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How to debug Angular 2 with WebStorm

How to debug Angular 2 with WebStorm

WebStorm [https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/] is my favorite choice when it comes to develop web applications especially with Angular 2 [https://angular.io/]. Most of the time I have a fullscreen WebStorm on my primary and Chrome on my secondary screen. When it comes to debugging, I spin up

Node.js & ASP.NET Core 1.0: A Usage Comparison - Part 4: Cross-Origin Resource Sharing

Node.js & ASP.NET Core 1.0: A Usage Comparison - Part 4: Cross-Origin Resource Sharing

Welcome back to the fourth part of the series [https://manuel-rauber.com/tag/series-node-js-and-asp-net-core-1-0-usage-comparison/]! Don't forget that everything explained in this post can be seen in the open-source GitHub project [https://github.com/thinktecture/nodejs-aspnetcore-webapi/]. The post itself contains important code pieces only. Same Origin Policy For security

Node.js & ASP.NET Core 1.0: A Usage Comparison - Part 3: Basic Routing

Node.js & ASP.NET Core 1.0: A Usage Comparison - Part 3: Basic Routing

Welcome back to the third part of the series [https://manuel-rauber.com/tag/series-node-js-and-asp-net-core-1-0-usage-comparison/]! Don't forget that everything explained in this post can be seen in the open-source GitHub project [https://github.com/thinktecture/nodejs-aspnetcore-webapi/]. The post itself contains important code pieces only. In this part we take

Node.js & ASP.NET Core 1.0: A Usage Comparison - Part 2: Web API Server Setup

Node.js & ASP.NET Core 1.0: A Usage Comparison - Part 2: Web API Server Setup

Welcome back to the second part of the series [https://manuel-rauber.com/2016/03/07/node-js-asp-net-core-1-0-a-usage-comparison/]! Don't forget that everything explained in this post can be seen in the open-source GitHub project [https://github.com/thinktecture/nodejs-aspnetcore-webapi/]. The post itself contains important code pieces only. In this part

Node.js & ASP.NET Core 1.0: A Usage Comparison - Part 1: Intro

Node.js & ASP.NET Core 1.0: A Usage Comparison - Part 1: Intro

Some days ago I was talking about Web APIs with Node.js for .NET developers [https://speakerdeck.com/manuelrauber/web-apis-mit-node-dot-js-fur-net-entwickler-uber-den-tellerrand-geblickt] at the BASTA! [https://basta.net/] Conference in Darmstadt, Germany. We from Thinktecture [http://thinktecture.com] had a blast at this great conference! My main focus in this session was

Flakes - An alternative to proven HTML5 cross-platform UI Frameworks

Flakes - An alternative to proven HTML5 cross-platform UI Frameworks

Every developer can relate to this quote: > There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. > -- Phil Karlton I want to add another thing to Phil's list: Finding an UI framework. Don't get me wrong, there are a

Back to the roots: Creating thin Web APIs using the Core of ASP.NET Core 1.0

Back to the roots: Creating thin Web APIs using the Core of ASP.NET Core 1.0

I'm currently fiddling about ASP.NET Core 1.0 [https://docs.asp.net/en/latest/] using VS Code [https://code.visualstudio.com/] on my Mac. I have a simple scenario: Building a Web API which has CRUD operations for a CustomerModel. So purely HTTP things. :-) My controller

Supercharge your ghost.io blog with CloudFlare

Supercharge your ghost.io blog with CloudFlare

Intro As you may noticed I switched my blog over to ghost.io [https://ghost.io/]. My colleague and friend Thorsten has a nice blog post [https://www.xplatform.rocks/2016/02/01/ghost-as-blogging-platform/] about the reasons which I highly share. Writing posts and creating templates is so much cleaner,

Starting WebStorm with a custom Java SDK on Mac OS X

Starting WebStorm with a custom Java SDK on Mac OS X

Update Okay, there is a much easier way of switching the Java SDK for WebStorm. Just press shift twice to invoke WebStorm's Search Everywhere feature, type in "Switch Boot JDK" and select the "Switch IDE boot JDK..." action. Then select your JDK, you want

Using geo-based data with SequelizeJS utilizing PostgreSQL and MS SQL Server in Node.js

Using geo-based data with SequelizeJS utilizing PostgreSQL and MS SQL Server in Node.js

