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Hey. My name is Eike and I’m a software engineer that is keen to develop new software and I’m always looking for improvements.

On this website (and the subsequent pages), I try to give insights into things I’ve learned recently and challenges I faced during developing my various applications.

I’m open to all sorts of feedback and critics.

Following, you’ll find some posts that explain different stuff such as my CORS issues or the deployment of a react app to a static web host. Note that these are my personal experiences with the different technologies and challenges, I’ve faced. The posts are under regular changes since I’m learning new stuff every day.

  • Cookies – Delicious and useful to store data

    Cookies are necessary to store data on a website, e.g., a JWT to validate that the user is who he claims to be. Furthermore, we can store sensible data that are used for displaying information such as user information. In my frontend, I’m using cookie-js to store and manage different kind of cookies. To deploy…

  • CORS – Cross-Origin Resource-Sharing is my best friend

    Deploying the backend separately from the frontend (on different servers) has to deal with CORS, the Cross-Origin fun. Personally, CORS and I are not best friends but we are getting along with each other. What does CORS do? CORS enables secure requests and data transfers from server to client and vise-versa. It is best to…

  • Deploy react app on static web host

    Deploying a react app is an important step to get your frontend / backend to the your customers. The deployment can be performed differently, using a web host that allows to run node or using a static web host that only allows to run rudimentary javascript and HTML. Following, I’ll describe my journey to get…

  • Connect Cloud Run and Cloud SQL PostgreSQL

    While developing an application that is deployed in Google Cloud Run and uses a PostgreSQL database provided by Google Cloud SQL, I faced several issues. Here are my learnings from connecting a Cloud Run application and Cloud SQL. Notes: I’m developing a NodeJS backend application. I’m using Prisma to access and migrate a database. Furthermore,…

  • Hello world!

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