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VVue SPA with Rails JSON:API using Graphiti

12/05/2018 — 3 Min Read — In Rails, JSON Api, Vue, REST

Standards are good, they make our lives easier. Graphiti and it's client library Spraypaint make it easy to build JSON:API compliant APIs that integrate seamlessly with front-end frameworks like…

BBuilding Gmail/Chrome Extension with Vue.js and InboxSDK

11/29/2018 — 2 Min Read — In Vue, Chrome, Gmail, InboxSDK

Also on Dev.to . We’re going to create a small Chrome extension that uses InboxSDK and Pipl to let you search email addresses for user information right in our Gmail. You can change this demo to…

RReact Components In Lucky With Laravel Mix and lucky-react

07/30/2018 — 3 Min Read — In React, Lucky, Crystal, Laravel

I just started learning React after 2 years of Angular and Vue. I'm surprised at how fun React is to use and how amazing the community and supporting packages are. I'm also a huge fan of Crystal and…

UUploading and Validating Images with Crystal and Lucky on Heroku

07/29/2018 — 6 Min Read — In Images, Lucky, Crystal, Heroku

Today we're going to be uploading images with Lucky and crystal! To demo this I'm going to make an app that allows uploading images to a gallery that is tied to your ip address. Since we're going to…

UUsing Materialized Views as Models in Lucky

07/27/2018 — 2 Min Read — In Lucky, Crystal, SQL

I've got an app with over 2 million rows in a Postgresql database and I make complex queries with joins, unions and aggregate functions that take a lot of time. The results of some of these queries…

MMapping Database Queries to Crystal Classes With crystal-db and Lucky

07/26/2018 — 2 Min Read — In Lucky, Crystal, SQL

Sometimes we need to get a couple columns from our database, or make complex queries and return many columns that don't fit into our models. In these cases we want the framework we use to be flexible…

DDeploying Angular and Lucky Monorepo Using Netlify and Heroku

07/12/2018 — 2 Min Read — In Angular, Lucky, Netflix, Heroku, Monorepo

I like to keep my client and server together because it makes me more efficient by allowing me to open both apps in a single VS Code workspace. The difficulty comes when deploying the apps separately…

JJWT Auth in Lucky Api

07/08/2018 — 4 Min Read — In Jwt, Auth, Lucky, Crystal

Although Lucky is fantastic for building complete applications, I like to build my front-end in Angular so I usually use Lucky as a JSON Api. I prefer it over Rails Api because of the type checking…

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