I love the new Github Actions and all the options it gives to automate things in my workflow such as automating CICD. When i got added to the beta i wanted to try out if i could create a full CICD pipeline that would first build my code and release it afterwards to Azure. I used Azure DevOps quite a lot in the past and what i loved there was the separation between build and release steps where build creates an immutable artifact that will be deployed in the release stage. I wanted to recreate something similar so my approach was the following: Create a build workflow that compiles my code Let ..read more

When i’m building apps that consume APIs (so that’s basically every app i built..) i want to test out these APIs by hand to see how/if they work as intended and what the exact responses are. To do this i love to use the VSCode plugin called “REST Client“. This plugin makes it super easy to test API calls and one of the great benefits is that it stores all the information in plain text files so i can store them together with my code in git. Quite often the APIs i want to test need some for of authentication and OAuth 2 is a very common scenario. Lately i was working with APIs from Azure and th ..read more

Integrating your application with Azure Active Directory using OAuth shouldn’t be to hard at first sight. I have done this many times with different development technologies like Asp.Net, Xamarin etc, but this week i had to do it for an Angular app for the first time. There is quite some information and docs to be found on this subject but a lot of them are outdated and it took me longer than expected so that’s why i decided to write up how i got it to work, step by step. So here is a description of what we’ll create in this post: Create an angular app from scratch using the Angular Cli and m ..read more