Node Sass does not yet support your current environment: Windows 64-bit with Unsupported runtime (83)

 This is an easy solution, you need to recompile SAAS using:

npm rebuild node-sass

Android emulator not recognizing localhost

While configuring Google as an authentication provider for a react native app, I had to configure the redirect uri, which usually points to localhost.

However, the android emulator could not figure out the redirect uri, and that's because the android emulator and my PC are in different networks. localhost works on my PC, but the android emulator is its own network. The way to fix it is with adb reverse. Like this:

adb reverse tcp:44371 tcp:44371

The port number does not necessarily need to match, it can be different. The first port is the emulator's, and the second port is obviously your PC.

Connecting to IIS Express from an Android emulator

I've been struggling with this. While working on a proof of concept of an Android app connecting to an API running in my localhost, the Android app could not to IIS Express. At first, I thought it had to do with using a self-signed certificate. But even without SSL I still got a network error. This is how I fixed it:

1) First, the Android app should connect to the local ipv4 address, not localhost, not 127.0.0.1

2) Modify the file applicationhost.config as indicated here https://blogs.blackmarble.co.uk/rfennell/2012/11/06/using-iisexpress-for-addresses-other-than-localhost/, by replacing localhost with *

3) Restart IIS Express

And that's it!

Installing yarn on Debian - No such file or directory: 'global'

This was happening while trying to install the ignite bowser demo app (https://github.com/infinitered/ignite).

The final solution was to run the following to fix the problem:

sudo apt remove cmdtest 

sudo apt install yarn

Which I found here (https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/3708)

Accessing WSL files from Windows

I've been playing with WSL2 and accessing the Linux files is quite easy as indicated here https://superuser.com/questions/1110974/how-to-access-linux-ubuntu-files-from-windows-10-wsl. You only need to fire up File Explorer and type \\wsl$\Ubuntu\home\<<username>>

Of course, you need to replace <<username>> with your actual username.

Copying files ignoring errors on Windows

When copying a directory between Linux and Windows a lot of errors might be thrown, so I like to use this command to silent and ignore the errors:

xcopy $SOURCE $DESTINATION /C /E /Q 

Talks 2 Code Conference

 Check out my talk for the magazine Software Guru. It's in Spanish though.

https://youtu.be/DyotAYEa5AU