Although testing doesn’t always sound like the most enjoyable part of building applications I was happy to discover a wealth of great documentation on using Jest to test React apps. (Nothing gets me pumped up the same as great documentation…) I tried to avoid most of the blogs and focus on learning from the official docs. Here’s what I’ve digested from these resources:
I followed this tutorial to setup Amazon Polly and Cognito. This configuration allows the frontend to interact directly with AWS services. The tutorial is pretty straightforward, but I’ve documented a few deviations here.
I’m excited to get started building a new language learning tool with MERN, Amazon Transcribe and Amazon Polly. Here’s some of my first steps in setting up the MERN stack!
With my background in Mandarin Chinese I thought I would explore developing apps on a hugely popular platform for mainland China.
When recently building a Rails API/Javascript app i discovered that session cookies are not built into the Rails API controller. I found this guide very helpful in solving the problem but it did not contain all of the details I needed to get this functionality working.