Storing secrets such as database passwords, API keys, tokens, et cetera in .env files or appsettings.json or similar config files are not very secure. This is probably universally-known and requires no further elaboration. If you work with Azure as your cloud platform and want to learn how to do programmatically…

In Xamarin.Forms, Control Template offers a powerful way to build a template. The template is built by composing smaller parts. But building a template is not the end goal. …

Cross posted on dev.to Capturing the Device Tokens is necessary for push notification to work. A Device Token is nothing but an ID that uniquely identifies a combination of a device and an app. So if we have 2 apps running on the same device, they will have different Device…

There are use cases, commonly related with passwordless authentication or second-factor authentication where iOS users are required to enter some 4-digits or 6-digits numeric code that they received in an email or text to their phones. Here are the requirements of what we are going to build: There are 6-digits…

Step by step guide using a light weight approach — 1. Introduction Learning how to correctly write and deploy with Azure Function beyond a “Hello Azure Function” is difficult. It is that way because although Azure documentation is plentiful but just not well organized. Conceptually it’s actually easy, if the documentation is not such a big mess. Recently I had to re-architect…

This article was cross-posted on dev.to In this article, I will show how to implement and secure a C#/.NET (hereinafter I will only say C#) WebAPI. To secure the WebAPI, we will use JWT. The JWT is signed by a NodeJS backend using Private Key. …

…without saying the words “close over” — There are plenty of articles discussing about the closure, too many to be listed here. They all eventually incorporate long code examples in various languages into the explanation, which is fine. …

The following code runs perfectly fine on a NodeJS server that’s hosted outside of Azure App Services: During development, running NodeJS on a local server, the environment variable API_AI_ACCESS_TOKEN are set in package.json file. Just for completeness, let me show the constants.js …