Articles by Dev To from August 2019

Photo by Cathryn Lavery on UnsplashThere's been an awesome sort of article floating around DEV for some time: one where the author publicly journals their experiences as a developer. ...

The GistMy morning started out like most people's, as I sat down at my computer while eating a bacon-egg-and-cheese on an everything bagel. And then, like everyone's morning it quickly made a ha...

OK so I teach Computer Science full time in a Secondary/High school. And have my own software company for which I write/maintain the programs. I teach 11-18 years the theory of programming and how to ...

Recently, one of my friends, Jamie Hall, wrote a really great, practical tutorial titled "Get good at git". In it, he introduces the basic workflows you need to know to use the version control system ...

There is so many terminology which means the same or almost the same. Let's figure out what is what.What is common in function, lambda, procedure, routine (subroutine), program (subprogram), applicati...

If you click the share link on Stack Overflow you now see three options where there were once only two.If you click the DEV icon, you'll be brought to a DEV editor with a prefilled Stack Overflow liqu...

Cover Photo by Asa Rodger on UnsplashIf we read the OnDestroy lifecycle hook api description Angular OnDestroy we can use it on services.But more than this information, we cannot find on it. If we loo...

Ive talked about why you should get off the tutorial treadmill and just-in-time learning as a more practical alternative, but, when the time comes that you need to build something outside your skill s...

This is our 105th edition of the Friday Frontend! That means weve now been running for over 2 years straight. Thank you so much for continuing to follow along, and do let me know if theres anything yo...

If you ever stumbled upon a piece of vanilla JavaScript code and wanted to refactor it to a module, or have a CommonJS module and want to convert it to ES6 Modules, you might have faced a couple of tr...

Being a developer does not come without its heartache. We deal with complex requests, tight deadlines, and unforeseen variables (e.g. major change requests).It's always good to have a few strategies i...

How to deal with rejectionAs a lifelong nerd and self-taught web developer, I've had a long time to get used to rejection, whether it be in my personal life, applying for a job, or submitting a ...

They both represent a empty value. Difference nr 1!When you define a variable but not assign a value to it, it automatically puts a placeholder which is called undefined so you don't have do it m...

In the past few weeks, we have watched Tableau be purchased by Salesforce for 15.7 billion dollars and Looker for 2.7 billion dollars by Google.Why are these companies so valuable?Why are so many comp...

An often overlooked, underappreciated, and seemingly mundane stage of the development cycle is the process of writing a changelog. For those who are unaware, a changelog is basically a simple list of ...

The challenge of building a truly reactive microservice with a relational databaseIn 2011, when reactive applications started to become more common in Java, I often joked about them as accessing...

What are the little things that keep people happy and productive with the relationship?...

Many people think software is some rigid, grinding environment. You have a list of tasks to get done and you do them in the prioritized order. What people don't see is how much creativity it takes to ...

So the story begins with one of my favourite Youtube channels. A few days ago, they've published a new video announcing that they will soon reach their 100k subscriber and on that occasion will give o...

When you write tests for the backend, you need to test for four different kinds of operations:Create (for adding things to the database)Read (for getting things from the database)Update (for changing ...

Is this the best JavaScript book?Today were taking a look at the modern classic Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming (3rd Edition) by Marijn Haverbeke. Celina the cat is als...

Some people who know me personally well and have been involved in my professional career for the past 4 years, know that I'm very passionate and increasingly vocal about diversity and inclusion in tec...

Liyas joins @emmawedekind, @neilonsoftware, @andrewbrown, @mjraadi, @room_js, @iam_timsmith, @fullstack_to, @espoir, @helenanders26, @philnash, @florinpop17 and @lauragift21 in the club as the 13th wi...

I just made my very first PR to a non-DEV open-source repo. I noticed a typo in the README of @liyasthomas's Postwoman project so I submitted a PR that changed just three characters. ...

This post is will cover: A brief overview of v-forUsing v-for to display items from an arrayAdding alternating colors to the itemsAdding multiple colors to the itemsNote: I'll be using <template>...

I was recently called to speak at a huge Brazilian conference called The Conf. The whole point of the conference is to create content in English, in a way that others can benefit from it in the future...

