Twenty Minutes of Code: Setting Up an API with Firebase Functions
This is Part 3 in my first “20 Minutes of Code” series (if you need to, you can catch up on Part 1 and/or Part 2). We have a TaskJournal application that we’re trying to send out into the interwebs. Last time, we created a Firebase project and used it to ship our production-ready files …. Read More
Twenty Minutes of Code: Deploying to Firebase Hosting
This is Part 2 of my “20 Minutes of Code” series. Last time, I started to deploy to Firebase hosting but ended up figuring out how to generate a production build with create-react-app instead. For real this time: we’re going to deploy the new production build to Firebase. Of course, the first step to any …. Read More
Twenty Minutes of Code: To Eject or Not to Eject
There are some side projects that I have tried to work on in only twenty minutes at a time. This is an interesting constraint because software is notoriously time-consuming. The result is interesting too. I spend a lot of time distilling my next step down into something that is 1) an improvement and 2) complete. …. Read More