Dexie.js live queries
Published: January 22, 2022 • javascript, database, ionic
In this blog post, I will show you an example of the new live query feature in Dexie.js 3.2 that enables an application to subscribe to IndexedDB queries.
Published: January 22, 2022 • javascript, database, ionic
In this blog post, I will show you an example of the new live query feature in Dexie.js 3.2 that enables an application to subscribe to IndexedDB queries.
Published: May 17, 2020 • javascript, angular
How to create an Angular application from scratch with the Nebular component library.
Published: May 03, 2020 • Updated: May 20, 2021 • javascript, spring, java, ionic
In this blog post, I show you how to create an encrypted Java/JavaScript chat application with the Web Cryptography API.
Published: May 02, 2020 • Updated: October 31, 2021 • javascript, java
In this tutorial, I show you how to develop a web application that presents your holiday photos on Google Maps
Published: May 01, 2020 • Updated: May 20, 2021 • javascript, java, ionic, angular
This blog post shows you how to integrate hCaptcha CAPTCHAs into a plain JavaScript project and Angular projects, with a Spring Boot back end.
Published: April 24, 2020 • Updated: May 20, 2021 • javascript, spring, java
In this blog post, I show you how to build a chat application with Cettia and Google Cloud Translation that automatically translates chat messages.
Published: April 23, 2020 • Updated: May 20, 2021 • javascript, spring, java
In this blog post, I show you how to build a simple chat application with a JavaScript front- and a Java backend.
Published: April 21, 2020 • Updated: May 21, 2021 • javascript, angular
In this blog post, we take a look at the YouTube Player and Google Maps component from the angular/component repository.
Published: April 10, 2020 • Updated: May 20, 2021 • javascript
In this blog post, we take a closer look at the webSocket function from the RxJS library, a wrapper around the native WebSocket object.
Published: April 04, 2020 • Updated: May 20, 2021 • javascript, java
In this blog post, we are going to take a look at how to sends Protocol Buffers messages from an Angular app to a Spring Boot back end.
Published: April 03, 2020 • Updated: June 20, 2021 • ionic, spring, javascript, capacitor, java
In this blog post we take a closer look at how to receive push notifications with Capacitor and how to send them from a Spring Boot application
Published: August 25, 2019 • javascript, java, spring, ionic
In this blog post, we will build a password-less authentication system with the FIDO2 WebAuthn standard. I will show you a full-stack demo application with an Ionic / Angular front end and a Spring Boot back end with Spring Security.
Published: August 13, 2019 • java, javascript
Sending Web Push notifications from a Java back end to a web browser
Published: August 10, 2019 • javascript
A closer look at ky, a JavaScript HTTP client for the browser, built on top of the Fetch API. ky adds convenient functions and new features to the Fetch API.
Published: July 31, 2019 • javascript
In this blog post, we are looking at the Web Workers API. What problem it solves, and how can we use it in our JavaScript applications. We take a look at the Angular build-time support for Web Workers, and lastly, we take a look at Comlink, a JavaScript library that simplifies Web Workers programming.
Published: July 30, 2019 • Updated: December 30, 2019 • javascript
In this blog post, we will develop an Angular/Ionic application that runs Optical character recognition (OCR) in a browser with Tesseract.js. This application does not depend on any server-side code, and the recognition process runs locally in the browser.
Published: July 29, 2019 • javascript
What is the Page Visibility API and how can you access it in web applications. Also, a quick look at the visibilityjs library that simplifies commons tasks with the Page Visibility API.
Published: June 13, 2019 • java, javascript, spring, ionic
How to create a frictionless password auto-login experience with the Credential Management API.
Published: June 12, 2019 • java, spring, javascript
How to expose build information, like version number, build timestamp, git commit information, of Spring Boot and Angular applications
Published: June 11, 2019 • java, spring, javascript, ionic, capacitor
How to take pictures with the Capacitor camera plugin and upload them to a Spring Boot application with Angular's HttpClient and tus.io.
Published: June 11, 2019 • java, javascript, spring, ionic
How to integrate tus.io implementations into JavaScript and Java applications to create reliable and resumable file uploads over HTTP.
