I normally use MAMP or Vagrant but recently I have been working exclusively with node and wanted to easily create a http server using ssl mainly for quick prototypes. First setup your project create a directory cd into that directory and run. npm init -y npm i http-server Now setup...
In this post I will be outlining how to test your ElectronJS Apps with spectron and mocha. First to get started we need to install spectron. !!!!IMPORTANT!!!!! this threw me for a while with compatibility issues go to the GitHub page and make sure you are using a spectron version...
In this post we will talk about securing your source code for an ElectronJS desktop app. First lets decompile an electron js app. Navigate to your app in the Applications folder right click and Show package contents. Navigate into Contents and Resources. Drag the Resources folder into terminal. You can...
This article will discuss how to notarize an ElectronJS I will add to this article it is mainly for me. First login to you apple members account and create your app identifier. https://developer.apple.com/account/resources/identifiers/list You will be using this in your notarize.js file and package.json You also need to generate a...
Little function to grab the mime type from a video url, using it in one of my apps will continue to add to it. function getMimeType(url) { var ext = url.split(/[#?]/)[0].split('.').pop().trim(); switch (ext) { case 'mp4': return 'video/mp4' break; case 'mov': return 'video/quicktime' break; case 'flv': return 'video/x-flv' break; case...
This tutorial is mainly to remind me how to setup Android Studio emulator for React Native. I havent done much mobile development for while and in the past I have used Appcelerator with Genymotion for my Android development as I am on a Mac. First of the tutorial I have...
In this post I wanted to discuss what service like Youtube are really doing to prevent copyrighted content on their platform. YouTube has a huge amount of copyrighted videos on their platform and I will be the first to admit I watch some of it. My main vice is The...
Git has recently announced that at the beginning August 13, 2021, they will no longer accept account passwords when authenticating Git operations on GitHub.com. Panic sets in!!!!!! Don't panic its pretty easy. You can read up about the updates here. https://github.blog/2020-12-15-token-authentication-requirements-for-git-operations/ I needed to setup a new repo and had...
Building many plugins for VideoJS I have a bitrate switching plugin that has been used extensively. The plugin mainly focused on HLS representations and I was accessing the representations with the following code. var player = videojs('my_video_1'); player.one('loadedmetadata', function(_event) { var reps = player.vhs.representations(); console.log(reps); }); I then looped through...
Recently I needed to debug a cronjob I have setup. It is not as easy as just running the job sometimes you need to know exactly where the error is coming from. I find this the easiest way by far to find out what going on. Create a cronjob time...
