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3D-Spotify Web Music Player How to create your very own “eye-candy” Spotify Music Player. Published  about 8 hours ago · 3 min read [ReactJS] what you should definitely have in your toolbox — from 0 to 90 in 1’ [How to] break your work in reusable parts Published  on Jul 9 · 4 min read Make Google assistant to assist your users How to setup Google assistant’s Actions, Serverless, to assist your app users for free. Published  on Apr 20 · 5 min read · In  Chatbots Life

[ReactJS] what you should definitely have in your toolbox - from 0 to 90 in 1'

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[ReactJS] what you should definitely have in your toolbox — from 0 to 90 in 1’ Adjust your development setup to your comfort not fashion The problem I was getting around ReactJS to cook a complete PoC (Proof of Concept) with a simple REST API , seasoning Automation to taste … Being new to ReactJS and Docker… happy to see a plethora of tutorials , boiler plates and guides to help the setup and delivery of an end-to-end optimized and scalable platform. But… no , I am not really happy(!?) Things move fast, they get outdated 📆 even faster and the valid possible ways to do something, are getting exponentially more 📈🥶. The research Most of the guides are narrow scoped, well written, but not complete. I was too new to all this to get my head around on what’s simple rather than just fancy . All I wanted, was just a simple setup to get something meaningful up and running, that I won’t have to throw away later for a another new little PoC project. My head, after a litt

Make Google assistant to assist your users

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How to setup Google assistant's Actions, Serverless, to assist your app users for free. Photo by  BENCE BOROS  on  Unsplash Modern platforms have more than one entry point to provide data to a user. They provide consistency and performance amongst other features. Happy times. Assuming there is a nice architecture and some best practices in place. Google assistant has great improvements over the past few months, in terms of documentation and the API usage, in various aspects. I am going to describe an easy way to help you leverage the basics of Google assistant for your platform. Just in a few steps, consuming the free versions of some Google APIs. Presumably, you can replace any part of these steps to integrate with your own application. Overview The Google assistant will be based on Intents defined in "Actions console". Directly from there, we will be deploying "Cloud Functions" and "Intents" for our Assistant to ask for user inpu