An Ionic app keeps running at http://localhost:8100 in a particular browser (very likely Chrome). It does not load in other browsers, neither can you curl nor telnet to it. You cannot find any process listening on TCP port 8100. You restart your computer, the app is still running! You uncommented / enabled serviceWorker in your Ionic app. Particularly this piece of code: [code] <script> if (' ...

So, what's the point of .bind() when we already have .apply() and .call()? For those not familiar with .bind(), .apply(), and .call(), here is a quick summary with this object [code] var fruit = { name: 'Apple' } [/code] and this function [code] function showDetails(size, price) { console.log(this.name + ' ' + size + ': $' + price + '/kg') } [/code] on mind. All three of them are function meth ...

One of the best features of GitHub Pages (Jekyll) is its ability to converted code blocks within ``` to a pre-formatted HTML code section. For example, this is how you mark a section of JavaScript code. [code] ```js var s = 'Hi'; ``` [/code] Till recently (before Jekyll 3.x), the corresponding HTML code section used to be like the following: [code] <pre> <code class="language-js">var s = 'Hi';</code> </pre> [/code] This allowed us to use mostly a ...

While trying to build your React Native Android app, if you get the following error: [code] :app:installDebug FAILED FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. * What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':app:installDebug'. > com.android.builder.testing.api.DeviceException: com.android.ddmlib.InstallException: Unable to upload some APKs * Try: Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. BUILD FAILED Tota ...

If you have setup the Android development environment for React Native as instructed, and were trying to run your first React Native Android app, but get the "failed to find Build Tools" error: [code] FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. * What went wrong: A problem occurred configuring project ':app'. > failed to find Build Tools revision 23.0.1 * Try: Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. BUILD FAIL ...