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January 2024 Newsletter
February 1, 2024 - written by Roland BOLE (Instructor)
This edition of the #icAcademy newsletter includes a summary of the latest blog
posts, the announcement of our free quizzes, learnings of the month, an update
of our first course, and a brief preview of our upcoming course "How to develop
applications for the Internet Computer".
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Hello 👋 and welcome to this newsletter.

We are pleased to present the monthly updates on IC Academy activities.

This edition of the #icAcademy newsletter includes a summary of the latest blog
posts, the announcement of our free quizzes, learnings of the month, an update
of our first course, and a brief preview of our upcoming course “How to develop
applications for the Internet Computer”.


LET’S START WITH A RECAP

In this section we would like to give you a summary of the latest blog posts, in
case you have missed it.

⚡ Get Up and Running with Svelte on the Internet Computer
In this article you will learn how you can get up and running with Svelte on the
Internet Computer.
blog.icacademy.at


In this first post of the month we have published a starter kit for Svelte
frontend projects. The reason for that was a lack of starter kits provided by
the official examples from the Internet Computer repository at that time.
Although there were some starter kits available, most of them have outdated npm
packages and were not ready to use for my use case.

Later, we also published a SvelteKit starter kit on our public Github
organisation because of the routing topic. For our next online course
“Application Development on the Internet Computer”, we have prepared a
supporting material example for authenticated routing. In this example we use
the Internet Identity to protect some routes and make it only available for
authenticated users. For this, we used the file-based routing system of
SvelteKit because it works out of the box.

⚡ Astro + Svelte on the Internet Computer
In this article you will learn how to use Astro and a Svelte component to
interact with the Internet Computer.
blog.icacademy.at


Our final public post concludes with a discussion on Astro + Svelte within the
Internet Computer framework. As our course “Master Deployments of Static
Websites on the Internet Computer” is centered around Astro, it delves into the
process of hosting static websites on the Internet Computer. Throughout the
course participants gain insights about how to benefit from the inherent
security features of a blockchain-based infrastructure for static websites.

To take a step further, we want to look at how we could use a Svelte component
to interact with a backend Motoko canister on the Internet Computer. For this
purpose, we implemented a small glossary service that could be queried from the
frontend.

This example goes a little beyond the typical HelloWorld example and shows the
use of a stable hash map and the handling of Motoko Result types. In the Web2
world it is a storage variant for an object array. With a little bit of
imagination you can do a few things with it.


FREE QUIZZES

We have also updated our free quizzes section on blog.icacademy.at. Currently,
one quiz is available. We are working on a second one which will be delivered on
this new platform as soon as possible.

⚡ Train yourself with our free quizzes
Grab a cup of coffee and test your knowledge with our free quizzes.
blog.icacademy.at



LEARNINGS

As a developer, especially as an experienced developer, you often have concerns
about talking about what you have learned. Because you might think that other
people may be surprised about what you did not know before or you assume that
everyone should know that. So, this section is for all, because in the field of
IT nobody knows everything.

This month I have picked two learnings:

The first learning was the importance of understanding how VITE works as a build
tool, especially when dealing with environmental variables. So, grab a cup of
coffee, take this time and study the VITE documentation. They have an excellent
website, it is definitely worth checking it out. vitejs.dev

The second learning was about what happens with false or unavailable routes in
the project on the Internet Computer, to be precise on an Asset canister. This
is a common scenario because in some cases you have to deal with custom error
pages. Well, from my observation, the behaviour is slightly different between
local, playground and IC mainnet deployment. According to the documentation and
a post in the dfinity forum a false URL should be routed automatically to the
index.html file of the Asset canister.

In the same blog post a Dfinity team member pointed out that he is working on a
library that would allow developers to create their own custom-build asset
canister. With that you would be able to write any kind of routing logic that
your application needs. Let’s see.
forum.dfinity.org/t/sveltekit-with-staticadapter-and…


COURSE USAGE

We are very happy that our first course Master Deployments of Static Websites on
the Internet Computer has a growing number of participants all over the world.
Thanks to VERIABLE, a qualification and certification platform based in the
heart of Europe, for supporting automated and seamless registration, enrollment
and learning processes.

> Also we would like to thank you to all the course participants, you are so
> powerful, we are very proud of you for taking this course.


COURSE DEVELOPMENT

This section provides a short update of the current course production status of
the IC Academy.

Currently, we are still working on the course “How to Develop Applications on
the Internet Computer”.

The Internet Computer provides a way to replace traditional centralised IT
infrastructure with a decentralised infrastructure. In this course we are going
to show you how this could be done, with tools provided by the Internet Computer
itself, not using a third party tool.

We are working on module 1 treating how you can set up your development
environment by yourself by using a SvelteKit application including a local
Internet Identity replica.

Enjoying our content? Don’t forget to forward and share it with your friends!

Best Regards BOLE Roland

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