Building high-quality apps is hard for many reasons:The more your codebase grow, the more it becomes hard to maintain.Developers have different way to code, which can confuse you and slow you down.Jav...

Cover photo by https://unsplash.com/@manucosen Programming in Japan Table of ContentsIntroQualificationsStarting My Career HereWorking ConditionsHoursPaid LeaveContracts and RulesWorking in ...

What is the Vue Community guide?Do you know which UI framework to use for your next Vue project?Have you wondered what is the best way write a mobile app with Vue?What are the best books, blogs ...

This post was originally published on my personal blog site.Welcome back! This is the second in a series of posts that will teach you how to build a blog site using React and Firebase. If you haven't ...

.NET Conf is a FREE, 3-day virtual developer event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft. This year .NET Core 3.0 will launch at .NET Conf 2019! Come celebrate and learn about the new relea...

Originally published at https://sergiodxa.com/articles/next-file-structure/React doesn't have a strong opinions on how to structure your files. Similarly Next.js has a few opinions, create a pages and...

If you've ever considered pursuing a career in software engineering but thought you were too old or that your education and career path up to this point weren't a fit, think again! My path to a career...

Not necessarily how it's "supposed" to be pronounced, what do you say? (in your head or aloud) How do you pronounce sudo? soo-doo soo-dough ...

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.Answering What is a good team l...

We started to use Intercom the classic way: we wanted a simple way for people to reach out to us. Whether they were curious visitors or existing users, Intercom gave us a great way to interact with fo...

Edit: less clickbaity title(*ok, it was 105 lines)We started to use Intercom the classic way: we wanted a simple way for people to reach out to us. Whether they were curious visitors or existing users...

Before we dive into hover let's get some foundational knowledge out of the way. What is a pseudo-class?To start, pseudo-classes are a keyword that follows a selector and appears after a colon (:). Som...

The product backlog is probably one of the most controversial and misunderstood artifacts of an agile organization. Everybody seems to have an opinion about what should be on it, how it should be orga...

This post was originally published on my personal blog site.Welcome! This is the first in a series of posts that will teach you how to build a blog site using React and Firebase. This one will probabl...

Hi, I'm the product manager leading the development of Stack Overflow's flagship product, public Q&A. Last week, I shared an update on our blog about what we're working on and why. Building Stack ...

Cover Image: Black and Silver Laptop Computer on Round Brown Wooden Table by Christina MorilloThese days, most developers are using some form of version control, and the most popular version control s...

There is an ongoing discussion about the difference between object-oriented programming (OOP) and functional programming (FP). Let's talk about similarities instead. Let's talk about the main building...

How does mentoring work? I asked this question ten years into my software engineering career when I joined Uber. Until then, I've never received or done mentoring, or at least never put this label on ...

Hi! I'm Helen, one of your friendly mods looking after the #sql and #database tags. At the end of each month, I'll be showcasing some of the great posts, projects and insights from the data community...

The GistDifferent programming languages have different features, or paradigms, that can be used to classify them.Today we'll take a look at the two main ones, functional and object-oriented. ...

Originally posted here: https://blog.bitsrc.io/4-practical-use-cases-for-regular-expressions-b6ab140894fd How to stop fearing the RegExp object and learn to love itRegular expressions are often f...

Open Source and Emoji Enthusiast @mlteal at WordCamp Phoenix 2019We go over the basics of setting up a local WordPress development environment using Docker and some of the benefits of containerized de...

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...

This morning I came across an article that struck me as a fantastic discussion topic: Why Are So Many Developers Hating on Object-Oriented Programming? by David Cassel. "Hmm, sure it has its quirks bu...

Brace yourself as this post is going to be a little less straightforward than the last ones as we are going to talk about how to read/write UTF-8 strings from/to WebAssembly (Wasm) memory views! ...

Side projects are an excellent way to express yourself creatively and build up your tech stack. But how do you find time to work on your side project when you have a full-time job and other responsibi...

A coworker (who is new to our codebase) recently asked me to add print statements, specifically console.log() statements (as we're using React Native), to our codebase wherever an "important event" ha...

The Web Speech API has two functions, speech synthesis, otherwise known as text to speech, and speech recognition. With the SpeechSynthesis API we can command the browser to read out any text in a num...

