Captain Danko’s JavaScript Lab — Code Smarter with Tutorials, Frameworks & Dev Insights

Coming from a relational database background, working with a NoSql database was interesting. It requires a slightly different way of thinking about how you store your data. More specifically, I felt that was when I was building our new hybrid app with Ionic framework and Firebase/Firestore database. Some of the features of our (my) new app were user authentication and everything the user creates in the app will be saved to the user’s credentials. Sounds simple huh? Actually, if I read that, it sounds super simple to me too, however when building the app, all the tutorials I found online on Ionic, Firebase/Firestore and AngularFire, didn’t quite explain what I wanted. So, in this post, I will be showing you the logic in an Ionic/Firebase app where, the user can signup/login make (save) notes by the userid how to retrieve all the notes saved by that user In addition to the above, almost all of the Ionic tutorials I have seen online don’t provide code samples that support their ...

Analytics is one of the ways in which you can know how users use your app and I think it’s very important to know how users use your app. It’s one of the things that we (or I) use at My Day To-Do (MDT) to encourage usage of certain features. What do I mean? I have written in the past that about my Software engineering background and as such my UI/UX skills are not the best. So the first think I think about when users don’t use certain features of my app is probably because they don’t know about it. Hence to compensate for that, I monitor how the app is used, so I know if the users aren’t using the features I think they should, I will add visual cues in the app to make the feature obvious for them. In almost all of the apps that I have developed at My Day To-Do, I have used Firebase Analytics to monitor app usage. In this post, I will just be talking about how to setup an iOS app with Firebase, provide some sample analytics code of the  Github repo  that I made for this ...