Articles by Dev To from June 2019

Hi there,Sometimes you need to write a conditional block that will only be executed once or for a brief period of time then the condition won't be satisfied again, like for ever.An example for these I...

This is my first article, please don't criticize too much IntroRecently, Go 1.12 released. Go now has a great WebAssembly support, even a special UMD script for better DX.So, if we have WebAssemb...

I will explain in this article how to create from scratch an internationalized (i18n) Angular app with the use of the Angular CLI and how to deploy it on an Apache or NGINX web server.The following ve...

Did you know Dev.to has themes? Until recently, I definitely didn't. Now I can't live without Dev.to night theme, it even turns the "Write A Post" button into an awesome street sign. How to Use D...

Welcome to Day 2 of our challenge series. Today, youll be using some clean and polished code to create a clean and polished diamond.Our challenge comes from user @jayeshcp on CodeWars.Your task is to ...

Follow me on Twitter, happy to take your suggestions on topics or improvements /ChrisYou thought this was about space didn't you? Yea my bad :). But now that I have your attention let's talk about Ser...

Why write?Every word you write is a seed.Over time, these seeds grow into a garden of paradise.This is your paradise.Content builds on itself and compounds.When someone takes notice of a flower from t...

In this tutorial, we are going to learn about deploying a vue.js app to GitHub pages.We are deploying our vue app in four steps. Step 1Push your vue.js app to a GitHub repository. Step 2Crea...

Write You Some FP MathsIn this series I'll be looking at some mathematical concepts and functional programming stuff in JavaScript to help solidify the concepts and just generally gain experienc...

Only Intrinsic Motivation LastsLast February I left my cushy job at Amazon after 8 years. Despite getting rewarded repeatedly with promotions, compensation, recognition, and praise, I wasnt moti...

The following blog post will walk you through how to use Microsoft Azure Bot Services to create a simple chatbot using minimal programming, Twilio, and a Word Doc.If youre looking for a quick summary ...

Hey, everyone. We've decided to host a daily challenge series. We'll have a variety of challenges, ranging in difficulty and complexity. If you choose to accept the task, your goal is to write the mos...

Read the original article in CodeThat.todayCSS tends to produce excessive headaches among developers, and we don't blame them. Working with CSS can be notoriously cumbersome and time-consuming especia...

Towards the end of May, we started to receive a lot of reports from DEV users that our Android App was giving them an Offline message even when they had an internet connection. Additional reports came...

The log file has existed since programmer time immemorial. The software world moves really fast, but it's not hard to imagine someone decades ago poring over a log file. This is, perhaps, as iconic as...

On JS Party #78 we talked all about developer strengths and weaknesses (and even shared our own). That got me thinking... we all have strengths and weaknesses. Sometimes we have them in common, someti...

Cover image: This is my very last work before leaving the advertising world. One of the Seat Ateca campaign images that I can now showcase. I'm not sharing links to avoid looking self-promoting which ...

Finding system information in Ubuntu like Number and type of processors, memory usage, uptime, etc are extremely easy.You can use Linux system commands like free -m, uname -a and uptime to find these ...

Learning JavaScript isn't fun for everybody, especially for people who are impatient. Sometimes there comes a point where people start to question if this is even the right career path for them.But Ja...

Sometimes I'm asked why we don't have "dot-chaining" in RxJS anymore, or why RxJS made the switch to use pipe. There are a lot of reasons, but this is really something that needs to be looked at from ...

the header image for this post was taken from the official Support Policy for .NET CoreIt's finally that time! Yes: .NET Core 1.0 and 1.1 have gone out of LTS and are no longer receiving servicing sup...

This post piggybacks off of the work done by @avanslaars who is a fellow instructor at egghead.io. He shared this in the egghead Slack sometime ago and I never got around to setting this up myself.Now...

Cover Photo by Stavrialena Gontzou on UnsplashHey lovely DEV community!I'm writing this short post to show you a small website that I built using just HTML and CSS Yay! Old times! I always wanted to ...

You've tried everything. There are all kinds of console.log message setup. Try-catch statements are everywhere. You've looked through the documentation, searched the forums from 2009, and still nothin...

One of these days, I'll write a Dev.to article that isn't just thought dumping onto a page. However, today is not that day!I pride myself on being a sponge for knowledge. Recently, however, I've been ...

Bool, Boolean, we all know that type. It is a primitive type in every programming language I know. Bool is a type containing two possible values - True and False. That means that Bool is very small se...

One of the goals I set to myself for this year is diving into public speaking. There is no special reason behind it. I am not in a leadership position nor my company is planning to send me to do PR a...

To install Bootstrap 4 and a theme, we are going to be adding some packages, updating some configuration and adding a few additional gems/libraries to make life developing easier. This is going to ass...

For a comprehensive deep-dive into the subject of Software Design Patterns, check out Software Design Patterns: Best Practices for Developers, created by C.H. Afzal, a veteran software engineer with m...

I recently wrote a blog post about how I was learning to make video games in the Unity game engine. In that post, I built a simple space scene, and added some basic game mechanics. After writing that ...

(CAUTION: The word Journey is used throughout this post)What am I wittering on about today?Design. There was a time I didnt even consider the design of a dashboard as something separate from the actua...

As was discussed in this post yesterday, meeting up irl is awesome. DEV Conference? Andrew Jun 24 1 min read #fun #discuss #eventsinyourc...

This week, I hit a nasty bug in my favorite email client, which just happens to be a fairly popular project from one of the oldest and largest open source development communities.Actually, I've been f...

The technical interview process can feel like a daunting challenge for a new developer just beginning to dip her toes into the industry. Luckily for me, I recently had the good fortune of connecting w...

Today's episode of Byte Sized is about Grace Hopper's contributions to computer history. If you know any more Grace Hopper factoids, leave a comment and let the community know!Follow Byte Sized ...

This is our monthly thread where community members share openings at their companies.Here a few ground rules:Please only post if you are personally part of the hiring company (no recruiting firms)Plea...

A good user flow contributes enormously to a successful website. The content, positioning and appearance should therefore be well thought out. Here you will find some inspirations for your own navigat...

Seeing this tweet warmed my heart so much, and it just reminded me how amazing this big community we have is. Katerina Borodina @kathyra...

