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Adding Cognito

Why do I torture myself? Not only do I hate frontend code, I hate trying to handle user authentication. It feels like anything I can think of doing is not secure enough or so complicated I can’t wrap my head around it. I once was told that for something like user security you shouldn’t try to do it yourself, you should allow those who specialize in it to handle it. So here I go, I’m going to try to use Amazon Cognito to do just that form me.

Thursday, March 3, 2022 Read

Writing Mocha 1

Let’s get started with Mocha Be forewarned this post is going to be a brain dump as I work through this information. I have never wrote Mocha before, and to be honest I have never been good about TDD. I always write my code and then go back and write my tests. This is mainly because I am not always sure what I expect to get out of my code until it’s too late. However, with this project I am trying to push myself to work on myself just as much create something in my head from start to finish.

Wednesday, March 2, 2022 Read

S3 Object Creation

Whoops Ever gone down that path of trying to be too smart for your own good? Yeah that happened to me this time. I want to start out by saying, I am not a frontend developer, so some of the “normal” things that they would expect are still beyond my knowledge. But the thing that really bit me in the butt may not have been the frontend code. So let me give you the backdrop here.

Tuesday, March 1, 2022 Read

Designing the Front End Part 1

Choosing my framework So I am a gluten for punishment some times. I do not enjoy front end designing at all. I also don’t take the time to layout a workflow, or any form of design structure. So where do you start if you don’t even know how your site is going to behave? How do you know if you are going to get the right framework? IDK. I just grabbed the one I like the most. I grabbed Vue JS 3 because the last time I tried to build a front end it was very easy to use. The library sets everything up for you, it’s very responsive in nature, and since I already knew about it, that helped.

Wednesday, February 9, 2022 Read