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Matt Raible
Matt Raible is a well-known figure in the Java community and has been building web applications for most of his adult life. For over 20 years, he has helped developers learn and adopt open source frameworks and use them effectively. He's a web developer, Java Champion, and Developer Advocate at Okta. Matt has been a speaker at many conferences worldwide, including Devnexus, Devoxx Belgium, Devoxx France, Jfokus, and JavaOne. He is the author of The Angular Mini-Book, The JHipster Mini-Book, Spring Live, and contributed to Pro JSP. He is a frequent contributor to open source and a member of the JHipster development team. You can find him online @mraible and raibledesigns.com.
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React Native is a mobile app framework from Facebook. It allows you to quickly develop apps using React's API and deploy them to iOS and Android. It allows you to quickly refresh the apps when you make changes and generally offers a pleasant experience for web developers.
Read moreMicro Frontends for Java Microservices
9 min read
Microservices have been quite popular in the Java ecosystem ever since Spring Boot and Spring Cloud made them easy to build and deploy. Things have gotten even easier in recent years with the proliferation of new Java frameworks built specifically for microservices: MicroProfile, Micronaut, Quarkus, and Helidon. Not only do…
Read moreGet Started with Spring Boot and SAML
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Spring is a long-time friend to enterprise companies throughout the world. When Spring Boot came along in 2014, it greatly simplified configuring a Spring application. This led to widespread adoption and continued investment in related Spring projects.
Read moreReact was designed to make it painless to create interactive UIs. Its state management is efficient and only updates components when your data changes. Component logic is written in JavaScript, meaning you can keep state out of the DOM and create encapsulated components.
Read moreOAuth for Java Developers
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You can use OAuth to secure apps, APIs, and devices. OAuth has become increasingly popular, especially as developers are asked to knit together hundreds of apps and thousands of users in enterprise environments.
Read moreCreate a Java REST API with Helidon
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In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a secure REST API and native image with Helidon. You'll see how to run a secure, OAuth 2.0-protected, Java REST API that allows JWT authentication. Then, I'll compare its performance with Micronaut, Quarkus, and Spring Boot.
Read moreLaunch a Java REST API with Micronaut
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In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a secure REST API and native image with Micronaut. You'll see how to run a secure, OAuth 2.0-protected, Java REST API that allows JWT authentication. Then, I'll compare its performance with Quarkus, Spring Boot, and Helidon.
Read moreStart a Java REST API with Spring Boot
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In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a secure REST API and native image with Spring Boot. You'll see how to run a secure, OAuth 2.0-protected, Java REST API that allows JWT authentication. Then, I'll compare its performance with Micronaut, Quarkus, and Helidon.
Read moreKickstart a Java REST API with Quarkus
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In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a secure REST API and native image with Quarkus. You'll see how to run a secure, OAuth 2.0-protected, Java REST API that allows JWT authentication. Then, I'll compare its performance with Micronaut, Spring Boot, and Helidon.
Read moreIonic is a framework for building mobile apps with web technologies that look and act like native apps. Because they're built with web technologies (HTML, JavaScript, and CSS), you can also deploy your Ionic apps as single-page applications. Or, even better, as progressive web apps (PWAs) that work offline.
Read moreGetting something to work is one of the greatest feelings you can have as a developer. Especially when you've spent hours, days, or months trying to make it happen. The last mile can be one of the most painful and rewarding experiences, all wrapped into the same day or two.
Read moreOver the years, I've developed a lot of Java applications. I started writing Java code in the late 90s and spent several years doing Java before I tried another server-side language. I was impressed when I first tried building apps in Ruby on Rails, Python, and Node.js - they all…
Read moreAngularJS 1.0 was released in October 2010. At the time, it was considered one of the most revolutionary and popular web frameworks ever to see the light of day. Developers loved it, and created many apps with it. However, as a pioneer in the JS framework space, AngularJS had some…
Read moreProject Helidon is a set of Java libraries for writing microservices. It's an open source, Apache 2.0-licensed, Oracle-sponsored project and contains support for MicroProfile as well as a reactive, functional API. Helidon's two different styles are known as Helidon MP and SE, respectively. The helidon.io website says:
Read moreIf you search for "Full Stack Java" on the internet, you'll likely find a lot of recruiting, courses, and jobs. Being a full stack developer can be exciting because you can create the backend and frontend of an app all by yourself. There is business logic and algorithms as well…
Read moreIn the fall of 2020, the Spring team released a new experimental Spring Native project that gave Spring developers hope for faster startup times. Spring Native is all about converting your Spring applications to native executables. It leverages GraalVM to make it happen. This announcement was huge because the new…
Read moreJava has been able to invoke native programs on an operating system for decades. Invoking native programs is often done using JNI (Java Native Interface) and JNA (Java Native Access). In the last few years, Java has also gained the ability to run JVM apps as native apps. That is,…
Read moreWhen your business or application is successful, it needs to scale. Not just technology-wise, but human-wise. When you're growing rapidly, it can be difficult to hire developers fast enough. Using a microservices architecture for your apps can allow you to divide up ownership and responsibilities, and scale teams along with…
Read moreJava has been at the forefront of microservice architectures since they came to prominence a few years ago. It's a popular language with well-known, high-quality frameworks, like Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Data, and Spring Security.