If you follow me on Twitter then you might have caught on that one of my recent projects has been migrating all of our background processing jobs at Kenna from Resque to Sidekiq. I have been asked mor...

You might be wondering why I am writing less these days. I assure you, it's not because I am getting lazy (I am ATM ), it's just that I am on a long overdue holiday. But to keep my juices going, I tho...

ContextFor the past few weeks, I have been using a crazy mix of the following. All within a git repository (infrastructure as code), as we migrate most of our infrastructure and workload from on...

An interview is not the place to voice negative thoughts. Youre there to make a good impression, and thats best done with positive opinions. Even though you may have the best of intentions, be careful...

After witnessing some awesome things CSS can do, it's time for HTML to come in the same spotlight!It's amazing that you can do so much with just HTML. 1. Dropdown with searchable text 2. Dia...

Slack is being used a lot as a platform for online communities to interact. From meetups and conferences groups to specialized programming languages or tools. Right now I think I might be in 10 or so ...

As an Azure Advocate, one of the things I spend my time doing is learning the easiest ways for beginners to use Microsoft Azure. Today I want to share with you a few ways to utilize some tools that ar...

This is sort of a follow up to this post: Invest in building custom tools Ben Halpern Jun 16 1 min read #productivity I am curious to what t...

Functional JavaScript isn't a tool, framework, 3rd-party addon, npm module, or anything else you'd add on. Functional Programming is an approach for writing code, and Functional JavaScript (FJS) is ho...

Source How to Write a Good Piece of CodeXKDC Make Sure Your Code "Can Be Good"The first and probably most important step to writing a good piece of code is to not code at all. Have you valid...

So Ive been coding for 25 years. By far my worst skill is seo. Ive never been able to get traffic to any of my personal websites. Like the most I ever got was 1000 in a day. But typical its 10 to 0. I...

I recently got a lot of questions about what to expect from a junior interview and what I look for. Since I have a very narrow view I wanted to open it up to the community. No need to be overly specif...

Intro A Complete Beginner's Guide to Vue Ali Spittel Mar 20 8 min read #beginners #javascript #vue #frontend When...

TL;DRI chose Angular because together we make a great team. It provides a fully-fledged platform that takes care of non-functional requirements such as compatibility, maintainability and testabi...

18th July will mark two years of my career as a software engineer in the tech industry. Even though I've been coding for a lot longer than that, the majority of lessons I've learnt have come from work...

This is a chapter Editing Like Magic with Vim Operators from the book Boosting Your Coding Fu with VSCode and VimMotions aren't just for moving. They can be used in combination with a series of comman...

Helen joins @philnash, @florinpop17 and @lauragift21 in the club as the fourth winner of this badge. .ltag__user__id__22532 .follow-action-button { background-color: #220A37 !important; ...

Every Monday we round up the previous week's top posts based on traffic, engagement, and a hint of editorial curation. The typical week starts on Monday and ends on Sunday, but don't worry, we take in...

It's Monday, you feel unmotivated to write any single line of code, it's hard to give a good review to your teammate.How do you handle those days when you feel like your productivity and motivation ar...

Function should adhere to the Single Responsibility Principle - meaning it should do one thing and one thing only. So if your function name includes "AND", it means you're doing too much. Solution? Re...

Originally posted on a11ywithlindsey.com. If you'd like to see video examples of how screen readers interpret these, they are at the source!Last week, I got a decent amount of folks who found the aria...

NOTE: this post was written a few days after the first public Sorbet release (on 2019-06-20). If you're reading this months after that happened, most of the things described here could be no longer re...

TL;DR: You can now write your articles for DEV in Google Docs, then publish it to DEV with Cloudpress. For free.BTW, you can view the original Google Doc for this article to get an idea of how Cloudpr...

When all other resources fail me, technical blogs come to the rescue. They provide insight into my problem, clues about the design of a potential solution, and sometimes humor or even an emotional con...

I have been mentoring developers since 2013, and I can never stop putting emphasis on how important mastering HTML and CSS is if you want to make your career in the World Wide Web. It's been 6 years n...

Raspberry Pi @raspberry_pi Raspberry Pi 4 is here! A tiny, dual-display desktop computer, with t...

There is a lot to like in EntityFramework... and some less desirable parts. The good Automatic translation of C# Linq queries to SQL for efficient queryingFor example, the following asks the...

One of the reasons I like programming so much is that it allows me to automate small and annoying things that would otherwise require bunch of manual work.Yesterday, I downloaded a set of files that c...

Cover photo by Daniel McCullough via Unsplash. Points of interest Resizable block-level divsThe resize property - I wasn't aware you could actually control this past textareas, but stumbled ...

It's been around nine years since Angular JS (the first one) was unleashed on the world. Nine years of single page apps (SPAs) in the browser, and constant innovation in the frameworks used to build t...

If you are developing and deploying applications to production, especially cloud, you would have heard about Kubernetes. Kubernetes(k8s) is a container orchestration platform originally developed by G...

Improve your websites speed and performance by lazy loading images with Intersection Observer API in just a few lines of vanilla JavaScript.Lazy loading is a technique that loads images or videos only...

Earlier this month a topic was proposed on #TSQLTuesday (like #devdiscuss but with the T-SQL community) to encourage some self-reflection. If you could write a letter to your 20-year-old self, what w...

A few days ago Microsoft released a very early version of the new Windows Terminal.The Windows Terminal is a new, modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application for users of co...

This probably depends on where we live and work, but personally, I have not experienced anything negative for being a female programmer in my few years of career.Like everyone else, I had interview op...

PrefaceI was playing around with "Math.min/max" and the result of empty calls looked like it was backwards. QuestionShouldn't Math.min return -Infinity while Math.max, Infinity? MDN Do...

I recently was inspired by @brob with his design reviews and wanted to start doing some video code reviews! So here is the first one in that series.This is me reviewing one of my own project Sleet. I'...

So, like all good things, the idea for this post comes from a tweet: Tierney @NodeConfCo @bitandbang @irreverentmik...

One of my first posts on this site was about webapp I made to handle taking attendance: Rust + ReasonML - a beginner's love story Ben Lovy Oct 29 '18 6 min read ...

