Background Transfer Service in iOS 7 SDK: How To Download File in Background

16 AWS Gotchas

16 AWS Gotchas In January I launched the MVP for my own startup, Proximistyle , which helps you find what you’re looking for nearby. On advice from friends and industry contacts I chose AWS as my cloud provider. Having never had to set up my own cloud infrastructure before, the learning curve to get from no experience to a stable VPC system I was happy with was significantly steeper than expected, and had its fair share of surprises. #1 Take advantage of the free resources offered AWS offers a free tier for new accounts. If you have recently bought a domain and set up a company you qualify for the free tier for a year. Additionally, if you are a bootstrapped startup you can apply for the Startup Builders package and get $1000 in AWS credits. After doing the above, you’re now ready to get started with setting up the AWS infrastructure for your startup. #2 Set up billing budgets and alerting The very first thing you should do after setting up billing, is enabling a budge...

Ultimate Folder Structure For Your React Native Project

Ultimate Folder Structure For Your React Native Project React native project structure React Native is a flexible framework, giving developers the freedom to choose their code structure. However, this can be a double-edged sword for beginners. Though it offers ease of coding, it can soon become challenging to manage as your project expands. Thus, a structured folder system can be beneficial in many ways like better organization, simplified module management, adhering to coding practices, and giving a professional touch to your project. This write-up discusses a version of a folder arrangement that I employ in my React Native projects. This structure is based on best practices and can be modified to suit the specific needs of your project. Before we get into the project structure let’s give credit to @sanjay who has the original idea of the structure but I modify his version of the code, to make it better. Base library axios — For network calling. react-navigation ...

Master Map & Filter, Javascript’s Most Powerful Array Functions

Master Map & Filter, Javascript’s Most Powerful Array Functions Learn how Array.map and Array.filter work by writing them yourself This article is for those who have written a for loop before, but don’t quite understand how Array.map or Array.filter work. You should also be able to write a basic function. By the end of this, you’ll have a complete understanding of both functions, because you’ll have seen how they’re written. Array.map Array.map is meant to transform one array into another by performing some operation on each of its values. The original array is left untouched and the function returns a new, transformed array. For example, say we have an array of numbers and we want to multiply each number by three . We also don’t want to change the original array. To do this without Array.map , we can use a standard for-loop. for-loop var originalArr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]; var newArr = []; for(var i = 0; i < originalArr.length; i+...

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