Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from March, 2025

5 DevOps GitHub Actions: Automate Your App & Boost Productivity

Introduction Boost your software project's productivity with automation! This blog post, inspired by a Fireship.io YouTube tutorial, explores five ways to leverage GitHub Actions to streamline your workflow and enhance code quality. We'll cover Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD), automated releases, and more, transforming your development process with DevOps best practices. What are GitHub Actions? GitHub Actions automates workflows within your GitHub repository. Any event – a pull request, a push to a branch, or even a new repository – can trigger an automated workflow. These workflows run in cloud-based containers, executing a series of steps you define. Instead of writing every step from scratch, you can utilize hundreds of pre-built "actions" contributed by the community...
Post a Comment
Read more

Realtime Data Visualization: Plotly, Firebase & Angular Charts Tutorial

Introduction In today's data-driven world, visualizing information in real-time is crucial for many applications. This blog post will guide you through combining the power of PlotlyJS, Angular, and Firebase to create dynamic charts that respond to live data. We'll explore building a basic 2D line chart, a 3D topographical chart, and a ternary chart that stays synchronized with a real-time Firebase backend. 1. Setting Up PlotlyJS The first step is to integrate PlotlyJS into your Angular project. Install the library using npm: npm install plotly.js --save Next, include PlotlyJS in the scripts section of your angular.json (formerly angular-cli.json ) file. Keep in mind that Plotly is a large library. To reduce your bundle size, consider importing only the specific modules you need from the node_modules directory. Finally, add the Plotly class to your typings.d.ts file to ensure TypeScript recognizes it...
Post a Comment
Read more

Flutter Firebase Data Mastery: Provider for Complex App Flows

Introduction Managing data flow in interactive Flutter apps with Firebase can be challenging. State management is a hot topic, and while both Flutter and Firebase offer excellent tools for working with reactive, real-time data, simplifying complex data flows is key. This blog post will explore patterns for apps with intricate data needs using Firebase Auth and Firestore, focusing on how the Provider library can dramatically reduce code complexity. The Challenges of Firebase Data Management in Flutter Firebase exposes streams for both user authentication and Firestore data, which presents several challenges. One particularly painful approach is manually managing these streams within stateful widgets. This involves: Significant boilerplate code to set up the stateful widget. Managing stream subscriptions and data properties. Using setState to update the UI whenever a new value i...
Post a Comment
Read more

Build Your Uber Clone: Flutter Google Maps & Firestore Geolocation Tutorial

Introduction Real-time geolocation is a core feature of many successful apps, and in this tutorial, we'll explore how to build some of the fundamental components using Flutter, Google Maps, and Firestore. Inspired by apps like Uber, we'll dive into device GPS tracking, real-time geolocation queries, and reactive UI updates, all within a relatively small codebase. Get ready to leverage the power of FlutterFire and the GeoFlutterFire library to create location-aware applications! Setting Up Your Flutter Project Before diving into the code, you'll need to set up your Flutter environment and configure Firebase. This involves installing FlutterFire and creating a Firebase project. Remember to enable the Google Maps API for your GCP project to obtain an API key. Once you have your API key, incorporate it into your Flutter project for both Android and iOS platforms. Dependencies Make sure you h...
Post a Comment
Read more