a developer's journey with asp.net core and the web
There are a lot of options out in the wild to add authentication to your application. While OAuth is among the most common, it isn’t your only option. Today I’ll show you how to accomplish Windows Authentication with React and .NET Core in a bare bones fashion.
User experience (UX) is a fine art and many developers fail at it. Years ago I watched a basic UX course on PluralSight by Billy Hollis. Since that time I have tried to focus on UX. One thing I’ve learned over the years is how awful modal confirmations are for delete operations. Today we’ll look at another way to approach delete actions by introducing a delayed cancelable action button in React.
You’ve just finished up your fancy new React component and got it into the workflow. You now perform an action on the page. As a result your component renders but it is under the fold and isn’t visible. You want it to be visible immediately. What can you do? Today let’s talk about automatically scrolling React components into view upon render.
Checkboxes are boring. Checkboxes are bland. You have a designer hand over the design for the new website you’re working on and put some pretty checkboxes on there. Sorry man, no can do, you say. Guess what though? You can. In this post we’re going to talk about creating a styled checkbox using React.
I recently had a scenario come up where the client I’m working for wanted a countdown timer on their homepage. I had previously built a similar feature in their old website but did not reproduce it when we built the new site. The old website was a hybrid ASP.NET MVC + Razor views + jQuery + angularJS.