As a “good” developer you know not to repeat code in your projects. To accomplish this I typically create utility functions that I can easily call throughout my project. This article explains how I structure my utility functions such that new functions are immediately available without the additional export/import steps…

How to create different environments for testing, staging, and production — You finally bought that course on Udemy to learn Firebase. After all, the price dropped to $11.99! Ok, maybe it was a free YouTube tutorial. Whatever it was, I’ll assume you now understand how to use Firebase services like Hosting, Authentication, Firestore, Functions, and Storage. …

Overview A couple of years ago I would have loved to find this article. It would have saved me countless hours and days struggling to find the right tech stack. There are many options these days for building and hosting your application. …

As usual, I’m writing this story because this topic has given me problems on more than one occasion. How many times have you been iterating through an array and want to do something with the current element only if it meets some criteria? All the time, right? I’m not new…

I’ve been using Cloud Firestore as my primary database for months now and have been very happy with it. Cloud Firestore is a flexible, scalable database for mobile, web, and server development from Firebase and Google Cloud Platform. Like Firebase Realtime Database, it keeps your data in sync across client…

Define form fields once, as schema, and render them anywhere! How much code does it take for you to render all forms in your application? Do you find yourself adding the same fields to multiple forms? …

Spare yourself the pain and suffering by following my journey (and solution) for adding recurring events to your application. — My project has a requirement to allow users to set reminders. Reminders can be a one-time or recurring event for any given subject. One-time events are simple enough but once I started thinking about recurring events I realized it can get complicated real fast. 😕 “I need to set a…

Spare yourself the pain and suffering by following my journey (and solution) for adding Google Maps to your application. — I’ve been working on a large project for months now. I have a list of tasks and try to work through them bit by bit. This week I got down to the “Add Google Maps” task. I had always assumed this was going to be a relatively simple task to…