Read more25 Years of JavaScript and Java! 🎉
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The year is 1995...
Read moreThe Okta CLI is a new tool we've created here at Okta. It's designed to streamline creating new Okta accounts, registering apps, and getting started. Wwwhhaaattt, you might say?! That's right, it's super awesome!
Read moreSpring Boot and Okta in 2 Minutes
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The Okta CLI is a new tool we've created here at Okta. It's designed to streamline the process of creating new Okta accounts, registering apps, and getting started. Wwwhhaaattt, you might say?! That's right, it's super awesome!
Read moreBuilding a web application involves a lot of moving pieces. You have a backend server handling API calls, a frontend application running business logic, and you need to somehow make sure both are in sync and secure.
Read moreIf you're a Java developer like me, you like to crank out code and get shit done. I like many things about IntelliJ IDEA, but I thought it'd be fun to write about the ones that make me most productive. First, a bit of my development history.
Read moreIonic + Sign in with Apple and Google
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Apple announced a Sign in with Apple service at its WWDC developer conference in June 2019. If you're familiar with social login with Google or Facebook, it's very similar. Most of these identity services use OAuth and OpenID Connect (OIDC), and Apple's implementation is similar.
Read moreMicronaut is a new framework for developing JVM applications, including APIs and microservices. It uses ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation to compute the information that your application needs before runtime, removing the need for reflection. The result is a significant decrease in runtime overhead and startup time, and a substantial increase in…
Read moreYou've built a React app, but now you need to deploy it. What do you do? First, it's probably best to choose a cloud provider as they're typically low-cost and easy to deploy to.
Read moreBuilding modern apps with Angular and Spring Boot is a common practice these days. In fact, if I use Google's Keyword Planner to look up popular search terms, it's one of the most popular combinations. The results in the list below are average monthly searches and not limited by location.
Read moreNode.js Login with Express and OIDC
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Node.js just celebrated its 11th birthday on May 27! With the state of things nows, it's pretty crazy to think back to the massive JavaScript Renaissance boost of 2009. In case you're not aware, the JavaScript Renaissance began in around 2004 with Ajax, increased exponentially with jQuery in the mid-2000s,…
Read moreOne of the more popular combinations of frontend and backend frameworks is Angular + Spring Boot. I've written several tutorials about how to combine the two—from keeping them as separate apps to combining them into a single artifact. But, what about deployment?
Read moreMobile development offers a lot of options. To develop native apps, you can use Java or Kotlin on Android. On iOS, you can use Objective C or Swift. There are other options, too. You can build hybrid mobile apps and Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). Hybrid mobile apps are those created…
Read moreIf you attend a lot of Java ecosystem conferences, you'll think that everyone uses microservices. It's a trendy topic, and developers everywhere are interested in learning about them. For a good reason too! Microservice architectures are a technique for delivering code faster.
Read moreI've been a longtime fan of CSS frameworks since 2005. I led an open-source project called AppFuse at the time and wanted a way to provide themes for our users. We used Mike Stenhouse's CSS Framework and held a design content to gather some themes we liked for our users.…
Read moreGatsby is a tool for creating static websites with React. It allows you to pull your data from virtually anywhere: content management systems (CMSs), Markdown files, APIs, and databases. Gatsby leverages GraphQL and webpack to combine your data and React code to generate static files for your website.
