In this blog post I present a complete example of how to upload an image to Amazon S3 bucket all the way from frontend implemented in Angular to the backend implemented with NodeJS/ExpressJS. This is based on a real use case running in production at the www.bookmarks.dev : once you register for an account you have the possibility to change your profile picture with something more personal at user settings.

Source code for bookmarks.dev is available on Github - Star

So let’s jump into the tutorial

This blog post presents the steps required to connect to the MySql database from the command line and modify the size of a column in a table. The example is based on the MySql database that is backing Keycloak to run www.bookmarks.dev. For a setup of the environment you can see the wiki article Keycloak MySQL Setup

Recently I’ve taken the time to update the API documentation for bookmarks.dev. I used the Swagger 2.0 (aka OAS 2) before and I decided to update to OpenAPI Specification (OAS) 3. In this post I will highlight the main points about the process and documenting the API with OAS 3. Some points might still apply to the former OAS 2 (fka Swagger) documentation, but they are worth mentioning since I hadn’t payed enough attention before and I find them useful.

You can find the OAS 3 specification for bookmarks.dev on Github and the result is available at bookmarks.dev/api/docs/

Here are the key takeaways.

In this short blog post I will show you how to call the Youtube Data API v3 to get information about youtube videos. I am especially interested in the video duration, description, title, tags and publication date attributes. This is the metadata I use to automagically bookmark youtube videos.

Source code for this article can be found on Github

I found myself lately adding more StackOverflow questions to my dev bookmarks collection, so I took the challenge over the weekend to make this experience more pleasant. In this blog post I will present you the result - improve auto completion of bookmark attributes on creation, login with Stackoverflow account and visual hinting for stackoverflow bookmarks.