I recently found Postman has built-in capability to run load (performance) testing. Some use cases to run load testing are identifying bottlenecks, latency, and failures on your API when calling at near production scale.
We need to configure CORS in .NET (or really in any other language) when an application’s front-end and back-end are being served from different domains, aka origins. And more than likely, during development, both the front-end and back-end will be running from different ports on localhost.
There are many great posts about implementing the Options Pattern .NET Core with IOptionsMonitor on the interwebs, but many fail to point out one “gotcha” when working with IOtionsMonitor to live reload settings.
I started working on the official “Getting started with GraphQL on ASP.NET Core and Hot Chocolate – Workshop” tutorial, but since the workshop is a bit outdated, it targets .NET 5 and an older version of Hot Chocolate. I am using the latest .NET 7 (at the time of this writing) and top-level statements. In […]
If you are still running Synology DSM 6 and are looking into migrating to Synology DSM 7, and one of the main Synology apps you use is Photo Station, there are some major changes in how Synology handles photo uploading in the new Synology Photos app.
After updating Gatsby from 3.0.4 to 4.12.1 I got the following error message: Error: Cannot find module ‘gatsby-plugin-utils/polyfill-remote-file’ and the stack trace below:
With many lightbox gallery solutions on NPM, I ended up writing my own React Custom Lightbox Gallery Component to meet my specific needs. I was looking for a “lightbox” type gallery that would allow me to display images (multiple images in the same modal), videos, text, and a mix of that, all within the same […]
With many modal solutions on NPM, I ended up writing my own React Custom Modal Component to meet my specific needs. Well, the above statement is not entirely true. I was looking for a “lightbox” type gallery that would allow me to display images (multiple images in the same modal), videos, text, and a mix […]
How to use a custom React hook to auto-play a video with Intersection Observer when it becomes visible and pause when it goes out of view. I was building my wife’s website and she wanted to play a video clip as a background with some text overlaying the video. I knew I did not want […]
In this tutorial, we will go step by step on how to add a React App to a NET Core MVC App. Handling 404 pages and client routing. I am one to think that not everything I build has to be a Single Page Application (SPA). Recently I was building a project for a client, […]