Hey All!Ive noticed a trend where teams and/or schools will create a VS Code extension pack, and use that to simplify the acquisition of all extensions needed to work on a project or curriculum (e.g. ...

Ever since I finished up at the Flatiron School at the end of May, I've been trying to come up with a cool, new project idea. But here I am, almost three months later and I haven't started one. I've b...

Series of EventsA take on Vue developers vs. React developers is tweeted.A number of the deleted posts in the tweet above is from Dan Abramov (defending the React community).A subtweet (thread) ...

I wanted to take a look at the mobile apps available to manage my Git repositories and GitHub projects. I was expecting to find just a couple of options but, to my surprise, there are dozens of apps t...

What is the most important quality for the team lead?The strongest side of team lead (IMO) is human skills. The main task of team lead is to support morale in the team, to help people, to resolve conf...

From my interactions with peers, Ive found most of us (if not all) often dread interviews, especially when you realize that the hiring process across the industry is broken. This is due to events like...

Lazy loading resources is one of the important parts of web performance tuning, simply because offscreen resources can add a lot of weight to your page if loaded eagerly. IntroI've gone through m...

Awesome Animation CSS Hamburger Menu - HTML5 CSS3 TutorialDo Not Forget To Like & Subscribe In The Channel:...

Who will win? IDs or classes?We may be able to answer this question by looking at the context, and the differences between each one.Lets jump right in! What is CSS Specificity?CSS Specificity is ...

Photo by Kelly Sikkema on UnsplashThere isnt a way to monitor stickiness of a component in CSS (position: sticky).This nice article on Google, An event for CSS position:sticky shows how to emulate sti...

IntroductionIn this post, I'd like to detail a few bits of advice upon starting my first job as a Software Developer Intern. To quickly introduce myself, I'm currently studying my Bachelor's in...

Refactoring organizations_controller.rb. #3793 FeruzOripov commented on Aug 22, 2019 ...

I just got back from a 2 week vacation. This was my first long vacation since I really have sunk my teeth into passion projects, and I found myself coding more than I anticipated. Personally, I plug i...

Today we going to solve the Daily Challenge #47 - Alphabets in rust by applying test driven development (TDD) methodologies. Don't worry we will do very little steps and the full code is available as ...

IntroductionOver the last decade, AngularJS has been one of the "coolest kids on the block, substituting several of the weaknesses that came with jQuery-based net engineering solutions. Many ent...

#timeless #fundamentals How to Build Good SoftwareBad software is one of the few things in the world you cannot solve with money. This article argues that it is not the engineering choices that a...

Say you had an unknown number of <div> elements and (for some reason) you wanted to count them and number each other them automatically - how would you do it? If you're like me, your first thoug...

IntroductionShipping new features is exciting and as software developers, we want to see our code running in production. However, there are some actions, questions, and steps that one can take b...

In working on a new product, I made a new (to me) discovery -- cyclic streams. It is actually not a new concept, but I had not run across this pattern before. I wanted to describe it quickly for the t...

I read an interesting article about Engineering Culture at Shutterstock and the illustration of IC vs Management Career Tracks made me think about how inconsistent it is across the industry. I've foun...

I like tweeting about pages I read in the following format:"Headline"https://example.comMost "share this" buttons add a lot of cruft and if there is none, it is annoying having to copy the text first ...

Hey Dev community! Hit me with your favorite front-end/UI developer interview questions. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Accessibility etc. Helping a student today prep for a final interview ...

Maintaining version management can be challenging when the desire for innovation and growth of the project gets in the way. Last year, GitHub announced their migration from Rails 3.2 to 5. As mentione...

As a teacher, I get a lot of questions from students on how to learn more about programming outside of class, and until now I havent had a really good answer. At long last, Ive collected my thoughts a...

Creating platforms for the web has always been as simple as learning to write HTML, throwing in look and feel with some CSS, and then, possibly a bit of JavaScript or any other scripting language for ...

Azure Cosmos DB has a cool feature called the Change Feed which allows us to perform real-time analytics on our container by listening to any changes that occur within the container.These changes are ...

