Dzulqarnain Nasir

Real-time web applications with gRPC - Part 2

In my previous post, I described how we set up the back-end infrastructure for our real-time public transportation monitoring system. I will now cover the front-end setup of the application.

The idea

Before we proceed, I’d like to briefly describe the architectural design for the front-end application.

The idea is to receive the data from our gRPC server, feed it into the application state manager, and show a visual representation of that data to the end user.

Real-time web applications with gRPC - Part 1

In this series, I’ll be collaborating with my colleague, Valdis Iljuconoks, on the topic of real-time data distribution using gRPC. If you haven’t done so already, head over to Valdis’ blog for a multi-part series on “Building Real-time Public Transport Tracking System on Azure” for details on setting up the Azure infrastructure for this project. This post focuses on the client distribution system.

Let’s get started.

Migrating from WebpackDevMiddleware to SpaServices.Extensions

Upgrading to .Net Core 3.x resulted in some breaking changes for my front-end development process, in particular the Hot Module Reloading (HMR) feature that I use in all my projects.

If you use the WebpackDevMiddleware, it’s likely you would have seen this message pop up after upgrading to .Net Core 3.

So, what do we do now?

Getting Storybook to work with Vuetify 2.0

This is just a short post regarding how I got Storybook to play nicely with Vuetify after upgrading to Vuetify 2.0.

As most of you already know, Vuetify 2.0 recently came out. That’s awesome, but it also came with a few breaking changes, the primary of which is their move towards making Vuetify a Vue plugin, which had to be bootstrapped to the primary Vue instance.

This is fine and all, except it broke my Storybook build.

Azure Functions + Node.js + TypeScript + Webpack

I’m a big TypeScript fan. If my blog posts and GitHub projects haven’t already made that clear, I’m now putting that on record.

So when I found out that the latest azure-functions-core-tools now comes with the ability to create a Functions app in TypeScript out of the box, I got excited.

In this post, I’d like to share my experience setting up an Azure Functions App project for Node.js in TypeScript, with Webpack for generating the app bundles.