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Text Detection using Tesseract.js

In this blog post i will be going over using Tesseract.js for text detection in images. First think you need to do is install the tesseract.js module with npm. Navigate to your projects directory and enter.


React Google Map Component

Today we will be taking a look at how to use a library called react-google-maps. We will be building a simple reusable component to leverage this library. To get started cd to an appropriate folder for your project in the terminal and run.


Ionic React todo list

Today we will be exploring the Ionic framework. Ionic is a great tool for developing cross platform apps(web, iOS, android). Ionic is traditionally used with angular however ionic/react is in beta and should be released soon. To start off cd into an appropriate folder to hold your project and enter.


React Native GeoLocation

Today we are going to take a look at the Geolocation API for React-Native. The geolocation api exists on the global navigator object in React Native, just like on the web, so you would access it via navigator.geolocation.


Firebase Cloud Functions

In this blog post I will be talking about firebase cloud functions. Firebase cloud functions are used when you want to perform some action on your firebase data on the back end. We will go over a simple way to filter the data return by a user ID.