Hello everyone! Time for devlog number #2!In the last week, we've implemented transparent walls and the player animation state machine. Max continued designing sprites for the game and Andrei implemen...

Written in collaboration with Caroline Odden. Based on the talk with the same name and people, held at the ReactJS Oslo Meetup in June 2019.Creating components that are used by a lot of people is hard...

Prisons Are Banning Books That Teach Prisoners How to CodeOregon prisons have banned dozens of books about technology and programming, like 'Microsoft Excel 2016 for Dummies,' citing security r...

Would you like to share your feedback on what would make a great DevOps experience in VS Code? We want your feedback on how we can build a great DevOps experience in VS Code - if you have a few minute...

First of all, I am not a blogger or advocate of any technology, or speak at events/conferences. So mind my first attempt at writing. I hope I am clear in expressing myself.I want to talk about some pr...

With the release of the VueJS 3 "Request for Comment" documentation about two weeks ago, Evan You introduced the VueJS function-based API and has set the VueJS community ablaze. These new ideas are st...

About three years ago I bought a domain name, intending, as always, to launch a project with it. Here we are three years later and I've done exactly no work on the project _()_/ To practice some JavaS...

React Hooks are simple. Whatever adjectives may come to mind about your favorite application state management tool (redux, mobx) surely would not include simple.I have worked with a couple implementat...

Hey, I'm Ryland Goldstein a 24 y/o dev based in the bay. TL;DRBuilt a high performance C game engine optimized for realtime terrain genWent to a top 5 CS school and was poached by my professor (Intel ...

A whole lot of thinking goes into what distro you should use as a dev. Its not just about your preference or what you like in terms of the Desktop GUI, packaging system or any other aspects of the wor...

Welcome to The DOCOM Weekly, your weekly digest featuring some of the best content published in and around the DigitalOcean Community last week. I'm Erika Heidi, Technical Writer at the Dev Education ...

Glitch This Week is a regular series in which we round-up just some of the amazing projects that fantastic creators have made on Glitch. Here are a few projects that caught our eye this week. An ...

We've all heard the phrase 'work-life balance'. It's a topic that lots of incredibly clever people on this site delve into regularly. I've seen lots of excellent commentary and discussion about how be...

Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of?All wins count -- big or small Examples of 'wins' include:Getting a promotion!Starting a new projectFixing a tricky bugCleaning your hou...

Arrow functions - they're the more concise version of regular functions and they've been gaining popularity since they were first introduced in ES6. Not only is the syntax much cleaner but they also p...

Today I was amazed to see the usually positive and friendly VueJS community descend into a bitter war. Two weeks ago Vue creator Evan You released a Request for Comment (RFC) for a new function-based ...

Object.entries allows you to convert an object into an array structure:console.log(Object.entries({prop1: 1, prop2: 2 }))// [ ["prop1", 1], ["prop2", 2] ]This method is part of the ECMAScript 2017 Spe...

Bottom Line Up Front: Here's a demo of the identity widget we'll see in this article, although you are free to write your own authentication UI!If you want to skip the explanation and just get to the ...

I wanted to develop a *VS Code extension * to solve one of my daily problems, so I started to look at VS Code APIThey have really awesome documentation and sample extensions which are really helpful....

The other day I was reviewing some code and I found myself staring puzzled at this snippet:fixture `A bunch of tests` .page `http://myapp.github.io/example`;Of course I noticed the template literal...

Cover photo by Clem Onojeghuo via Unsplash. I'm very sorry. And you're welcome.Look at that bad boy chug. I think I set my CPU on fire making it... poor thing is really doing its best. I see why ...

There are many great resources about how to publish your own npm packages, but I want to share a few thoughts on why you should be publishing your own npm packages and why it will make you a better de...

Feature flags allow you to slowly rollout a feature gradually rather than doing a risky big bang launch and are extremely helpful when used in a continuous integration and continuous delivery environm...

Stripe open sourced Sorbet today, a fast, powerful type checker for Ruby. Here's the full blog post, Open-sourcing Sorbet: a fast, powerful type checker for Ruby.Being a fan of TypeScript, I know peop...

Have you ever searched for some text in a file on the command line only to realize that grep's output isn't quite enough for you to understand what is happening in the file? Sometimes you want to see...

I have been seriously coding for three months so far. This means that I have focused entirely in becoming a developer in, ideally, a year. It might sound pretty ambitious, I know. But you need clear g...

Analyzing your stacks real costsI was asked a few weeks ago to write about the relative costs of different platforms for a smallish service serving a very large scale (my model here was the very...

The history of JavaScript is almost as weird as the language itself. Over the last 25 years, it has exploded from a rushed prototype for Netscape to the world's most widely used programming language. ...

This week I take a look at habits, consistency and why you need them for your personal and professional growth, with an in-depth article from Steph Smith.This article sparked a TON of discussion and i...

This tweet from Ali Spittel stood out to me: Ali Spittel @aspittel Here's the reason I teach:I am not the traditiona...

Background/Lead UpI've got about 1.5 years left at university, so I wouldn't be applying for a position for a bit anyways, but I figure it'd be better to prepare for my dream job now rather than...

this keyword must be one of the most confusing JavaScript concepts due to its dynamic nature of how it's invoked. If you find yourself reading this article, you probably have come across this several ...

The problemIt is the first interaction a developer will have with your library. They hear about the library through various means, but they will at some point all end up at the README. It is cri...

This will be the first in a series of tutorials covering a few of the fundamental topics in statistical analysis and machine learning. K-Means and Clustering Basic Problem and ClusteringYou'...

I got this question in a DM and felt like answering it more broadly. Obviously by founding DEV, I have some ideas on this topic.It started by focusing hard on "single player mode".The platform sort of...

Today, were incredibly excited to introduce Frontity 1.0 to the world! This is an important milestone for us here at Frontity but also for all of you, who have shown interest in this project and provi...

This post was originally published here Streamline your UI component development workflow What is Storybook and why would I use it?From Storybook's website itself:Storybook is an open source...

At one of my office jobs, we had a time tracker on our computers that was measuring the time spent at the office, and we needed to spend ~40h/week there. That tracker had a lot of issues, and later th...