Published: June 10, 2019 • javascript, ionic
A tutorial on how to use Google Fonts in an Angular / Ionic app. The blog post presents two approaches. One approach is by linking to the Google Font server, and the second approach shows you how to download Google Fonts and serve them from your web server.
Published: February 15, 2019 • Updated: August 21, 2019 • javascript, ionic
This blog post shows you how to integrate FontAwesome icons into an Angular application with the official Angular JavaScript library
Published: January 28, 2019 • java, javascript, spring
Getting started with Cettia, a real-time web framework, and Spring Boot
Published: January 19, 2019 • javascript
A collection of examples with the spread and rest syntax in JavaScript
Published: January 04, 2019 • javascript, java
How to JSON deserialize and serialize the new JavaScript primitive number type BigInt in a full-stack application with Spring Boot
Published: January 04, 2019 • javascript
In this blog post we are going to create two neural networks with brain.js and Tensorflow.js, train the MNIST dataset and use the trained model in a web application to detect digits
Published: January 04, 2019 • javascript
In this blog post we are going to look at tfjs-models (https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs-models), a collection of pre-trained models with Tensorflow.js that you can simply add and use from your web application
Published: December 23, 2018 • java, javascript
Creating a simple feedforward neural network in Java and JavaScript, based on the algorithms of Tariq Rashid's book "Make Your Own Neural Network"
Published: December 11, 2018 • java, spring, ionic, javascript
This blog post shows you a way to upload pictures from a web application to Google Cloud Storage and run them through Google Cloud Vision. The application uses Ionic for the front end and Spring Boot for the back end. It utilizes signed URLs for permitting the client to upload pictures directly from the web application to Google Cloud Storage
Published: December 09, 2018 • pwa, javascript, ionic
In this blog post, we look at a way to use the Background Sync API together with Angular's service worker. Or, in general, how to add custom service worker code to a generated Angular service worker.
Published: October 05, 2018 • javascript
How to install a global error handler in an Angular application and send error reports to a back end. The blog post shows you how to collect error reports while the application is offline and send them to a back end as soon as the device is back online.
Published: October 04, 2018 • java, javascript
Converting text from a web application into speech with Google Cloud Text-to-Speech
Published: September 05, 2018 • javascript
The Beacon API in the browser can be used to transfer data to a server. Its primary use case is to send analytics data during the unload event of a web page. In this blog post, we're going to look at the API and create some examples that use the Beacon API to send data to a server.
Published: September 03, 2018 • javascript
A closer look at the ES2020 numeric primitive BigInt
Published: June 26, 2018 • pwa, javascript, java, spring, ionic
This blog post takes a closer look at the Background Sync API, part of the service worker implementation, and presents an example that uses Background Sync to synchronize data between an Ionic web application and a Spring Boot server application.
Published: June 22, 2018 • Updated: March 30, 2020 • pwa, javascript
This tutorial describes how to integrate a service worker written with the Workbox library, into an Angular application
Published: May 03, 2018 • java, javascript
In this blog post, I present four examples of how you can implement password checks for commonly used or compromised passwords.
Published: February 28, 2018 • Updated: October 31, 2021 • java, javascript
In this blog post, we create a simple polling application with Java and JavaScript and send real-time updates with server-sent events
Published: February 27, 2018 • java, javascript
Writing human readable regular expressions with the VerbalExpression library
Published: February 14, 2018 • javascript
Two examples of how you can conditionally load polyfills in a JavaScript application
Published: January 15, 2018 • Updated: February 02, 2023 • javascript, selfhost
A short tutorial on how to self-host Polyfill.io on Ubuntu
Published: January 13, 2018 • Updated: October 31, 2021 • java, javascript
An example project that integrates a front end JavaScript application with the Parcel bundler and a Spring Boot application built with Maven into one project and ultimately create one executable JAR.
Published: January 12, 2018 • Updated: December 03, 2018 • database, javascript, ionic
In this blog post I present a way to use Dexie in a TypeScript application
Published: January 12, 2018 • database, javascript
In this blog post, I give you an overview of Dexie, a minimalistic wrapper library for IndexedDB. Write simpler and more concise IndexedDB code with Dexie.
Published: January 09, 2018 • pwa, javascript
Explore the provided methods of the Cache API that is primarily used in Service Workers to cache assets, but can be used anywhere as a general-purpose cache.