Read moreAngular is a web framework for building mobile and desktop applications. Its first version, AngularJS, was one of the first JavaScript MVC frameworks to dominate the web landscape. Developers loved it, and it rose to popularity in the early 2010s. AngularJS 1.0 was released on June 14, 2014. Angular 9…
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Read moreReact Native is a mobile app development framework that allows you to use React to build native iOS and Android mobile apps. Instead of using a web view and rendering HTML and JavaScript, it converts React components to native platform components. This means you can use React Native in your…
Read moreOn September 19, 2019, we held our first Okta Developer office hours. Our goal was to host a live Q&A with developers that use Okta. Over 150 developers attended!
Read moreSo you wanna go full reactive, eh? Great! Reactive programming is an increasingly popular way to make your applications more efficient. Instead of making a call to a resource and waiting on a response, reactive applications asynchronously receive a response. This allows them to free up processing power, only perform…
Read moreMicroservices have become a popular and effective design for scaling development teams in large companies. A microservices architecture enables you to build and deploy services independently, providing developers autonomy, enthusiasm, and a passion for their work. These benefits are realized because they feel a sense of control over their own…
Read more10 Myths About Java in 2019
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Java turned 24 years old on May 23, 2019. That's pretty old for a programming language. The fact that it's still widely used and runs many of the world's largest organizations is nothing short of incredible. But it has a unique impression problem among languages in that it means two…
Read moreI'm a big fan of Ionic. I started using it several years ago when it was based on AngularJS. As a developer, I really liked it because I knew Angular. I found didn't have to learn much more to be a productive developer with Ionic.
Read moreIonic allows you to develop PWAs and hybrid mobile apps. PWAs are web applications that run in a browser and allow for offline capabilities via service workers. They can be installed on desktops and mobile devices, just like you install apps on your smartphone. Hybrid mobile apps are like native…
Read moreDeveloping a microservice architecture with Java and Spring Boot is quite popular these days. It's definitely one of the most popular combinations in the Java ecosystem. If you need any proof, just look at all of the similar frameworks that have cropped up in the last few years: MicroProfile, Micronaut,…
Read moreJava is a great language to use when developing a microservice architecture. In fact, some of the biggest names in our industry use it. Have you ever heard of Netflix, Amazon, or Google? What about eBay, Twitter, and LinkedIn? Yes, major companies handling incredible traffic are doing it with Java.
Read moreSchematics is a tool from the Angular team that allows you to manipulate projects with code. You can create files, update existing files, and add dependencies to any project that has a package.json file. That's right, Schematics aren't only for Angular projects!
Read moreIf you've been a Java developer for more than 15 years, you probably remember when there were a plethora of Java web frameworks. It started with Struts and WebWork. Then Tapestry, Wicket, and JSF came along and championed the idea of component-based frameworks. Spring MVC was released in 2004 (in…
Read morePro Tips for Developer Relations, Part 2
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Being a developer advocate can be a difficult job. Developer advocates are often responsible for writing blog posts, speaking at conferences, and helping developers use their company's products. If there's developer friction, it's an advocate's job to help educate their company about how to reduce it. Advocates are often recognized…
Read moreUsing unit and integration tests to verify your code quality is an excellent way to show you care about your code. I recently did a bunch of work in the popular JHipster open source project to upgrade it to use the latest release of Spring Security.
Read moreThere's a lot going on in the Java ecosystem lately. Now that major Java versions are released every six months, it can be difficult to keep up. Personally, I develop the majority of my Java applications using Spring Boot. Because of this, I was stuck on Java 8 until Spring…
Read moreDevelopers all have their favorite GitHub repositories. They have software projects that they love and watch closely for the latest changes. In this tutorial, you'll create a simple CRUD application to save and to display your favorite GitHub open source projects. You will use Angular to implement the user interface…
Read moreBuilding a microservices architecture is possible with minimal code if you use Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Spring Cloud Config. Package everything up in Docker containers and you can run everything using Docker Compose. If you're communicating between services, you can ensure your services are somewhat secure by not exposing…
Read moreDevelopers love to automate things. It's what we do for a living for the most part. We create programs that take the tediousness out of tasks. I do a lot of presentations and live demos. Over the past year, I've noticed that some of my demos have too many steps…
Read moreDevnexus 2019: Join the <dev/>olution
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Hello, Developers! Have you ever been to the wonderful conference known as Devnexus? I attended for the first time two years ago and had a blast! It's well organized, affordable, and has a diverse and fun crowd.
