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In this post, I will be talking about my latest Github repository  IonicAppWithRestBackend  and delve into details about what it is and the problem it aims to solve. Introduction The idea of this repo is to provide code samples for both the backend and front-end for an   Ionic app   that communicates with a   REST ful backend. The aim is to bring many disparate aspects of building a solution like this(hybrid app that talks to a REST backend) and to be able to see most of them as one complete solution. Also, a solution such as this ensures you can test your Ionic app locally during development. Still not clear? read on to find out what I mean. Motivation In 2014, I started working on a project with someone which involved building a mobile app that fetches/sends data to a REST backend. My associate did not have a very technical background…I mean she knew a lot more than people from her academic background would but she wasn’t a programmer. Therefore I wa...

In this post I will briefly talk about my solution to building a Django app which has an AngularJS front-end. This wasn't a major problem as such, but it did cost me some extra time when I tried to get it done, so naturally on solving this issue I felt that I should help the next programmer facing such as issue. Therefore I created a Github repo i.e. a sample project that can help anyone get started on something like this. Background I have a background in building Java web apps , I mean almost 70-80% code that I wrote for my previous jobs was in Java . So building a Java web app with an AngularJS front-end was something I knew how to do but I had a few minor hurdles when I wanted to achieve the same with a Python/Django backend. When I started working on solving this problem, I thought to myself "I wish there was a simple sample project which showed all aspects of this sort of application and how it all comes together"... and since I couldn't find a sam...

I love writing code and during my undergraduate studies I had a chance to write code in many programming languages and while I enjoyed working with all of them, there was one language that I fell in love with. I call it first love and thankfully I had a chance to code in that language for most of my career after I finished uni. I worked with it for years and years, it would be my language of choice for any new project...until recently. In the last 12 months, certain (almost unavoidable) circumstances lead me to a choice which meant, I had a part ways with my first love for this particular project. In this post I will talk about what my first love was, the circumstances that made me part ways with it and what did I use instead of it. My First love During my undergraduate studies and when I was learning about programming, I was exposed to C++ , Java and C . I did not mind C so much, C++ I did not like it at the time and I loved working with Java. Yes yes, I know it's very ver...

In this post, I will continue from where we left in Part 1 of this series.  In part 2, I will talk more about the front-end side of things. Ahh, I have a background in web development, hence I call this front-end, but that's not the most accurate thing to say in these modern times. So the right way to say this is, I will talk about the Ionic app in this Github repository(IonicAppWithRestBackend) in more details in this post. So what did we do in part 1? In part 1, we got to the point of running our backend on the web server that ships with Django . To refresh your memory, this is how we got the backend server running, Clone the repo git clone https://github.com/cptdanko/IonicAppWithRestBackend Navigate to the backend project directory cd IonicAppWithRestBackend/backend/python_django/restBackend/ Note: if you are using Windows, you may want to change "/" to "\" in the above command. Once there you can run the backend server with the follow...

In this post, I will be talking about my latest Github repository(repo);  IonicAppWithRestBackend  and delve into details about what it is and the problem it aims to solve. Introduction The idea of this repo is to provide code samples for both the backend and front-end for an Ionic app that communicates with a REST ful backend. The aim is to bring many disparate aspects of building a solution like this(hybrid app that talks to a REST backend) and to be able to see most of them as one complete solution. Also, a solution such as this ensures you can test your Ionic app locally during development. Still not clear? read on to find out what I mean. Note: Once I started writing this post, I realised that it would be a really long blog post, so I decided to split it into individual parts in hopes that it's an easier read. In part 1, I will be talking about what the backend solution is and how to get it running. Motivation In 2014, I started working on a project with someon...