Building a Generic RSS Parser Service with Cloudflare Workers / / No Comments About once every three months I’ll write a quick JavaScript demo and attempt to fetch someone’s RSS feed… and then remember that the vast majority of RSS feeds don’t specify a CORS header to allow remote scripts to load them. I know this – and yet I still tend to forget. I thought it would be kind of fun to build a serverless API via Cloudflare Workers to handle loading, parsing, and returning a RSS feed with CORS allowed. I figured this would be pretty easy, but I ran into a snag right away. Workers and NPM Modules # Cloudflare Workers is Node.js compatible… with some issues. Cloudflare has a documentation page on it addressing what you may run into, and for... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: building, Cloudflare, Generic, Parser, service, workers
Building an API to List Cloudinary Images in a Folder / / No Comments I was preparing to work on a Cloudinary and Apline post when I realized I needed something before I could build that demo – a list of images in a Cloudinary folder. While this is directly supported by their SDKs and REST APIs, I needed something that could be used in a public-facing web application. So with that in mind, I turned to Pipedream to build a serverless endpoint. Here’s how I did it. Raymond Camden… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: building, Cloudinary, Folder, images, List
Building a Placeholder Web Component with No External Dependencies / / No Comments As my readers can tell, I’m on something of a web component kick, and while I’m enjoying building silly examples, today I wanted to share one I thought might actually be useful – a placeholder component that doesn’t use any external services. Raymond Camden… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: building, Component, Dependencies, External, Placeholder
Building a Web View of a Public Google Drive Folder / / No Comments I’m working on a project to help with local initiatives and as part of that effort, I needed to look into creating a nice way to display, make available, etc., files stored in Google Drive. Google Drive lets you make a folder public, and to be honest, the interface isn’t too hard to use. I’ve got a folder you can open yourself at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FYLaoscxWBV_BU5sFouf7XCrv7cKktBY?usp=sharing. Here’s how it looks if you don’t want to click. Raymond Camden… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: building, Drive, Folder, Google, public, View
Building a Web-Based Badge Scanner / / No Comments I’m at a conference now working a booth (well, at least when I started writing this), and I really didn’t realize how much I enjoyed this part of the job. While I’ve attended a few conferences post COVID (err, well, "post" may be too strong of a word), this is the first booth I’ve worked at in years. One of the first things I did when I arrived was check and see how we were going to get contacts via badge scanning. Not surprisingly, the conference organizers suggested a native app. Me being me – I immediately thought of how the app’s features could be accomplished via the web. There’s nothing wrong with the... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Badge, building, scanner, Webbased
Building a Quiz with Eleventy and Eleventy Serverless / / No Comments A few days ago, I was thinking about what a "quiz" would look like in Eleventy. I put that in quotes because there’s a lot of different ways you can think of quizzes and how they’re built. For my demo, I set my list of features to the following: Raymond Camden… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: building, Eleventy, Quiz, Serverless
Building Table Sorting and Pagination in Alpine.js / / No Comments A few months back, I realized that one of my most popular blog posts (Building Table Sorting and Pagination in Vue.js) would be an excellent opportunity to update for a more plain (or vanilla if you will) JavaScript version. That post (Building Table Sorting and Pagination in JavaScript) was pretty fun to write. As much as I enjoyed using Vue over the past few years, I find myself more and more trying to rely less on external frameworks and sticking to simpler methods of getting things done. That being said… I am also really intrigued by Alpine.js. Raymond Camden… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Alpine.js, building, Pagination, Sorting, table
Building Table Sorting and Pagination in JavaScript / / No Comments As part of my job in managing this blog, I check my stats frequently, and I’ve noticed that some of my more basic Vue.js articles have had consistently good traffic for quite some time. As I find myself doing more and more with "regular" JavaScript (sometimes referred to as "Vanilla JavaScript", but I’m not a fan of the term) I thought it would be a good idea to update those old posts for folks who would rather skip using a framework. With that in mind, here is my update to my post from over four years ago, Building Table Sorting and Pagination in Vue.js Raymond Camden… more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: building, JavaScript, Pagination, Sorting, table