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Making my project Password-less! 🚫🔑

John — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 23:00:49 +0000

Welcome Back, 🖐

In this article I'm going to explain why I will not use a standard Sign-in/Sign-up method for app authentication!

Ready? Lets get started 😁

Why we're going Password-less:

💾 Passwords take away a lot of storage that could be used to store something else.
🔑 Everyone knows this, people use the same passwords for multiple websites/apps.
🤔 People forget there passwords from time to time, this means you will need to create a re-set password system.
🚀 Big technology company's are doing the same, I don't really like looking at what others are doing but if you do a quick Google search on tech companies going Password-less you will find a lot of information.

What do I mean when I say Password-less?

When a new user creates an account they will not be able to create a Password! Simple right?

How do users sign-in?
On the sign-in form the user will enter there Email Address or Phone Number they used to create there account, after they clicked "Sign in" the backend server will send a 6-8 digit code to there Phone number or Email Address depending on witch one they entered. Next a text input will display where the user can enter the code they received.

Creating a Password-less app is way easier to build and manage then one with passwords, at lest in my opinion! ✌️

I would love to hear what you have to say, lets talk in the Comments!!! 😀

DynamoDB or PostgreSQL???

John — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 19:20:23 +0000

I love both but don't know witch to use for my project!

I've already made the decision not to use MySQL but I also don't want to be locked when migrating out of AWS if I ever need to when using DynamoDB. Using PostgreSQL could potentially be more expensive in the start if I use AWS RDS!

A solution might be to have a LightSail or EC2 instance run both PostgreSQL and the application, but is this a good idea?

What do you think?

Building a Blogging Platform, but Why?

John — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 00:34:41 +0000

Hey everyone, ✌️
Hope your all having a great day!

This is my first DEV post so I'm super excited to share what I'm currently working on.

From the Title you can probably guess what this post is about so why am I building a Blogging Platform?

Because, why not? Just kidding the answer isn't so simple, recently I've been looking for a static site generator, although there are many great solutions I really wanted a lightweight, highly customizable, simple to use & a framework that is 100% dedicated to blogging.
Turns out that I could not find a solution that I was satisfied with!

So what features will my blogging platform have that others don't? - See down below!

Features

Open Source with the MIT License
Default Config options for Amplify, Cloudflare Workers Sites, Docker with nginx, Firebase, GitHub Pages, GitLab Pages, Netlify, Render, Surge & Vercel - Wow, 😳 that's a lot of Hosting Providers
Easy installation from NPM
Automatic SEO
Prebuilt theme with customization options or if you'd like you can just create a theme from scratch if that's something your into
Simple Prebuilt website UI

And more...

Obviously this project is not public yet, but I hope to release it to Github as soon as possible!

As always have fun!!! 🥳