Useful tools for development

useful-dev-stuff.md

Useful tools 'n' stuff for development

Stripe

• Subscription Life-cycle
• How to handle failed subscriptions
• Subscription status explained
• Subscription throws Incomplete status
• Subscription Payment Using Swift (really helpful article!)
• Code example on GitHub for above example

TypeScript

• Get Class methods in Typescript (e.g. use Reflect.ownKeys())
• Ignore error Property does not exist on value of type
• When to use never and unknown in TypeScript

NativeScript

• Nativescript URL handler
• Nativescript Universal links
• Nativescript VideoPlayer
• Application lifecycle
• Tracing Nativescript Applications
• Nativescript Tips and Tricks from the Squad
• ScrollView scrollToVerticalOffset does not work
• Nativescript Scroll to bottom of ScrollView programmatically
• Scroll to anchor point
• The Ultimate Guide to mastering Nativescript layouts
• Application settings (globals)
• iOS Provisioning profiles
• Memory usage increases on subsequent navigation
• How to catch all unhandled exceptions
• Disabling rethrowing exception to native platform
• Resume event handling

Angular

• Angular Route reuse stategy
• Angular error handling best practices
• Global Error Handling in Angular
• Hunting memory leaks with Xcode
• Diagnosing memory leaks with Xcode instruments
• What is the difference between Subject and BehaviorSubject?
• Difference between all subjects
• What is the difference between Observable and a Subject in rxjs?

Python

• Virtual environments (use python3 -m venv env and source env/bin/activate)
• Fixing error ImproperlyConfigured("Error loading psycopg2 module: %s" % e) (use pip install psycopg2-binary --force-reinstall --no-cache-dir)
• Arrow: Better dates & times for Python
• Delorean: Time Travel Made Easy
• Convert a QuerySet to a JSON in Django

PostgreSQL

• Disable foreign key checks for migrations in PostgreSQL (use SET session_replication_role = 'replica';, reset with SET session_replication_role = 'origin';)
• Connecting to PostgreSQL in a Docker container from the outside

GraphQL

• Sign out when token is invalid or expired
• Apollo GraphQL Authentication and authorization
• JWT tokens for authentication using Apollo GraphQL
• JWT authentication with Apollo GraphQL tips and tricks
• Apollo GraphQL Async access token refresh
• Setting up authentication and authorization with Apollo GraphQL
• Apollo GraphQL authentication recipes
• Apollo link token refresh

Dj-Stripe

• Dj-Stripe home page
• Django and Stripe integration with Dj-Stripe (use python manage.py djstripe_init_customers and python manage.py djstripe_sync_plans_from_stripe)

Xcode

• Framework missing, does not build in Xcode (open .xcworkspace instead of .xcodeproj file)

Apple

• Distributing in-house apps to Apple devices
• Missing iOS Entitlements?
• Configure Apple Pay

Android

• Setting up your system: macOS + Android (hot tip: use Java 11, run brew install --cask temurin11)
• Android emulator not able to access the internet (set your DNS to 8.8.8.8)
• Capturing Back button on Android

Firebase

• NativeScript Firebase plugin
• NativeScript Firebase Core
• NativeScript Firebase Common
• Nativescript & Firebase: Installation and First Steps

Facebook SDK

• NativeScript FB Analytics
• NativeScript Facebook

General

• Why you shouldn't use env variables for secret data
• Docker Swarm mode overview
• Calculate string similarity
• Fusetunnel