About a week ago I wrote about Ripple in a tutorial titled, Build a Ripple XRP Wallet for Android and iOS with Ionic Framework, which focused on mobile development as a followup to a cross-platform desktop application that I had written about before that. There are many who would advise against stor...

I’ve been spending a lot of time researching and watching the blockchain market because it is a very interesting subject matter. Not too long ago I had written an article titled, Create a Cross-Platform Desktop Ripple XRP Wallet with Vue.js and Electron, which focused on the Ripple, the banking netw...

A few days ago I released, what turned out to be, a very popular article around developing a Ripple XRP wallet. It was titled, Create a Cross-Platform Desktop Ripple XRP Wallet with Vue.js and Electron, and it focused on cross-platform desktop application development. A popular request on Twitter wa...

As you are probably aware, I’ve been interested in cryptocurrency and the blockchain lately. I haven’t necessarily been buying anything, but I’ve been doing a lot of watching as it has all been very interesting so far. I decided, a few weeks ago, to purchase some Ripple (XRP) because it seems like i...

This marks the third year that I’ve been producing content for The Polyglot Developer and all of its channels. It’s been a long year and I’ve accomplished a lot, some of which was different than previous years. Below you’ll find my statistics that may help you if you’re planning on creating a blog o...

I was recently working on a Functions as a Service (FaaS) project using AWS Lambda and Node.js. However, I was running into an issue where my package dependencies found in my node_modules directory were for the wrong platform once deployed to Lambda. This is not the first time I experienced a proble...

When it comes to serverless solutions, there are many options available. If you’re a fan of the Microsoft cloud, you could create Azure Functions. If you’ve been keeping up, I wrote a tutorial called, Take a Node.js with Express API Serverless Using AWS Lambda, which used the Amazon Web Services clo...

Not too long ago I had written about creating an API with Node.js and Express that accepted image uploads and manipulated the images to be Android compliant before returning them in a ZIP archive. This article was titled, Create an Android Launcher Icon Generator RESTful API with Node.js, and Jimp, ...

Docker is a great way to package and deploy web applications. Applications that have been containerized can easily be created, destroyed, or even moved between servers, as long as the servers are using the Docker runtime. Not too long ago I wrote about creating a RESTful API that could process image...

When you’re developing an Android mobile application, it is critical that you come up with a nice launcher icon for all possible Android screen densities. If you’re not too familiar with Android, there are mdpi, hdpi, xhdpi, xxhdpi, and xxxhdpi densities as of now. This number could change in the fu...

NativeScript is great. There is an easy setup process (at least for Windows, I unfortunately don’t have a Mac so I can’t speak on the MacOS side of things) that provides an executable that helps you through all the steps of setup. Unfortunately, like any automated setup process, things can go awry a...

A few weeks back I wrote about accepting file uploads in a Node.js application that uses Hapi framework. This was a followup to an article I wrote titled, Upload Files to Node.js Using Angular. What if we wanted to use a different front-end framework instead of Angular? We’re going to take a look at...

When building an application of any kind, there may be a need to have it send emails. For example, let’s say you’re building a script and that script needs to send a report through email when it has completed. Or another example is a web application with a form for collecting user feedback. There ar...

Not too long ago I had written a few tutorials around navigation in a Vue.js web application. I had written about navigating between routes as well as passing data between routes in the form of route parameters and query parameters. When developing a web application with a successful user interface,...

To continue down my path of solving the worlds cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) problems, I wanted to adventure into Hapi, a Node.js framework that I’ve been heavily using lately. If you’re not familiar with cross-origin resource sharing, it is something that frequently comes up when you try to ...

When getting started with a new development technology or framework, a basic todo list style application is often in the examples used for learning. It makes a great example because todo lists often make use of a variety of things such as forms, loops, and other binding events, all while remaining s...

A few weeks ago I had written about creating routes and navigating a Vue.js web application. It was a basic example of getting around in an application. Often, when building navigation into your application, you’ll find that you need to pass data from one screen to another. For example, maybe you’re...

Not too long ago I wrote a tutorial titled, Use Social Media Sharing Prompts in a NativeScript Angular Application, which demonstrated how to share content from the device. The sharing included locations like Facebook, Twitter, and anything else the platform found appropriate. This included SMS text...

If you’ve been a long time subscriber to The Polyglot Developer, you’ll know that I use the blog as a way to document what I learn on a day to day basis. I’ll never remember what I did six months ago unless I document the steps to reproduce it later. I’d like to think that I’m a developer first and ...

Including map functionality in your mobile application is often a very important necessity, depending on the scenario. Maybe your application needs to do navigation, or simply just show locations on a map. There are many different map providers, the most popular being Google Maps. However, Mapbox is...

When building a web application, I personally find file uploads to be the most complicated part of the job. For example, how do you accept the files, and what do you do with them after you’ve received them in the request? Not too long ago I wrote about accepting file uploads in Node.js sent via Angu...

When building a modern web application, being able to navigate between pages is a necessity. Not to mention it is very important to be able to do so easily. To make this possible, frameworks such as Angular, React, and Vue use what’s known as a router and a set of routes. Each possible point of navi...

Proper cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) configuration is one of those things that is completely necessary when building a RESTful API, but also one of those things that is a total pain in the butt when it comes to prototyping an application. CORS related errors are common when testing a web appl...

As many of you know, I’ve been trying to expand the brand for The Polyglot Developer. I’ve redesigned the site, printed shirts, and even started creating stickers. I’ve been printing circular stickers with Sticker Mule, and one thing that had been a real challenge is adding circular or curved text t...

If you’ve ever spent time building RESTful APIs, you’ve probably come across cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) issues at some time or another. Often clients will receive errors when trying to interact with an API from a domain or port different from the actual API. Back in the day I had written a...

When building a modern web application, chances are that you’ll need to consume data from some remote resource, whether it be one that you’ve built or something someone else built. Sending HTTP requests is one of the more popular ways to send data from client facing applications to RESTful API backe...

Most, not all, Android and iOS applications follow a similar set of rules when it comes to user experience. For example, many applications make use of what can be referred to as a hamburger menu in the top left or right hand side of the screen. These hamburger menus look like three horizontal lines ...

As you may remember, I recently released The Polyglot Developer 2.0 which was a migration from WordPress to Hugo. Because my WordPress permalinks matched a similar format to Hugo I didn’t have to make too many changes. However, there was an issue with the category and tag taxonomies. In Hugo these w...

Not too long I wrote about consuming remote API data using Golang. However, as you know, I’m also a heavy Node.js developer as well. So how do we issue HTTP requests from within a Node.js application and why might you want to. The simple answer is that you might want to consume someone else’s data w...

Back when I was really getting into the swing of Node.js, I had written about creating a simple RESTful API that made use of the Express framework. Express was, and still is, one of the most popular frameworks for creating web applications with Node.js. However, this doesn’t mean it is the best solu...