Building a MEAN foundation

I spent some time developing an app with Angular at its heart. The app’s called MEANT, which stands for Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node Template – the idea of the template app was to develop a foundation, or a skeleton app, which I could use to bootstrap apps developed in the future. Some of the features […]

OAuth 2: the gatekeeper

I was looking for a way of handling user authentication in Node. Passport.Js looked to be the forerunner via local login strategies. Social sign in caught my eye, I personally like the user experience and use of it often so I decided to explore it. Taking a look under the hood, social sign in relies on OAuth, this is […]

Groundhog day

I watched Groundhog day for the first time this afternoon. I’d like to bring out the lessons Phil Conners, the antagonist turned protagonist, learns during his time reliving the same day for 30 plus years. Phil, a weather presenter with a cup half empty outlook, wakes up at 6am everyday to find it’s always the same day. […]