John Papa

Building MEAN Apps with Cosmos DB - Part 3: Angular and Expres APIs I've released a new videos series that shows how to build MEAN apps using Cosmos DB. Each video in the series will be a couple of minutes and show how each part of the application works. This next video shows how to create the UI with Angular and connect to the Express APIs. I build out the Angular component to show the heroes list, and to allow editing, inserting, and deleting of heroes. I create the Angular service that connects to the Express APIs and run it in the browser! This video series explores: Exploring the Angular, Express, Node, and Cosmos DB app Building the Node.js...

Building MEAN Apps with Cosmos DB I've released a new videos series that shows how to build MEAN apps using Cosmos DB. Each video in the series will be a couple of minutes and show how each part of the application works. This next video shows how to create the app. One of the best ways to create a MEAN app is to start with the Angular CLI to generate a starting point. We'll use this and extend it to include Node.js and Express.js, to serve our future APIs to the Angular app. Then we'll test out an API to make sure it works. This video series explores: Exploring the Angular, Express, Node, and Cosmos DB app [1m...

Building MEAN Apps with Cosmos DB I've released a new video series that shows how to build MEAN apps using Cosmos DB. Each video in the series will be a couple of minutes and show how each part of the application works. The first video is out now (see below)! I build a lot of apps with MongoDB, Express, Angular and Node (MEAN). MongoDB just works so well with these, but recently I've been using Cosmos DB on Azure in its place because it's easy to use, scale, is super fast, and I don't have to change how I code. Cosmos DB makes it easy to step right in where I used to use Mongo, because it lets me use...

Most cloud platforms offer both a visual interface and a CLI for us developers, and Azure is not different here. I use both, but I primarily enjoy the CLI once I know what I want and when I want to get there quickly. UI's are great when we need that guided experience, which is often helpful. But once we get that familiarity, the CLI can get us through our journey much faster. This allows me to focus on what I am building more. Here is a short video clip showing how you can install the Azure CLI on macOS. You can see instructions for both macOS and Windows, here. You can sign up for the free trial on Azure yet...

I love building web apps with JavaScript and I almost always need an API to serve my data or connect to a behind-the-scenes service. Azure Functions makes this wicked easy. In fact, it takes a just a few minutes. Brian Clark and I share my screen in the video below as we create an Azure Function end-point together. Then we hit it from postman using its public url. Feel free to follow along by trying Azure Functions at this link. You can sign up for the free trial on Azure yet from this link....