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Have you ever wasted a lot of time merging endless files just because someone committed a file with a different code style and refused to fix it?

Have you ever had problems with your code editor because it was formatting your code on save leaving it with some weird line breaks, or using tabs instead of spaces?

Have you ever pushed a commit to fix a typo, trying to reference _MyVar instead of _myVar?

If your answer is Yes to any of the questions above, or you just don’t want to find yourself in any of these situations, stick with me.

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React Native is one of the most popular frameworks used in mobile development. It was created by Facebook based on Javascript. It can be used to build apps to iOS or Android with native platform capabilities.

Expo is a tool that helps you speed up development time and testing.

This article explains how you can integrate a React Native app with Back4App. After completing this step-by-step tutorial, you will have built a project to manipulate a To-Do List.

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When faced with the challenge to migrate from RDBMS to NoSQL, specifically MySQL to MongoDB, many programmers and/or people who don’t have deep experience with Databases end up cornered between expensive commercial ETL tools or free community tools.

Usually the latter is the option of choice for its obvious pricing advantage and, while MongoDB has a great import tool (a.k.a. mongoimport) which can successfully import CSV and JSON files, that can be easily generated with MySQL, a few times the complexity of the Database structure makes this process quite challenging, as conversion of values might not always match for both databases.

This article is intended to give you another option to help developers with migrating such data.

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Back4App is a heavy Amazon Web Services user and we run most of our infrastructure on this cloud provider. We will show you how we delivered $500,000 in yearly Amazon Web Services savings. Software development companies, startups, and enterprises can benefit from this article because:

• It provides effective and proved ways to reduce AWS spending;
• We show how to have short-term and low hanging fruit gains;
• Most of the procedures are simple and demand only planning and hard work.

The actions described in this article are based on our own experience managing cloud infrastructure and translated in successful cost reductions. Here is a brief checklist of what you will find reading this report.

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As you have probably heard, the Buddy.com platform is turning off its Parse hosting service. We are glad to offer our assistance to help Buddy users to migrate to Back4App. We’ve developed a CLI Migration tool especially for migrating Parse Apps to Back4App. The tool is so straightforward that it can help Buddy users to migrate their apps in minutes. In this post, I describe in detail how to use this CLI Migration tool to move your database and files from Buddy. Also, I suggest an approach to migrate other features such as cloud code and integrations.

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When you key in ‘How to Clone Apps’ on the internet, a bucket of resources, blog posts, whitepapers, articles, and video tutorials can be discovered on SERPs.

As a developer, at some time, you might have worked in a team that utilizes a shared database for development, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) or deployment. If so, you must also be familiar with many overlaps between projects, contentions for resources, erratic environment stages, and high-level of dependency on other team members to get the end product deployed.

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