Tag: file

Generate IPA file from XCode

To generate a IPA file from XCode you need to archive your project, if you already did it before, you can open the organizer. If you never archived your project, you can go to Product > Archive and then it will open the Organizer when the compilation is complete.

Archive the project if you didn’t before
OR open the organizer if you already archived your project
Click on Distribute App
You can click on “Custom” and then “Next”
You should select “Development”
You can then select “All compatible device variants” in App Thinning
You can then select “Automatically manage signing”

Then you should be able to go to the final step

Export the project to IPA file with Export (select the right folder)

Git : Don’t commit node_modules except a file in a library

If you are using the node_modules in your Node.JS / Javascript / Typescript project you should exclude to commit all the libraries used by your application with this line in the .gitignore file:

.gitignore

node_modules/

But, you may need to modify a file in the /node_modules folder, excluded in the .gitignore

Force commit a file in a excluded folder in .gitignore

If you want to fix a file in a library that makes some problems in your application, you may want to modify the library directly in /node_modules (the case you are using the last version of the library, you can check on https://www.npmjs.com/ if you are using the last version in your package.json)

In my case, I modified node_modules/react-native-firebase/ios/RNFirebase/notifications/RNFirebaseNotifications.m a library that is not changed since 2 years and have a problem in my application. You can of course make a git issue on the official page but if you need it to work fast, you may want to commit it directly in your project and it is fixed.

After you made the change in the library, you can commit with git add -f …

In my case:

git add -f node_modules/react-native-firebase/ios/RNFirebase/notifications/RNFirebaseNotifications.m
You can see your file to be commit in your Git Desktop, and my node_modules folder is excluded in .gitignore

Import / Export MySQL Workbench tables in Google Cloud SQL database

If you have a database on Google Cloud and you want to import and export some tables to another database, you will need a database explorer to export your .SQL backup.

Export the tables you want in database

Google Cloud interface only allow to export all a database or a specific database, but not tables

As you can see you don’t have the option to select tables.
To do so, you will have to connect the database with a SQL explorer.
In MySQL Workbench you should go in Server > Data Export

Then you should be able to select the tables you want

select Export to Self-Contained File to have a .SQL file

Import the SQL file to Google Cloud

You will need to upload the SQL file to Google Cloud in order to import it. In order to do it, go to Google Cloud > Cloud Storage, create the bucket if it doesn’t exist yet :

create the bucket dedicated for SQL, with random numbers, to have a unique name
Upload the SQL file generated by MySQL Workbench

Then, you can go on Google Cloud > SQL > Import

Select the SQL file from the bucked and select the database you want the tables to be imported

And then you should have imported successfully the tables on the selected database. You should check it in Operations


In case of errors, check the error in Operations, and modify the .SQL file with a text editor, search the error in the SQL file and remove the lines, and repeat the process (upload it again to Google Cloud Storage and import the SQL file again)

Public Images for your React / Angular app on Google Cloud

We often need images in our React or Angular app, but putting them in the project is not clean.
So we can use Google Cloud with Cloud Storage for the images on your app.

There are many advantages of using Cloud Storage to expose public images :
– Real time maintenance (upload, delete, change, …)
– You don’t need any commit on your git (if you commit images on your Github / Gitlab for example)
– Clean project, only code files
– Light project repository to commit, images are heavy quickly

Create a Bucket

First, you need to create a Bucket (it’s like a big folder) if you don’t already have one.

Switch to Uniform access control

Then, to make your Bucket public, go to the Permissions tab, and change the access control to Uniform :

You should click Switch to Uniform, so you don’t have to make public each file one by one
You can see, if you upload your first image, that it’s not public yet

Add public access using by adding a Reader role for allUsers

You can then add the access of Object Reader to allUsers
Then you can see it’s Public to Internet and you are able to copy URL

You can now use you image anywhere, it’s on internet and anyone can see it with the URL, so you can use it to store images for your React / Angular app, all images will work.