Read moreWhat are i18n and l10n? Internationalization (i18n) is the process of making your application capable of rendering its text in multiple languages. Localization (l10n) means your application has been coded in such a way that it meets language, cultural, or other requirements of a particular locale. These requirements can include…
Read moreWhen I first started to learn Angular (it was called Angular 2 at the time), I was appalled by the number of files you needed to create to get a basic "Hello, World" example working. As Angular matured, a lot of this pain went away thanks to Angular CLI. Angular…
Read morePro Tips for Developer Relations
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I've been a professional developer advocate for a little over two years. I started out at Stormpath, and six months later, I leapt at the opportunity to do the same thing at Okta. I say "professional" because even though I've been a technical speaker since 2004, I never got paid…
Read moreWhich Java SDK Should You Use?
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There has been a lot of confusion lately about Java and its available SDKs (Software Development Kits). You might've heard the Java SDK called the JDK. They're one and the same. Java SE (Standard Edition) is a specification that's governed by the JCP (Java Community Process). This process decides what…
Read moreLearning Java as a First Language
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I started programming in Java way back in 1999. I had just started a job as the director of web development at a small startup called eDeploy.com. I wrote a lot of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for a SaaS product that helped companies install network equipment. The backend for our…
Read moreAngular 7 was released earlier this quarter and I'm pumped about a few of its features. If you've been following Angular since Angular 2, you know that upgrading can sometimes be a pain. There was no Angular 3, but upgrading to Angular 4 wasn't too bad, aside from a bunch…
Read moreVue is a web framework that's gotten a lot of attention lately because it's lean and mean. Its baseline framework cost is around 40K and is known as a minimalistic web framework. With all of the recent attention on web performance and mobile-first, mobile-fast, it's no surprise that Vue has…
Read moreSpring Boot 2.1 was recently released, eight months after the huge launch of Spring Boot 2.0. The reason I'm most excited about Spring Boot 2.1 to me is its improved performance and OpenID Connect (OIDC) support from Spring Security 5.1. The combination of Spring Boot and Spring Security has provided…
Read moreThree Developer Tools I'm Thankful For
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I ❤️ Thanksgiving. It's one of my favorite holidays. I love it because it's a time of reflection and gratitude. As an open source developer, I have a lot to be thankful for. Many of the tools I use are created by developers from around the world, and I get…
Read moreReact Native is a framework for building mobile applications with React. React allows you to use a declarative style of programming to describe how your UI should look. It uses embedded HTML (called JSX) to render buttons, lists, scrollable views, and many other components.
Read moreSpring WebFlux can be used to create a REST API with streaming data. Spring WebFlux can also be integrated with WebSockets to provide notifications that clients can listen to. Combining the two is a powerful way to provide real-time data streaming to JavaScript or mobile clients. Add React to the…
Read moreBuild Reactive APIs with Spring WebFlux
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Spring Boot 2.0 was a long-awaited release from the good folks at Pivotal. One of its new features is reactive web programming support with Spring WebFlux. Spring WebFlux is a web framework that's built on top of Project Reactor, to give you asynchronous I/O, and allow your application to perform…
Read moreReactive programming allows you to build systems that are resilient to high load. Handling lots of traffic isn't a problem because the server is non-blocking and doesn't block client processes to wait for responses. The client cannot directly observe, or synchronize with, the execution that occurs on the server. When…
Read moreElectron is a framework for building cross-platform desktop applications with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It was created for GitHub's Atom editor and has achieved widespread adoption since. Electron powers several apps that I use on a daily basis: Slack, Kitematic, and Visual Studio Code to name a…
Read moreJava EE allows you to build Java REST APIs quickly and easily with JAX-RS and JPA. Java EE is an umbrella standards specification that describes a number of Java technologies, including EJB, JPA, JAX-RS, and many others. It was originally designed to allow portability between Java application servers, and flourished…
Read moreTechnology moves fast these days. It can be challenging to keep up with the latest trends as well as new releases of your favorite projects. I'm here to help! Spring Boot and Angular are two of my favorite projects, so I figured I'd write y'all a guide to show you…
Read moreSpring Boot has dramatically simplified the development of Spring applications. Its autoconfiguration and starter dependencies reduce the amount of code and configuration you need to begin an app. If you were used to Spring and lots of XML back in the day, Spring Boot is a breath of fresh air.