You know when you get that feeling youre being watched ? Recently Ive had the suspicion that the darling of the FinTech world, Monzo, has beenwell, following me around. And then pilfering my stuff. My...

BackgroundA couple of years ago, I was thinking about promotion to Senior Consultant role, which required me to demonstrate my leadership skills and abilities. Working solo on an engagement, or ...

Hi, I'm the co-founder and CEO of Stackbit. We're working on making it easy for developers to build modern websites in minutes. With all the recent interest in getting off Medium, especially within th...

Whenever I start a new Webapp, I pretty much have the exact same set of libraries that I go to. React and Redux are high on that list. However, a lot of the time I find that the Redux store is being u...

Developing APIs has always been a crucial task for any project. A well-designed API must be flexible and scalable as it always evolves with time. The urge for improvements led to the explosive growth ...

When you look at Azure Functions, you see it as a great way to achieve elastic scaling of your application. You only pay for what you use, you have a free quota, and they allow you to build entire app...

On June 26th, we will be launching the first episode of this new series!Follow Byte Sized for all the episodes! .ltag__user__id__865 .follow-action-button { background-color: #2C1989 !import...

So far in this series, I've talked about how to get set up on Azure as a web app with hosting on azurewebsites.net and how to set up continuous integration using Azure pipelines. If you've been follow...

I'm sure there are different opinions on this, so let's hear them!...

Disclaimer: Despite the benefits I have found from standing while I work you should consult your doctor if you have any medical conditions that might make standing harmful to your body.A couple years ...

Introduction3D printing refers to a variety of processes in which a computer-operated machine creates three-dimensional objects by joining or solidifying material, typically layer-by-layer until...

Currying is the process of taking a function that accepts n arguments and turning it into n functions that each accepts a single argument. The arity of a function is the number of arguments that it ac...

Hi Today I would like to introduce you to a tiny library I just finished.It's called Hamo (Latin for hook) and will let you hook literally everything, adding zero overhead. The problemHooks are u...

A simple python example of using Macrometa's geo distributed cloud to create a DB application that runs across multiple worldwide data centersMacrometa is a geo distributed data cloud service and ava...

In this tutorial Im going to show you how to quickly and easily build a distributed database backend that spans across North America (Los Angeles & Ashburn VA), Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia (Mumbai...

Congratulations to the Class of 2019. You did it! The tassel was worth the hassle! I attended multiple graduations this weekend and though I really enjoyed the messages from the grad speakers, [insert...

Follow me on Twitter, happy to take your suggestions on topics or improvements /ChrisDurable functions enable you to write large complex application flows. The best part is that it uses the Serverless...

Sometimes you gotta fail to succeed. And that's what exactly happened to my first project.I failed. I haven't had my assessment with my lead yet but I already know I failed. I've been going over all t...

Hello, I'm a front-end developer looking for an open source project to help, specially the small ones. I work mainly with javascript, but could open to other languages. Is there anyone needing help? ...

I walked through the code demo listed here https://thesephist.github.io/torus/todo-demo.html and created a working version on Repl.it ...

Originally published at https://sergiodxa.com/articles/react-conditions-lists/In a previous article I wrote about how to start a React project using the state and effect hooks, this time we will see h...

This is a weekly roundup of awesome DEV comments that you may have missed. You are welcome and encouraged to boost posts and comments yourself using the #bestofdev tag.@amypellegrini left an amazing ...

Theres a foundational question that every project starts with: accept the freedom to roll your own solutions along with the burdens that go with it, or take the chance to use sensible defaults that al...

Cover Image Credit Callbacks?// callerfunction foo(callback) { callback('world');}// callback functionfunction myCallback(name) { console.log(`Hello ${name}`); // "hello world"}// pass callback...

The only thing that you can reliably do to validate an email address is to send it an email. YOU SEND IT AN EMAIL! That's the only way you can do it. I know what you're thinking, "I have the best regu...

Reality 2.0. This is how I tend to call Augmented Reality in the last half a year. Why is that? I honestly believe that Augmented reality already at the stage of getting out of the field of "gimmicky"...

Welcome!Leave a comment below to introduce yourself! You can talk about what brought you here, what you're learning, or just a fun fact about yourself.Reply to someone's comment, either with a q...

Libra.org is now live."Libras mission is to enable a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people."This project is receiving a lot of attention, and is be...

The challengeSo, I've decided to walk my path into Web Development with the Web Development Course of Angela Yu on Udemy. And this is one of the so-called "Boss Challenges" she proposed for the ...

This post is aimed for people who want to learn how to use commands such as rebase & learn a few tricks to have a nicer Git experience.Alright, let's start by watching the Git history of some of m...

There are a number of reasons for moving long-standing .NET Framework applications like WCF, and ASP.NET Webforms to containers and then into containers or "modernizing legacy heritage apps".DevOps - ...

Most times you submit a form on a website, you are making a request. Every time you go to a new page, you are making a request. These requests are shoved into a header and sent to another piece of cod...

Let's try a combined blog post today: one tip for helping your users get around when you have horizontal scroll areas (for effect, or whatever), and one tip for navigating the web. Vertical To Ho...

One of the reasons I've been so drawn to DEV.to over other platforms is the super encouraging and helpful community that gathers here. Initially I felt like it was going to be more a place where I sat...

Hi Dev people!This is the first time I make a series of posts and I have doubts on how to face it. Do I write detailed articles step by step explaining everything or is it better to explain briefly th...

Aggregate functions bring your data to life. They allow you to take a standard table and use a function or two to build metrics and answer questions about the data. If you are familiar with Pivot Ta...

In this post, we outline a new project which gives a name to some values we hold tightly at DEV.First, an examination of the web we live with...Warning: This post contains mixed metaphors and loose ph...

Andrew @_awwsmm Today was my best day yet as a manager of a small (2 excl. myself) team of #software #developers. Ea...

Every Monday we round up the previous week's top posts based on traffic, engagement, and a hint of editorial curation. The typical week starts on Monday and ends on Sunday, but don't worry, we take in...

Florin joins @philnash and @lauragift21 in the club as the third winner of this badge. .ltag__user__id__8821 .follow-action-button { background-color: #9B59B6 !important; color: #FFFFFF...

I often find that when people discuss "intelligence", they are actually talking about "knowledge". Confusion of these terms is responsible for awful things like, standardized testing and whiteboard in...

For those developers who suddenly have to lead a remote team and answer to stakeholders, I compiled a checklist that you and your teammates can follow to have a simple, transparent, predictable and fr...

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Let me start saying that I love Kubernetes, I even have a personal one for my things but I'm an experienced DevOps and it is in my spare time.Usually, you want the complexity of the technical solution...

So you've decided to drop support for IE11 and move onto evergreen browsers only (IE11 is only about ~2% globally). That's great! With that in mind, here's a giant list of the features you should use,...

As developers we always seek to have the most efficient environment, and that often means buying a high-end laptop. We're going to see in this post that using VS Code Remote Development with Azure can...

When I magnify a window in Chrome, I see an icon like this:When I reduce the size of a window below it's normal 100% I get this:Clicking either of those icons gives me options for modifying the magnif...

When looking through job postings there is typically a laundry list of must haves and nice to haves. How many boxes do you need to tick to consider yourself qualified?Sometimes it's hard to tell if I ...

Note: all page numbers below are for the Kindle version of the book.This book was absolutely painful at the start. The 20th anniversary edition (1995) hasn't updated any of the references (obviously) ...

Hello there!For a long time now I've been wanting to take notes on a couple of tricks I currently use at work regarding the concept of Destructuring in JavaScript. I feel like most of the things I lea...

Its Sunday, I get a call. Timelines have changed, new demos are scheduled. Most people are mad when work calls them on the weekend. When I get the call, it feels like the bat signal and I jump into ac...

Non-profitsI am curious about the way developers handle working with non-profit organisations. Juste like a lot of organisations and people, they have a need for software and websites. But, they...

"You should contribute to open-source." The Internet.Maybe you've seen this advice. Either from those who believe in free software or as a suggestion to aid job seeking. Many people (some of my ment...

If you're like me, you pretty much Google "gitignore templates" each time you start a new project from scratch. That's at least 15 seconds you'll never get back, so I made a command-line tool for that...

We just shipped a new theme to go along with "default", "night theme", and "pink theme". It's called "minimal light".It uses more soft grays and whites than the default light theme and is less busy ov...

Follow me on Twitter, happy to take your suggestions on topics or improvements /ChrisThe React Context exists so you dont have to pass in data manually at every level. Context is about sharing data to...

This article is a cross-post from my personal blogI recently published my first npm package and my colleague, Attila Vg, suggested I write up some notes on the process. I'll point out that I am not an...

Hello there!I'm studying Vue nowadays. So I thought that the best way to get a full understanding of things is to write an article about them :]Also, when I was developing the app I realized missing i...

Resize depending on the viewportWe don't need much to build a basic responsive image.<img src="..." alt="..." >img { width: 100%; height: auto;}Images will take all given space and resiz...

Hello guys, if you are a computer science graduate or new into the programming world and interested in learning Database and, SQL and looking for some awesome resourceslike books, courses, and tutoria...

I'm the lead on Santa Tracker. Yes, I know it's June right nowpretty much as far from the holidays as you can get. I want to talk about Web Components. A quick refresher: these are Custom Elements whi...

I'm beyond excited to say that I've gotten as far as being in a code boot camp!Who am I?My name is Valena and I'm on my way to becoming a full-stack web developer. A few months ago, I knew little- to...

Here is a thread I made earlier today: Do you code on the weekend? How often, whats your routine like? Ben Halpern 1 min read #discuss ...

Read the original article in CodeThat.todayTerraform is the de facto tool in a DevOps arsenal, and it helps with the enablement of infrastructure-as-code deployments. It can manage and provision softw...

I have earlier on written about why so many developers fear CSS. This is often based on either little to no knowledge or outdated knowledge. Can we help overcome the fear with new knowledge? Let us fi...

Likely StatesLet's talk about statistical mechanics for a second. Suppose we have a system of 4 particles, labeled a through d, each of which can be in one of two states. We can call them the 0 ...

Most people want to develop self-awareness. Whether we are managers, entrepreneurs, or aspiring software engineers, the more knowledge we have of our strength and weaknesses, the easier life becomes.W...

This question is directed towards more of the practical side of both Frontend and Backend programming.I have recently picked up Functional Programming and I am not sure if I should actually start buil...

Welcome everyone!I am very happy to show you BrowserWorker, my latest project. The goal of this library is to help you set up a Service Workers more easily than having to deal with a lot of verbose sy...

Image from https://medium.com/@tomsoderlund/micro-frontends-a-microservice-approach-to-front-end-web-development-f325ebdadc16Patrick, a friend of mine in the web development industry, recently alerted...

It's not a new idea that people born in the times since, or just before the digital revolution have different brains than our predecessors. We lean towards stimulation, towards a certain variability i...

Originally published at https://samvloeberghs.be on June 14, 2019 Target audienceThis article and guide on setting up a simple memory cache for an Angular Universal website or application is targ...

Right now on my team, we're in the middle of onboarding the first of several new team members. There's been lots of discussion around the team on the resources we should put into a list for those bran...

VuePress is a Vue-powered static site generator. It's great for writing technical documentation, and I've been using it in production for the Bocadillo docs site since December 2018.I recently learnt ...

- and how I discovered that browsers are awesome! This is a follow-up on my previous post, where I showed how to decode DOM nodes from the event object to detect click outside. I am going to use this ...

Recently I wrote the article and I got a comment about it. The comment was about code snippet in the article, it basically said: use <button> instead of <div role="button" tabindex="0">, b...

Some claim the machine learning field is in a crisis due to software tooling that's insufficient to ensure repeatable processes. The crisis is about difficulty in reproducing results such as machine l...

By now a lot of folks in the dev.to community are very familiar with the recent move that Free Code Camp made to get off of Medium. FCC is the leading technical content publication on Medium. Hundreds...

Hi! I am Sam. I have had the dream of being in tech since I was little, but different life events happened and I didn't pursue my dream until what I consider late. I tried multiple times to learn to c...

Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love MacrosIt's been a little while since I built a resizable dot with a slider in some esoteric stack. Time for Chapter 3! I guess it's a series now.The ...