Published: January 09, 2018 • Updated: December 07, 2018 • java, javascript, pwa, spring
In this blog post I show you how you can send push messages from a Spring Boot application over Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) to connected clients with the Web Push API. The Push API is part of the Service Worker specification and does not depend on any native plugins.
Published: January 08, 2018 • Updated: August 22, 2019 • javascript
A closer look at the date-fns date/time library. Compare it with Moment.js and look at a few examples.
Published: January 06, 2018 • Updated: December 01, 2018 • ionic, ionic, javascript
How to use arbitrary SVG icons in Ionic
Published: December 18, 2017 • Updated: July 16, 2019 • ionic, javascript, java, spring
In this blog post I present three different way how to integrate a speech recognition functionality into an Ionic app. With a Cordova plugin, the Web Speech API and with RecordRTC and the Google Cloud Speech API.
Published: November 07, 2017 • Updated: December 05, 2018 • ionic, java, spring, javascript
In this blog post, we create a self-hosted location tracker that consists of three parts. An Ionic/Cordova application that continuously sends the current location to a Spring Boot application from where the locations are broadcasted to a website and visualized on Google Maps.
Published: November 05, 2017 • Updated: December 03, 2018 • ionic, java, spring, javascript
In this blog post we create an Ionic app that dynamically requests location data points from a Spring Boot server and displays them on an OpenStreetMap map. The data points are stored in a MongoDB database, and we take advantage of the geospatial query support to read the data points only for a certain area.
Published: September 26, 2017 • Updated: December 04, 2018 • java, ionic, javascript, spring
A closer look at the Flow.js JavaScript library that helps upload files from a browser to the server. Flow.js is a JavaScript library providing multiple simultaneous, stable, fault-tolerant, and resumable/restartable file uploads via the HTML5 File API.
Published: September 25, 2017 • Updated: December 04, 2018 • javascript, cryptography, ionic
Creating a trivial password manager with the Web Cryptography API and the Ionic framework.
Published: September 21, 2017 • Updated: December 04, 2018 • spring, java, javascript, ionic
In this blog, we create REST services in Spring Boot and consume them in an Ionic app. We use the OpenAPI specification for generating API documentation and the client TypeScript code.
Published: September 15, 2017 • Updated: December 03, 2018 • database, javascript, ionic
Example of an Ionic web application that stores data in an IndexedDB and works offline.
Published: September 12, 2017 • Updated: October 30, 2017 • database, javascript
IndexedDB, the database in the browser. How does it work and what can you do with it.
Published: February 27, 2017 • Updated: November 29, 2018 • database, ionic, javascript
A short introduction to Lovefield, a JavaScript SQL database engine. And how to build an Ionic app that uses Lovefield as database access layer.
Published: February 26, 2017 • Updated: March 31, 2020 • ionic, spring, javascript, java
This post describes how a Spring Boot can send messages over FCM to an Ionic / Cordova app
Published: February 22, 2017 • Updated: September 29, 2018 • ionic, javascript
In this post, we look at a way to display charts from the ECharts library in an Ionic app
Published: February 16, 2017 • Updated: December 06, 2018 • ionic, cordova, spring, s3, javascript, java
How to upload files from an Ionic / Cordova app directly to a Minio server or Amazon S3 with pre-signed URLs.
Published: February 12, 2017 • Updated: December 06, 2018 • ionic, cordova, spring, javascript, java
In this article, we create an Ionic application where the user can take a picture, and the app uploads it to a Spring Boot application.
Published: February 05, 2017 • Updated: December 07, 2018 • ionic, spring, java, javascript
How to implement a JWT authentication system with Ionic/Angular and Spring Boot.
Published: January 26, 2017 • Updated: December 04, 2018 • angular, ionic, spring, java, javascript
Example of form validation in an Ionic application. How to create custom synchronous and asynchronous validators and how to validate data on the server with the Java Bean Validation framework.
Published: January 22, 2017 • Updated: December 05, 2017 • angular, javascript
Published: January 20, 2017 • Updated: June 19, 2017 • database, javascript
Published: January 14, 2017 • Updated: December 01, 2018 • ionic, spring, java, javascript
Published: January 04, 2017 • Updated: October 25, 2017 • javascript