Read moreA lot has happened in the last five years of software development. What it means to build, deploy, and orchestrate software has changed drastically. There's been a move from hosting software on-premise to public cloud and shift from virtual machines (VMs) to containers. Containers are cheaper to run than VMs…
Read moreI think you'll like the story I'm about to tell you. I'm going to show you how to build a GraphQL API with Vesper framework, TypeORM, and MySQL. These are Node frameworks, and I'll use TypeScript for the language. For the client, I'll use React, reactstrap, and Apollo Client to…
Read moreAt its core, React is just a UI toolkit, ala GWT, but it has a very healthy ecosystem around it that provides everything you need to build a kick-ass progressive web app (PWA). PWAs are cool because if they're done right, they can offer a native-like experience for your users,…
Read moreI've written several posts on this blog that show you how to develop an Angular SPA (single-page application) that talks to a Spring Boot API. In almost all of them, I've used OAuth 2.0's implicit flow and built, tested, and deployed them as separate applications. IMHO, this is the way…
Read moreSpring Boot has experienced massive adoption over the last several years. For Spring users, it offers a breath of fresh air, where they don't have to worry about how things are configured if they're comfortable with defaults. The Spring Boot ecosystem is filled with a wealth of what they call…
Read moreAngular 6: What's New, and Why Upgrade
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Angular 6 is now available and it's not a drop-in replacement for Angular 5. If you've been developing with Angular since Angular 2, you likely remember that it wasn't too difficult to upgrade to Angular 4 or Angular 5. In most projects, you could change the version numbers in your…
Read moreWriting apps with Spring Boot and Ionic (which is built on Angular) can be fun because both frameworks offer a good developer experience (DX). You change a file, save it, and the app automatically reloads with your changes. This feature is often called hot-reload and it's a blissful way to…
Read more"Productivity is all about efficiency and planning." -- Mahdi Yusuf, Iterate 2018
Read moreWith Okta and OpenID Connect (OIDC) you can easily integrate authentication into a React Native application and never have to build it yourself again. OIDC allows you to authenticate directly against the Okta API, and this article shows you how to do just that in a React Native application. Today…
Read moreDevelopers love sample applications. It's one thing to see the steps to create an application or feature; but when someone provides a working app you can just build and run it's simply fantastic. Open source is near and dear to many developers today. Many of the frameworks we use to…
Read moreJHipster is a development platform to generate, develop, and deploy Spring Boot + Angular web applications and Spring microservices. It supports using many types of authentication: JWT, session-based, and OAuth 2.0. In its 5.0 release, it added React as a UI option.
Read moreBuilding a microservices architecture with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud can allow your team to scale and develop software faster. It can add resilience and elasticity to your architecture that will enable it to fail gracefully and scale infinitely. All this is great, but you need continuous deployment and excellent…
Read moreWe 💙 Ionic, JHipster, and Java here at Okta. Ionic is a framework for building native mobile apps using web technologies. Technically, this is called a "hybrid" app because it's not using native SDKs. Hybrid mobile apps are distributed just like native apps: they can be installed on mobile devices,…
Read moreLocal Storage is a JavaScript API technically known as localStorage that arrived with HTML5. It allows you to store information on a user's browser quickly and easily. There are many debates on the web as to whether it's better than cookies. Some say it's faster (because it doesn't send data…
Read moreCryptocurrencies are all the rage. Over the last year, the value of Bitcoin alone has risen 1,603%, driving more and more people to wonder if they're missing out on the "next big thing." Because of the massive influx of money into cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, and Ripple — blockchain…
Read moreSpring Security is a powerful and highly customizable authentication and access-control framework. It is the de-facto standard for securing Spring-based applications.