If you're familiar with Rails, you might be reading this and wondering, "Why would I ever need to remove a database column from console? Shouldn't I be doing this through a proper Rails migration?" We...

I've been working on a lot of side projects or small apps lately, and I feel like they're all just scattered about - between Codepen, Glitch, Netlify, my own webhost, etc.It's made me wonder how other...

[Image credit - pixabay]In part 1 of these series, I shared my experience on how I've started to read software development books on a regular basis. Learning to love softw...

IntroductionWith my current client we are examining how to write effective Unit and Integration Tests as well as rework the code to make it more testable. They are moving toward a Continuous De...

We are excited to welcome two interns who will be joining us for the next ~10 weeks. @aikedaa and @devencourt will be primarily focused on non-technical tasks, ranging from engaging and supporting ne...

A few days ago, I published a post about building positive habits. Since then, I've had quite a few people reach out asking questions such asAnything about breaking bad habits? I understand it depends...

Glitch This Week is a regular series in which we round-up just some of the amazing projects that fantastic creators have made on Glitch. Here are a few projects that caught our eye this week. Get...

The jobRecently I've quit my first job, I see this as a good time to reflect on my close to two years as a web- and mobile engineer. I've come quite far both in the hard- and soft skills departm...

On mobile devices running iOS 11.3+ and modern Chrome- so, basically everyone in the western world- you can have a PWA added to your phone's home screen. This is a great and admirable goal, but gettin...

My company is sending me off to my first conference this week and I am super excited!The thing is... I have no idea what to do What are your tips for getting the most out of the experience? What shoul...

This is the first in what I hope to make a weekly series of doing design reviews for folks who are looking for feedback.In this series, I'll tackle one website, project, or app per video and post them...

Hi A well structured and beautiful README is very important, especially for opensource projects. This is the first thing that visitors will see when they discover your project.This is why I created re...

The shift from building websites using monolithic projects like Wordpress to more modern approaches like site generators, Headless CMS and deploy workflows has been accelerating in recent years. I'm w...

I saw this GIF on Twitter earlier and wanted to share. @hip...

TLDR: The hardest part of building web applications is rarely using the framework itself or even the business logic. Its cleanly integrating your app into all of the other tools involved in a modern w...

This article was originally published on my blog, where I often write about personal growth, remote work, learning to code, and women in tech.Over the years, weve all encountered our fair share of suc...

My girlfriend is currently working on a degree in Computer Science. I do my best to butt out, but sometimes when I see concepts and topics covered VERY poorly, I have to intervene. Last quarter, her c...

A couple of weeks have passed since my last post and I still really enjoy learning F#. So when I found this interesting post called "Emulator basics: a stack and register machine" in which the author ...

The .NET Core CLI comes with tons of pre-built project templates! One of the new templates that will be included with .NET Core 3 will be for building worker services.Combining .NET Core worker servic...

The .NET Core CLI comes with tons of pre-built project templates! One of the new templates that will be included with .NET Core 3 will be for building worker services.Combining .NET Core worker servic...

I've been trying to get better about writing more complete tests, but often feel I'm being somewhat redundant. Sometimes the tests I'm writing feel like they're just verifying that the language works...

Hey everyone! I'm toying with an idea for doing regular videos where I do design reviews and critiques for folks.My hope would be that beginners get a lot of benefit from it, but also seasoned develop...

I started exploring ruby recently and I'm marveled on what I could accomplish with ruby and its web framework (Ruby on Rails). This tutorial is created for the sole purpose of upcoming ruby on rails w...

Earlier this month, there was a very controversial tweet by the official Java Twitter account, telling you to stop writing code comments. Java ...

Another short one! Let's talk about the two HTML helper methods, Element.matches and Element.closest. Both of these methods are supported in modern, evergreen browsers. These are both just nice helper...

Just a quick question to see if there are a lot of crypto/block people on dev.to. How did you get into it & why?What did/do you do?Where do you see the space going?What do you think? (about anythi...

npm home packageNameThis command open package's home page.$ npm home express npm ls --depth 0List packages you installed$ npm ls --depth 0 npm pruneThis command will remove packages wh...

After much deliberation, I have decided to move my blogs away from Medium. I was considering setting up my own blog with Hugo but then decided to go with Dev.to. Below are the reasons why I decided to...

Now that the State of CSS results are in, I'm reminded of all the complaints I've had about CSS over the years.Has anyone ever tried to write a more intuitive abstraction or DSL on top of CSS? I remem...

I'm finding myself busier than ever and would love to hear what tools you use to keep yourself organized. When I was in college, I used Google Calendar for project group meetings and a paper planner f...

Step 1: Take deep breathsThe best way to overcome your escalating fear that your codebase / world is collapsing around you is deep breathing. Before frantically flying to the keyboard, just go i...

I wanted to list a few utilities that either help my productivity on Linux or make working in Linux more pleasant in some way. I really enjoy setting up tools so that they're easier to use when I use ...

Using the right tool/paradigm/solution/library/workflow for a job is widely regarded as a good idea.It's the opposite of cargo-culting, which means blindly using a tool because others do, without nece...

Things look dire. Not a small collection of smart people* are looking at the astonishing mismatch between IPCC climate models and current state of political action and imagining a near-term future tha...

Photo by TJ HolowaychukIn this article, Ill teach you how to use CSS Grid to create a super cool image grid which varies the number of columns with the width of the screen.And the most beautiful part:...

As I was reviewing the last week's career discussions, two threads from Ben Halpern stood out for the great comments that they generated.In this video I highlight some of the my favorite picks from th...

Hi. I generated a license generator plugin for Git. All contributions are welcomeYou can find it on GitHub: https://github.com/foss-dev/git-license-generator InstallationThere are two ways to ins...

In an effort to better protect our production data, last year we choose to setup a readonly production console. This allows developers to poke around production data without having to worry that they ...

I love Linux and one thing I love about it is that you can set it up just right for yourself to make yourself super productive and make working in Linux very pleasant.What are your favorite tools to s...

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Today, I present you New Blog Post a simple way to create and publish dev.to blog posts from within Visual Studio Code. InstallationTo install the or search for New Blog Post in the extensions ...

