Issue: 2020 - May/June

Challenging times running CODE Magazine right before and during the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

What does authentication mean in for applications working at Internet scale? Learn common tenets for the modern world (2020s).

Learn to use the Model-View-View-Model (MVVM) design pattern, long used in WPF applications, in MVC Core applications. Using MVVM in MVC makes your applications even more reusable, testable, and maintainable.

Learn a bit about how Amazon Web Services (AWS) supports .NET platforms including hosting ASP.NET Core apps.

Bilal Haidar concludes this series and shows how to connect an Angular front-end application with a NestJS back-end API.

In this tutorial-style overview, Wei‑Meng Lee introduces SwiftUI as Apple’s modern, state-driven declarative UI framework, contrasts it with UIKit/Storyboard, and walks readers through the Xcode tools, live previews, and key concepts like views-as-functions-of-state and modifiers; he then demonstrates building a practical NewsReader app—fetching JSON, displaying lists with remote images, navigation and a WebView—so developers can quickly get hands-on experience migrating to SwiftUI.

Ciprian and Markus talk about what’s coming in artificial intelligence and beyond.

John considers how life will change as he writes at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.