In the previous article, I walked you through how I set up file upload functionality that allows users to upload a file from their media library and save it to the Whinst backend. In this article, I’ll walk you through how I set up functionality that allows saved images to be displayed on the front …
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The ability to upload files such as images and videos is an essential feature in most web and mobile apps, Whinst is no exception. In fact, images and videos are core to the Whinst web app. In this article, I’ll walk you through how I set up file upload functionality. File upload functionality🗂 I set …
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Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, and NFTs are just some of the terms we couldn’t stop hearing about on the news and social media not too long ago. We still hear these words today but just not as much and now they’re usually followed by words like fraud, scam, collapsed, crashed, just to mention a few😅. With such …
Artificial intelligence (AI) and regulation, are two words that are inseparable in the media these days. But what is the regulation of artificial intelligence? According to Wikipedia, this is the development of public sector policies and laws for promoting and regulating artificial intelligence. Governments, authoritative bodies and tech companies around the world are already either …
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After the iPhone 15 announcement event in September social media was filled with all sorts of posts about how there isn’t much of a difference between the iPhone 14 and the iPhone 15 with just a few new features, some of which were said to have since already existed on android phones that came before. …
My tech opinion: After the iPhone 15 is innovation at Apple dead? Read More »
Authorization is a process by which we can allow or restrict resources in an application. This is a very essential feature as it restricts who can see or change objects in an application e.g we’d only want a user who created a particular object in an application to be able to edit or delete it. …
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Have you ever wanted to pay for something in a store or restaurant then instead of swiping or inserting your debit or credit card into a card reader the cashier or waiter simply tapped your card on it? That transaction was powered by what is known as tap-to-pay/contactless technology. So what is tap-to-pay/contactless technology? This …
The Whinst web app so far has 3 main models, these are users, catalogs and products. I’ve so far created endpoints (a specific location within an API that accepts requests and sends back responses) for these models to be created, edited and deleted. In this article, I’ll walk you through how I created these endpoints …
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After fully adding authentication functionality into the Whinst web app I moved on to adding functionality to the home page. I did this by first adding API endpoints(a specific location within an API that accepts requests and sends back responses). The home page has one endpoint which gets the catalogs that a registered user has …
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The final piece of authentication functionality I’ve added to the Whinst web app is user account verification. This is an essential feature as it’ll help identify and give access to only legit users. In this article, I’ll walk you through how I set up user account verification. Let’s dive in🏄🏾. Setting up user verification 🔐 …
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