Proxy Your Requests With Grunt

Probably you’re already using grunt to serve your local frontend code. Everything is fine, but if you’re developing your backend with something different than JavaScript (Being a Java developer I heard that might happen), you will have problems accessing this backend while running grunt server. With grunt-connect-proxy there exists a grunt module to help you out. It basically delegates requests that match a given URL to a different backend of your choice....

March 13, 2015 · 2 min · admin

Using Google App Engine as Backend for Android

If you’re looking for a way to create a backend for your Android application, Google App Engine looks like the perfect choice: You can use Java as you can do for Android and you don’t need to think too much about hosting, as it is all stored in the cloud. Another benefit is that you can reuse your transfer objects on the client and on server side. But as it is often there are some problems doing this in practice....

December 2, 2011 · 2 min · admin