external – Tarik Billa

How to tackle redirect to an external url in NextJS?

April 5, 2024 by Tarik

The latest version of Next.js has this built in using the next.config.js script (see https://nextjs.org/docs/api-reference/next.config.js/redirects). No need for additional plugins. To test, copy the NextJs sample app: npx create-next-app nextjs-blog –use-npm –example “https://github.com/vercel/next-learn-starter/tree/master/learn-starter” Add a next.config.js file to the root folder with the following code: // this simply tests the redirecting of the root path … Read more

Use Jinja2 template engine in external javascript file

January 8, 2024 by Tarik

The index.js is probably not served by your flask instance, but it is most definitely not processed by your templateing engine and even if it would it would not have the same context as the html it is requested for. I think the cleanest solution would be to have an initiation function in your index.js … Read more

Loading external script with jinja2 template directive

January 5, 2024 by Tarik

You have two choices here — the first is the way you did it — simply add the appropriate markup into a template (or a block if you want to be able to override it in templates which extend your first template.) The second way is to use Jinja2’s include function: {% block javascript %} … Read more

Python – how do I call external python programs?

January 5, 2024 by Tarik

If you want to call each as a Python script, you can do import subprocess subprocess.call([“python”, “myscript.py”]) subprocess.call([“python”, “myscript2.py”]) But a better way is to call functions you’ve written in other scripts, like this: import myscript import myscript2 myscript.function_from_script1() myscript2.function_from_script2() Where function_from_script1() etc are defined in the myscript.py and myscript2.py files. See this page on … Read more

Python: Create Dictionary from Text/File that’s in Dictionary Format

December 25, 2023 by Tarik

You can use the eval built-in. For example, this would work if each dictionary entry is on a different line: dicts_from_file = [] with open(‘myfile.txt’,’r’) as inf: for line in inf: dicts_from_file.append(eval(line)) # dicts_from_file now contains the dictionaries created from the text file Alternatively, if the file is just one big dictionary (even on multiple … Read more

jquery: how to include other .js-files into .js

December 22, 2023 by Tarik

How about jQuery.getScript()? It’s built in to jQuery and works like so: $.getScript(‘ajax/test.js’, function() { alert(‘Load was performed.’); });

eclipse, refresh files edited by external editor

December 12, 2023 by Tarik

Perhaps you want to check Preferences > General > Workspaces > Refresh using native hooks or polling. You can see that the eclipse refreshes the file you edit with external editor (like vi, emacs, etc) when you check the option.

RAILS link_to external site, url is attribute of user table, like: @users.website

September 24, 2023 by Tarik

You can prepend url with protocol if it’s absent: module UrlHelper def url_with_protocol(url) /^http/i.match(url) ? url : “http://#{url}” end end And then: link_to @user.site, url_with_protocol(@user.url), :target => ‘_blank’

Can I change a table from internal to external in hive?

September 16, 2023 by Tarik

ALTER TABLE <table> SET TBLPROPERTIES(‘EXTERNAL’=’TRUE’) Note: EXTERNAL and TRUE need to caps or it will not work

Externalizing Grails Datasource configuration

August 29, 2023 by Tarik

You can use a properties file specified in the grails.config.locations as a way to externalize the datasource configuration. Below is how I typically set up a Grails project: In my DataSource.groovy I specify this for the production environment: …. …. production { dataSource { dbCreate = “update” driverClassName = “com.myorg.jdbcDriverNotExists” url = “” username = … Read more