Okay, folks. This is new territory for me. I'm stepping into the world of.... t h i n k p i e c e s I've been thinking a lot about an oooold problem in the web dev community, one that's been the subje...

Welcome to the second entry in my "Design Pattern Fairy Tales" series!This series aims to give new coders, or those without a computer science background, a basic intro to design patterns. These are e...

Hello fellow gophers, I need some insights. I'm writing a command line client for larder.io bookmark in go. I have this function:func checkConfigRoute(configDir string) (string, error) { usr, err :...

Hello fellow gophers, I need some insights. I'm writing a command line client for larder.io bookmark in go. I have this function:func checkConfigRoute(configDir string) (string, error) { usr, err :...

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I have always enjoyed looking at and creating pixel art. Before online pixel makers were a thing, I used to spend hours making my own pixel art in Photoshop with the pencil tool. This article will sho...

I love Firefox, this is no secret. I find it to be a snappy browser with some phenomenal developer tools built right in.Most around me use Chrome, (or more recently Brave) and swear by their dev tools...

Introducing my new project CSSWand!Easy Copy-Paste Beautiful CSS That can be easily customized further at your own choicecheck out my new project here -https://www.csswand.dev/Help me by starring on G...

I have previously written about creating your own VS Code theme extension (in 30 minutes or less), but did you know that building your own extension pack is also incredibly easy? Extension packs are ...

For most companies, ranking #1 is like a blessing to their business. However, most of the web developers are not aware of what should be done to reach to that point.In this article we go through 10 si...

You can view the full report here: https://www.bondcap.com/report/itr19This is one of the most highly-anticipated industry reports released each year. This is a discussion thread where people can dro...

Hello Everyone!In this devlog I'll try to keep you updated with the latest state of our game. Since we all have full-time jobs, we've been working on this game only on our free time.I've been implemen...

After reflecting on the content I've put out to help people in the software industry, I've realized I still needed help working through anger issues. I mostly avoided social media for the past 5-8 yea...

A friend of mine is leading the "search" process for a major technology overhaul at his company. Basically, they are a large enterprise and are going out to seek bids as they look to modernize their ...

Friends, I'm so so excited to announce our workshops this year! We have done workshops the past two out of three years for DinosaurJS and we've learned a lot. One of those is that attendees and organi...

If you're a developer considering going freelance, the leap you want to take looks really scary. Especially if you've been employed now for any significant amount of time.And rightfully so - if you've...

The agile development process is something that all developers encounter at some point in their career. Depending on how well a company implements agile, developers develop (heh) an opinion of whether...

Inspired by a recent Twitter thread (and long-running debate anyway): are HTML and CSS programming languages?Is it gatekeep-y to say no? Marian @fyrn ...

The Amplify CLI recently added support for deploying Lambda GraphQL resolvers directly from your Amplify environment for your AppSync APIs.Using the @function directive you can specify operations to i...

One of the reasons I've been so drawn to DEV.to over other platforms is the super encouraging and helpful community that gathers here. Initially I felt like it was going to be more a place where I sat...

Support for subgrid (part of CSS Grid Level 2 specification) has landed on Firefox Nightly! Even though this is not yet getting shipped in any browser, but we can test it in the Nightly version. After...

As you may know, I've been writing periodic "Repo Recaps" for the work getting put into DEV by our team and contributing community members. The recaps are a quick summary of what is getting merged and...

Originally posted on Hint's blogAllow me to introduce you to another library that has proven itself useful when writing Ruby: the Procto gem. Procto OverviewProcto is a gem that lets you turn a R...

About half of code examples include the term foo, heres what it means and why you should never use it in your examples. Here is what foo means:Foo doesnt mean anything, its just a commonly used e...

Every Monday we round up the previous week's top posts based on traffic, engagement, and a hint of editorial curation. The typical week starts on Monday and ends on Sunday, but don't worry, we take in...

Has there ever been a time where you had to push back against something you were tasked to do because of ethical concerns?...

Theres a lot of hype on GraphQL and debate to compare it to REST. GraphQL is in the early stage of adoption globally and no one exactly knows where it will end. Researching on the internet, I was able...

As of June 2019, I've worked for Google in Sydney for ten years, starting after I graduated university. So I'll celebrate by answering your Qs! I'm part of the Web Developer Relations team. We provid...

The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be. -Ada Lovelace IntroductionToday we are going to make an autocomplete application that displays the capital and country code...

Soft skills are as critical as technical skills for a software engineer.No one works in isolation. Each person has to deal with teammates, colleagues, managers, etc. Therefore team interpersonal skill...

Explaination of Continous Integration/Continous Deployment (CI/CD)...

Originally Published on my BlogI gave a talk at the International Women's Day event at Women Tech Makers Ajah, Lagos and I've decided to turn that talk into a blog post that everyone can access. Perso...

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For the last couple weeks, I've been building a React native app at work. It's a news reader (duh) and a bit of a monster at that, with filesystem access, background downloads, and push notifications....

We can improve our error handling and composition by leveraging a Result class and several other tools from the functional programming world.Instead of throwing errors, we wrap our results. Either the...

Cover photo by Ana Cruz via unsplash.I was told to talk about my pet projects: Pet projects, the secret to keep yourself updated Yaser Adel Mehraban 4 min read ...

Building quality software is not an easy task and requires a lot of practice and experience.Important activities like writing unit tests or documentation are still seen by many as "extra" and are the ...

"Le Gastronomer"Imagine the following scenario.It's 09:53 on a Monday morning. You're sat at your desk, at work. Sunlight is filtering in through the blinds of the open plan office space, settli...

In May, I bought a tiny device that runs Linux. It comes as a board, but I bought the whole kitan enclosure, a screen/button addon, and a neat aluminum case. It also came with a 16gb microSD card cont...

I used to wonder how important it was to have individual pages versus a single scroll site. After learning how the DOM worked, I realized that pages are better for search engine indexing. A functional...

Originally published at https://samvloeberghs.be on March 12, 2019 Target audienceThis article and guide on generating JSON-LD with Angular Universal is targeted to developers that want to genera...

This was a useful post about helping folks making the most of Twitter for their developer career that you might want to check out: Why and How You Should Use Twitter for N...

