Posts by Luis Aviles

YouTube is, without any doubt, one of the most popular websites for video-sharing today. It’s really easy to upload any video format and share it with your friends. Also, the YouTube team provides an API Reference to let you embed a YouTube video on any website and, of course,…

Raise your hand if you have ever seen the following error in your browser’s console: GET http://localhost:8001/favicon.ico 404 (Not Found) This error usually happens if you haven’t defined a favicon for your website. In this Media Jam, we’ll explain how to add a custom icon for any web application that…

In previous posts, I explained how to upload images, and render them in the browser using a Drag & Drop component written in Angular and TypeScript. That project has considered a secure cloud storage system for the uploaded files, provided by Cloudinary. However, that solution didn’t consider Authenticated…

There is no doubt that we’re living in an era in which images and videos are an important part of modern web applications. For example, it is very common to find a requirement to upload images for a photo gallery, or to upload a photo for your profile. In this…

Web Components have been around for a couple of years now. According to the most recent MDN documentation: Web Components is a suite of technologies that allow you to create custom elements, whose functionality is encapsulated and separated from the rest of the source code, for use in…

Web Performance is something that is becoming more important every day for users and developers. When the user enters a website, they can get impatient if it does not load within a few seconds and eventually leave the site. Let’s say you’re developing a web application that involves…

In a previous post, I explained the main aspects of uploading images and rendering them in the browser through a Drag & Drop component written in Angular and TypeScript. In this MediaJam we’ll use the same Angular project as a starting point to enable the files uploading in a…