I’m currently building an Angular 2 sample application, which will use location-based data. The app uses the browser’s navigator.geolocation [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/geolocation] feature to obtain the current position and send it to a server which returns a list of chat

Angular 2 Spinner Component

Angular 2 Spinner Component

As I posted the little Input Debounce Component [https://manuel-rauber.com/2015/12/31/debouncing-angular-2-input-component/]some days ago, here is a very little Angular 2 Spinner Component. The component uses a spinner from Tobias Ahlin’s SpinKit [https://github.com/tobiasahlin/SpinKit]. For completeness, I’ll post the CSS and

Where are my Observable operators? :-)

Where are my Observable operators? :-)

Just a note to myself: Since AngularJS 2 Beta 0, it will not expose Observable anymore. Before Beta 0 (or some alpha’ish 48) you could do: import {Observable} from 'angular2/angular2'; Starting with Beta 0, you need to import it directly from RxJS: import {Observable} from '

Debouncing Angular 2 Input Component

Debouncing Angular 2 Input Component

This post was written when Angular 2 beta0 was the current version. Since Angular 2 [https://angular.io/] is now beta, I decided to give it a try by rewriting an existing Angular 1 [https://angularjs.org/]app to Angular 2. And by rewrite I mean to remove all the

Automatically augment find() results of SequelizeJS with Auth0 user data

Automatically augment find() results of SequelizeJS with Auth0 user data

For my current side project (aside from TankZ! [https://manuel-rauber.com/2015/06/15/tankz-a-game-made-to-learn-unity/];-)) I’m using Auth0 [http://auth0.com] for identity management as well as SequelizeJS [http://docs.sequelizejs.com/en/latest/] with a MS SQL server. That said, I don’t have the user data

Connect to MS SQL using Node.js and SequelizeJS

Today I tried using Node.js together with SequelizeJS [http://docs.sequelizejs.com/en/latest/] to connect to a named MS SQL instance. SequelizeJS is an ORM providing abstractions to work with databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL and more. While the documentation is really good, it is missing the

Barrel shooting animation

In this little blog post I want to cover how a barrel shooting animation is created. When the player shoots (in this case presses the left mouse button) a little shooting animation should be started. It will animate a recoil of the barrel.This is how the tank game object

Identity Server

Authenticated ASP.NET Web API Integration Testing hosted by OWIN/Katana

This post is backed up from my old blog and was posted at 2014-12-09. I had to add some integration tests to a Web API which was secured by an [Authorize]-attribute. I’m usingThinktecture Identity Server v3 [https://github.com/thinktecture/Thinktecture.IdentityServer.v3] for authentication and authorization using

Tank move and barrel mouse follow script

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series [TankZ - A game made to learn Unity](https://manuel-rauber.com/series/tankz-a-game-made-to-learn-unity/ "TankZ - A game made to learn Unity")After we’ve set up the first visual representation of a tank, we want to move the

First things first: Get some graphics

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series [TankZ - A game made to learn Unity](https://manuel-rauber.com/series/tankz-a-game-made-to-learn-unity/ "TankZ - A game made to learn Unity")After getting used to the Unity editor, I started developing TankZ by getting some graphics first. Developing

TankZ Introduction

Since I’ve discovered Unity [http://unity3d.com/] a long time ago, I’ve always wanted to try it out. I’m a big fan of playing Tower Defence (TD) games, so my big goal is, to create own by my own. My mind already produces a lot of ideas

First impressions of Xamarin.Forms

This post is backed up from my old blog and was posted at 2014-06-14. With the release of Xamarin 3, they released a new library called Xamarin.Forms [http://blog.xamarin.com/announcing-xamarin-3/]. It’s a library for building cross-plattform shared UI. This means you write your UI once and

My latex environment

This post is backed up from my old blog and was posted at 2013-10-28. Some days ago, my fellow students asked me about my LaTeX environment. Since some years all of my papers for school or university are written with LaTeX. Especially when it comes to larger writing, I love

OpenGeoDB for MS SQL Server

This post is backed up from my old blog and was posted at 2013-07-28. For a project I need the data of the OpenGeoDB [http://opengeodb.org/wiki/OpenGeoDB]. The OpenGeoDB project aims to build a database with geo coordinates for all cities and zip codes. Currently it supports Austria,