What is this?If you are new to JavaScript it is only a matter of time before you run into the concept of the this keyword. The this keyword is the JavaScript context object in which the current ...

What Is A Habit?The University College London defines habits as "behaviours which are performed automatically because they have been performed frequently in the past. This repetition creates a mental ...

I've been working remotely for nearly 7 years now, and I couldn't imagine ever going into an office on a daily basis again. It's a magical setup that affords incredible freedom, and far more responsib...

Hi!I made a little side project where you can get feedback by 20 fresh eyeballs for your website or app. And even by 40 fresh eye balls. They will tell you why they wouldn't use your service and what'...

What is Server Side Rendering (SSR) ?That's often a tricky question for a lot of people, where answers range from "it's good for static websites" to "I used it for my blog". But what is it really? Let...

Disclaimer: This post isn't for bragging. I've had people ask me whether or not Twitter is worth it.I joined Twitter less than 60 days ago. As of this writing, I have 358 followers, am following 460 o...

The monad is a powerful design pattern that, when used correctly, can completely change how you think about handling values in Javascript (JS). This introductory tutorial is for any level of JS famili...

I've been recently asked this question in an interview and this was my answer: Pure unit tests and shallow rendering ideaFor ReactJS in particular, there are many testing libraries that allow you...

A little while back, I started a repo of funny (and insightful!) programming quotes and proverbs. These often take a shape of an existing proverbs (like Rome wasn't built in a day) and get translated ...

Mike Piccolo @mfpiccolo I really wish this is how I could write components. 04:08 ...

Have you ever found yourself wanting to modify and update a data structure throughout the life of your application? Take the following code:const obj = {}const modifyObj = (key, value) => { obj[ke...

Glitch This Week is a regular series in which we round-up just some of the amazing projects that fantastic creators have made on Glitch. Here are a few projects that caught our eye this week. Mak...

You can't be in the web development field without hearing about DevOps. It's like this thing that everybody knows about, but nobody really understands. Hopefully by the time you finish reading this yo...

My team have a lot of roles to fill this year and recruitment is underway. We will be hiring and onboarding new developers, analysts and engineers in quick succession over the next few months.I'm cur...

Target audienceThis article and guide on better sharing on social media platforms with Angular Universal is targeted to developers that have at least a basic understanding of Angular and might a...

Table of contentsIntroductionFile PermissionsFile TypeFile ModeChange File ModeOctal ModeSymbolic Mode IntroductionThe multi-user capability of Unix-like systems is a feature that is deeply...

Originally posted at AgileCoder.net several years ago, but with the summer kids camp season upon us I thought I would repost it.Several years ago I volunteered at Kids Code Conference 2015 put on by U...

Follow me on Twitter, happy to take your suggestions on topics or improvements /ChrisDeploy your Docker containers to the CloudThis article takes you through setting up a private container registry in...

Just in case you missed it, here's the recording from my Live Coding session on Twitch!I refactored a large file down from 75 lines of code to about 25. I created a plugin system to dynamically load e...

Dan Abramov, in response to a React developer asking why Suspense was not responding to the fetch API:From the legend Dan Abramov himself, we receive such gems as There is [no data fetching solution c...

This article discusses what the local storage is and JavaScript methods that we can use to manipulate it.I have always known about the local storage but I never got to use it on any project. So I deci...

One of the reasons I've been so drawn to DEV.to over other platforms is the super encouraging and helpful community that gathers here. Initially I felt like it was going to be more a place where I sat...

Now that I am back to writing as I explained in my previous post I will kick start it with the basic setup needed in order to be able to run the code I will be sharing in posts here in the near future...

I had a couple of people ask me on tips to passing the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Practitioner exam so I made a little video on resources I used and tips I learned.Resources like... A Cloud Guru ...

Welcome to the much-belated Part 2 of my Laravel Authentication series! As promised, in this chapter we'll be diving more into the nuts and bolts of the authentication process. We'll also look at the ...

GitHub Desktop 2.0 expands to support stashing and rebasingI'm a fan of this app for some of my workflows, but always felt there was a lot to be desired. So I am definitely happy about this. Al...

Perfect is the enemy of done.Done is better than perfect.After having a pet project essentially completed for a few weeks, I decided to just throw it up on Netlify and finish the remaining tweaks late...

As an Azure Advocate, one of the things I spend my time doing is learning the easiest ways for beginners to use the tools built right into Azure. Today I want to share with you a few ways to utilize s...

Hi everyone. In this post, I'll introduce the Bocadillo framework. As you know, there are a lot of web frameworks in Python.In the past days, I was looking for new technologies to improve myself. I sa...

Hey everyone, I want this to be a very casual conversation. I'm looking to set up my personal workspace this month and will love to see pictures of your workspaces for inspiration....

Background ContextMy startup co-founder recently wrote an article on what I previously considered "common knowledge", an article which went "viral".Unfortunately, as per the rules of the interne...

Photo by Umanoide on Unsplash Caveat emptorUsing AWS costs money, some of these services may not be part of the AWS Free Tier. You can keep costs down by tearing down anything you've created whil...

One statement that really gets to me is when I hear people state that a requirement of an inclusive team is that it is diverse. While many inclusive teams are diverse, NOT all of them are. Diversity a...

As weve learned more and more about distributed systems, weve seen the many ways that things can wrong. More specifically, weve seen that there are just so many possible scenarios in which a portion o...

Air quality - much has been said about it in the recent years. Research is coming out saying that breathing polluted air contributes to risk of asthma attacks, allergies, and other health issues. One ...

tl;dr my opinion : use const by default, only use let if required. HistoryJavaScript has three* ways to declare variables:var x = 123;let y = 456;const z = 789;The first, var, comes from the orig...

This article goes over how you can add Google reCaptcha v3 to a Rails app and use it to verify a form submission.I couldn't find any other how-to articles in English on how to specifically add the new...

Now I have an idea for the IoT project I want to make its time to think about how to go about building it. As I stated in the prologue I dont have any experience building a proper IoT project so this ...

Lately, I've been playing around with Azure Functions to automate different parts of my life. Just today, as I was building a demo using Functions for an upcoming work project, I looked up at the cloc...