I have been playing around with Razor Pages as of late, you can read more at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/razor-pages/?view=aspnetcore-2.1&tabs=visual-studio. The main difference with Razor Pages and ASP.NET MVC is that the Razor Page includes both the model and the controller. It is more of an MVVM approach, that also includes two-way data binding. Anyway, I was struggling with…
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Adventures with ASP.NET MVC: EasyMDE
For my jQuery projects, I have started using plugin easyMDE as my defacto Markdown Editor https://github.com/Ionaru/easy-markdown-editor, which is a fork of simpleMDE located at https://github.com/sparksuite/simplemde-markdown-editor – which hasn’t been updated in over two years. For my latest project, I was able to get easyMDE easily implemented in my ASP.NET MVC application on a Create operation, but the…
JSON Web Tokens
This site https://jwt.io is a great resource to view the contents of a JSON Web Token. I was having problems with a token complaining that it was not valid, only to discover that, for some reason, I was receiving an outdated or expired token. So I took the expiration value and converted it to a…
React and Environment Variables
Create-react-app 1.0.0 added support for automatically reading configuration files for the three pre-defined environments: development, test, and production. As before, default (lowest priority) values may be defined in .env, and the value of NODE_ENV is set automatically based on the script used: start → development test → test build → production The 1.0.0 release adds…