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April 1, 2025 at 3:18 AM

Jonathan Gamble

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Sharing Custom Rune Classes with SvelteKit

Following my last article on Svelte 5 Runes, there are cases when you need to add custom...

February 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM

Jonathan Gamble

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I've been scratching my head trying to find a way to drag and drop sort in Svelte. I build some...

Svelte 5 and SortableJS

February 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM

Jonathan Gamble

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January 27, 2025 at 1:41 AM

Jonathan Gamble

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Sharing Runes in Svelte 5 with the Rune Class

I generally don't use classes in any TypeScript I write. I believe functions make things simpler, and...

January 16, 2025 at 2:46 AM

Jonathan Gamble

@jdgamble555.bsky.social

Async Fetching in Svelte 5

When you want to fetch something in Svelte, the recommended method is to put it in the load...

dev.to/jdgamble555/... #Angular

November 15, 2024 at 7:44 PM

Jonathan Gamble

@jdgamble555.bsky.social

Are Angular Resolvers on Life Support ?

I was scrolling through Tech Twitter a few months back, when I saw this tweet by the infamous...

code.build/p/firestore-... #firestore #firebase

November 15, 2024 at 3:36 AM

Jonathan Gamble

@jdgamble555.bsky.social

Firestore Tree Data Model

We often need to model tree data in Firestore. Nested comments, categories, graphs, and groups are just some examples. Modeli

code.build/p/passwordle... #firebase #firestore #passwordless

September 22, 2024 at 2:01 PM

Jonathan Gamble

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Passwordless Login in Firebase

I’m a huge fan of passwordless login. You will notice I do not have any articles on creating, resetting, or changing a passwo

code.build/p/handling-u...
#firebase, #firestore

September 15, 2024 at 4:02 PM

Jonathan Gamble

@jdgamble555.bsky.social

Handling Usernames in Firestore

Most modern apps need usernames. We don’t want to share our email addresses publicly, using a long user ID would look odd. Fi

#firebase, #firestore

code.build/p/firestore-...

September 8, 2024 at 1:42 PM

Jonathan Gamble

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Firestore Fuzzy Full-Text Search

After years of getting different ideas for self-indexing search using Firestore, I have finally reached a usable conclusion t

code.build/p/firestore-...
#firebase, #firestore, #vector

September 1, 2024 at 1:51 PM

Jonathan Gamble

@jdgamble555.bsky.social

Firestore Full-Text Vector Search

With the AI revolution, Vector Databases have become popular. Almost every big database that didn’t already have the option h

code.build/p/firebase-n... - #firebase, #firestore

August 25, 2024 at 4:09 PM

Jonathan Gamble

@jdgamble555.bsky.social

Firebase Now Works on the Server

When Firebase was released, before Google even owned the company, you didn’t need to fetch anything on the server. Over 10 ye

Forcing Angular SSR to Wait in 2024

August 18, 2024 at 3:31 PM

Jonathan Gamble

@jdgamble555.bsky.social

dev.to/jdgamble555/... @angular

Angular has had a built-in way to wait on your functions to load, and you didn't know about it! ...

Firebase Storage User Profile Image

July 10, 2024 at 12:31 AM

Jonathan Gamble

@jdgamble555.bsky.social

code.build/p/firebase-s... - Firebase Uploading with #svelte example!

Many database platforms handle authentication with the database functions, but not many have built-in storage capabilities. F

code.build/p/inner-join...

June 23, 2024 at 5:20 PM

Jonathan Gamble

@jdgamble555.bsky.social

Inner Joins with Firebase Functions

Because Firestore is a NoSQL database, you can’t use joins like in SQL. You must plan your queries when you write your data,

code.build/p/update-fir...

June 2, 2024 at 1:21 PM

Jonathan Gamble

@jdgamble555.bsky.social

Update Firebase Email with Reauthentication

Updating an email or password is handled differently in Firebase than updating a user’s profile name or photo URL. There is a

code.build/p/how-to-upd...

May 29, 2024 at 2:03 PM

Jonathan Gamble

@jdgamble555.bsky.social

How to Update a User Profile in Firebase

Firebase Authentication is its own Database, separate from Firestore. You can use it securely with any database you like to h

code.build/p/svelte-5-t...

May 12, 2024 at 7:27 PM

Jonathan Gamble

@jdgamble555.bsky.social

Svelte 5 Todo App with Firebase

Svelte 5 is coming very soon since it has hit the *Release Candidate* stage. Svelte 5 now has “runes,” Svelte’s version of si

code.build/p/firestore-...

May 8, 2024 at 1:48 PM

Jonathan Gamble

@jdgamble555.bsky.social

Firestore Security Rules Example Guide

I want you to learn “how to write Firebase Rules” rather than what specific rules you need to write. Once you understand what

code.build/p/solidjs-fi...

May 5, 2024 at 1:59 PM

Jonathan Gamble

@jdgamble555.bsky.social

SolidJS Firebase Todo App

I figured SolidJS would be just like React, but it’s not. It’s way better. I had a few learning curves but got my app up and

code.build/p/local-deve...

May 1, 2024 at 2:09 PM

Jonathan Gamble

@jdgamble555.bsky.social

Local Development with Firebase Emulators

I noticed there are many articles about creating unit tests with Firestore Emulators, but I find them most useful for buildin

code.build/p/remix-todo...

April 28, 2024 at 1:32 PM

Jonathan Gamble

@jdgamble555.bsky.social

Remix Todo App with Firebase

After creating my Todo App multiple times for other Frameworks, I figured creating it for Remix would be easy. After all, I h

Firestore Query and Mutation Patterns

April 24, 2024 at 1:30 PM

Jonathan Gamble

@jdgamble555.bsky.social

code.build/p/firestore-... - Continuing the Firebase posts...

Since Firebase released the Web Modular API in Firebase 9, queries have been handled faster, bundles are smaller due to *Tree

code.build/p/creating-a...

April 21, 2024 at 2:36 PM

Jonathan Gamble

@jdgamble555.bsky.social

Creating a Firestore User Document on Sign-Up

When a user logs in to most Firebase apps, the first thing your app needs to do is create a user document. There are ways to