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Generative AI has been all the rage since the introduction of ChatGPT at the end of 2022. While ChatGPT wasn’t the first generative AI nor even the only concept for AI, it was the first to be widely publicized and…

Here’s a basic tutorial for creating a React app that queries the Alpha Vantage API to display the last day’s stock price for a given symbol. Please note that you’ll need to sign up for a Alpha Vantage API key…

I had a .NET Web Forms project I was working on, and when running the site locally, I would attempt to navigate to one of the pages, and I kept getting an exception: DataReader.GetFieldType(n) returned null. There weren't any other details or any additional insights to be gained from the stack trace, as it ended literally right at the function I was calling where the exception was being thrown rather than giving any further info as to what system or library calls were being made inside that function. After doing some research and experimentation, there were a few key things I needed to do in order to fix this error.

Introduction A REST API (sometimes also called a “web API” or just “API”) is a web standard for creating API (Application Programming Interface) services. REST APIs allow communication between different software systems and enable the transfer of data over HTTP…

Introduction I have worked on a couple different teams that were moving from .NET Web Forms to React to keep up with the latest changes in web technology. While I’ve spent much more time in React than in Web Forms,…

I ran into an interesting problem while converting a React app from JavaScript to TypeScript when I ran into some code using array notation to access object fields. The project I was working on had an object defined as follows.…

Introduction At some point in your work in React, you’ll likely inherit a project that was built in JavaScript and find that you want to start using TypeScript. I’m not going to go into the details of TypeScript vs JavaScript…

Check out this github repo for an example What is Redux? Redux is a very popular framework for managing application-level state in React apps. It is an open-source project that has evolved over time to make managing state simpler. Previous…

Introduction When building a UI for a new React app, it’s often hard to determine how exactly to start. Starting from a React template can be a great way to go. It gives you inspiration on where to start and…

Creating a new React app When creating a React app using a .gitignore file is provided and ignores the common files that should not be included in your source repository. The default file will contain the following: This .gitignore really…