy a web application based on an image we generate. We host the application with the following steps:
1. Create a Container Registry
2. Build a Docker image
3. Create a Web App

Mock RESTful Server Fast with JSON Server

Mock RESTful Servers Fast With JSON Server

Haaris Chaudhry Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Tutorial 2 Comments

As a frontend developer, have you ever found yourself in a situation where the backend didnโ€™t have a RESTful API that you could call to test out your user interface? Have you ever wanted to prototype an idea and found yourself getting down in the weeds setting up RESTful routes in a mock backend server?

Thatโ€™s where json-server comes to the rescue!

With json-server, you simply create a JSON file that follows json-serverโ€™s conventions, and you can have a mock RESTful server up in no time. This blog post will go over the features of json-server that I have found most useful as a frontend developer.

The Extras of React

React, The Extras.

Chris Berry Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, JavaScript, React, Tutorial 1 Comment

Weโ€™ve all seen and read the React tutorials. We know about classes and components and JSX and whatnot, but then there comes the time when you have to start doing things for real. โ€œRealโ€ you say? Yes. Like connecting to a database or navigating around something larger than โ€œHello World.โ€ Oh, then there’s that dreaded state thing. Well, letโ€™s have a quick talk about the โ€œExtrasโ€ that we can add into a React application.

In this blog, we will address adding routing using the React Router, adding data access using the JavaScript Fetch API, and creating a global state management feature using Reactโ€™s built-in Context API.