Read moreReact has been getting a lot of positive press in the last couple years, making it an appealing frontend option for Java developers! Once you learn how it works, it makes a lot of sense and can be fun to develop with. Not only that, but it's wicked fast! If…
Read moreTechnology moves fast these days. It can be challenging to keep up with the latest trends as well as new releases of your favorite projects. I'm here to help! Spring Boot and Angular are two of my favorite projects, so I figured I'd write y'all a guide to show you…
Read moreI've fallen in love with Play Framework in the past, but then found a more attractive framework in Spring Boot. I fell in love partly because Play was new and sexy at the time, but also because it's "live reloading" of Java code was a killer feature I'd been looking…
Read moreUse OpenID Connect Support with JHipster
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Single sign-on (SSO) is a feature that most developers don't care about when building one-off applications for clients or themselves. However, when developing apps for their company, which will be used by employees of their business, they often need to hook into an existing identity provider. It might be Active…
Read moreLast month, I wrote about NoSQL Options for Java Developers. I analyzed the data available from a variety of sources (Indeed jobs, GitHub stars, Stack Overflow tags) to pick the top five options: MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, Neo4j, and PostgreSQL. After writing this article, I shared it with a few experts…
Read moreA "hipster" is defined as a person who is exceptionally aware of or interested in the latest trends and tastes. JHipster is an open source project whose name stands for "Java Hipster." If you're using JHipster, chances are you're aware of and using the latest trends and techniques in Java…
Read moreI love my job as a developer advocate at Okta. I get to learn a lot, write interesting blog posts and create example apps with cool technologies like Kotlin, TypeScript, Spring Boot, and Angular, which I'm about to demo. When it comes to writing Hello World apps with authentication, I…
Read moreI'll happily admit that like many of you, I'm a lazy developer. I tend to look for solutions someone else has already built before I try to build them myself. In the "old days" of the early 2000s, I used to spend a lot more time coding solutions myself. But…
Read moreNoSQL Options for Java Developers
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The Java community is one I know and love, so even though a NoSQL database is rarely tied to a language I'm writing this article for you, Java developers around the world. In this article, I'll show you several options for NoSQL databases. After exploring all the options, I'll narrow…
Read moreBuild an Ionic App with User Authentication
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With Okta and OpenID Connect (OIDC) you can easily integrate authentication into an Ionic application, and never have to build it yourself again. OIDC allows you to authenticate directly against the Okta API, and this article shows you how to do just that in an Ionic application. I'll demo how…
Read moreWhat is Developer Relations at Okta?
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Okta is investing heavily into making developers successful by creating great developer experiences through updated SDKs and integrations as well as new pricing and packaging. These updates are intended to give developers everything they need to build modern, secure applications. But equally important is how Okta speaks to developers. How…
Read moreYou've built a microservices architecture with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud. You're happy with the results, and you like how it adds resiliency to your application. You're also pleased with how it scales and how different teams can deploy microservices independently. But what about security?
Read moreProgressive Web Apps, aka PWAs, are the best way for developers to make their webapps load faster and more performant. In a nutshell, PWAs are websites that use recent web standards to allow for installation on a user's computer or device, and deliver an app-like experience to those users.
Read moreWhat the Heck is OAuth?
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There's a lot of confusion around what OAuth actually is.
Read moreJHipster is one of those open-source projects you stumble upon and immediately think, "Of course!" It combines three very successful frameworks in web development: Bootstrap, Angular, and Spring Boot. Bootstrap was one of the first dominant web-component frameworks. Its largest appeal was that it only required a bit of HTML…
Read moreAdopting a microservice architecture provides unique opportunities to add failover and resiliency to your systems, so your components can handle load spikes and errors gracefully. Microservices make change less expensive too. It can also be a good idea when you have a large team working on a single product. Your…
Read moreAdd Authentication to Your Angular PWA
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You're developing a Progressive Web Application (PWA), and your service worker and web app manifest are working swimmingly. You've even taken the time to deploy it to a server with HTTPS, and you're feeling pretty good about things. But wait, you don't have any way of knowing who your users…
Read moreYou already know that building APIs with Spring Boot is incredibly easy. But, your API isn't complete without a UI, right? Well, building UIs with Ionic is pretty easy too, especially if you know Angular!
Read moreAn October 2016 DoubleClick report found 53% of visits are abandoned if a mobile site takes more than 3 seconds to load. That same report said the average mobile sites load in 19 seconds. According to Alex Russell in his recent talk on the state of mobile development, one of…
Read moreTo simplify development and deployment, you want everything in the same artifact, so you put your Angular app "inside" your Spring Boot app, right? But what if you could create your Angular app as a standalone app and make cross-origin requests to your API? Hey guess what, you can do…
Read moreAngular (formerly called Angular 2.0) is quickly becoming one of the most powerful ways to build a modern single-page app. A core strength is Angular's focus on building reusable components, which help you decouple the various concerns in your application. Take authentication, for example: it can be painful to build,…
Read moreAngularJS reigned as king of JavaScript MVC frameworks for several years. However, when the Angular team announced they would not provide backwards compatibility for their next version, there was a bit of a stir in its community, giving opportunities for frameworks like React and Vue.js to flourish. Fast forward a…
Read moreIf you're building a Spring Boot application, you'll eventually need to add user authentication. You can do this with OAuth 2.0 (henceforth: OAuth). OAuth is a standard that applications can use to provide client applications with "secure delegated access". It works over HTTP and authorizes devices, APIs, servers, and applications…
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