Cover Image: Woman Wearing Red and Black Checkered Blouse Using Macbook by Christina MorilloI spend a considerable amount of my time pair programming.I'd say it is how I spend most of my time programm...

As career developers, it's natural that we want to measure our progress. We want to be able to see how far we've come and then look ahead to where we would like to be in the future. We want to know ho...

There is no doubt, you have probably used npm in your project at least once. npm helps us with finding, installing and updating various project dependencies and packages. There are few things to keep ...

Stubs and Mocks are two foundational concepts in testing that are often misunderstood. So much so, that we have the famous Martin Fowler article on the subject, alongside numerous stackoverflow questi...

Always we hate to type or search or copy and paste most often used commands in the terminal.I found a great tool to ease the navigation in the terminal, called Apparix. It lets you bookmark a folder s...

I recently upgraded our production app from Rails 5.2.3 to Rails 6.0.0. We wanted access to all the shiny things everyone is talking about. Multiple databases! Better autoloading! Everything was going...

I really like using Ruby's Array#dig and Hash#dig operator (introduced in Ruby 2.3) to quickly and safely access deeply nested structuresI would love to see different versions of it in other languages...

In my contract with my ISP, they gave me a range of speeds to expect but also a speed that was the guaranteed minimum. If they aren't able to keep above this minimum, I'm eligible for a discount a few...

We know that DEV is a global community, so let's show off just how far-reaching it truly is. Grab some of your DEV swag, or even just bring up the DEV homepage on your laptop, take a picture, then pos...

Many people tend to add a lot of mysticism around Googles search algorithm (also known as Page Rank) because it somehow always manages to show us the result were looking for in the first few pages (ev...

I am native Spanish speaker, although English billingual. However, taking coding courses or classes in Spanish feels odd to me.I think that part of it is due to that I have always learnt coding stuff ...

The fear that comes along with making the decision to change careers is overwhelming at times. There were moments that I wondered if I made the right choice in moving on from my previous career. There...

I've been trying to expand my network, and I'm particularly passionate about building relationships with software engineers in other parts of the world.I asked Twitter to recommend a few new faces for...

This post is inspired and credited in large part to @yechielk. He posted this tweet last night and I, like everyone else, also wanted to add emojis that reacted to the success of my commands! ...

Today's episode of Byte Sized is about Herman Hollerith, IBM, and the creation of the Hollerith Machine and Radix Sort.For more about Radix Sort, check out this post: Gett...

Chrome is hands down one of the best browsers to work with. The debugging tools are great and you can add a lot of other functionality through extensions. These little programs other developers write ...

There are several different ways you can learn how to code. In a recent Ladybug episode, we discussed computer science degrees, bootcamps, and self-directed learning. Each has benefits and have brough...

I started working on Selfies 2020 in April 2019, wanting to recreate a 1999 game called sissyfight 2000 with a modern twist. It is a 'tongue-in-cheek', social media game theory multiplayer game where ...

Emma joins @neilonsoftware, @andrewbrown, @mjraadi, @room_js, @iam_timsmith, @fullstack_to, @espoir, @helenanders26, @philnash, @florinpop17 and @lauragift21 in the club as the twelfth winner of this ...

Recently I attended the Angular Denver Conference in Denver, Colorado. It was an awesome experience and one of the biggest takeaways I brought home was the power of RxJS.While I was at the conference ...

I am six months into my first dev job, and have had some time to reflect on my experience so far. I don't think I have ever been this in-tune with and plugged-in to a job; I think it is due to the ver...

I am six months into my first dev job, and have had some time to reflect on my experience so far. I don't think I have ever been this in-tune with and plugged-in to a job; I think it is due to the ver...

This project is hosted on Glitch: https://glitch.com/~daily-nasaOnce a day, NASA features an astronomy or space science related image through their public API. The images are pretty cool and tea...

Originally posted on a11ywithlindsey.com.Hey friends! In this post, I am going to walk you through a newer media query (to me): prefers-reduced-motion.Quick confession: I know CSS fundamentals, but I ...

The first interview I ever publicized was my chat with Kent C. Dodds. For the few of you who haven't had the pleasure, Kent is an Open Source engineer with a passion for teaching others. Ja...

This is part 2! 26. