In any application, you may need to track user involvement in real-time features. In a gaming, chatting or otherwise real-time and interactive application, we want to track things like which users are present in a chat/game/live stream or who is typing a message/shooting aliens/streaming a thing.… »
Since I clearly cannot get enough of JWT [https://www.thegreatcodeadventure.com/jwt-auth-in-rails-from-scratch/] authentication [https://www.thegreatcodeadventure.com/jwt-authentication-with-react-redux/], here's a look at how to use it to authenticate your shiny new Phoenix API with a React + Redux front-end application, using React Router 4. In this post, we&… »
In my previous post [https://www.thegreatcodeadventure.com/understanding-file-permissions-or-binary-for-4th-graders/], we (all the math n00bs out there) learned the secrets of the Binary system. We came to understand the basic formula for taking a binary number and converting it to its Base-10 (human-friendly) counterpart. To sum up: * Take the digit at… »
No One Does Math(s) These Days When I was a kid I wanted to grow up and become a doctor. You may already know this, but I am not a doctor. Why? Well, it turns out that in order to practice medicine, you have to be able to do… »
MVC is Not Enough! We're familiar with the MVC (Model-View-Controller) pattern that Rails offers us––our models map to database tables and wrap our data in objects; controllers receive requests for data and serve up data to the views; views present the data. A common analogy is that… »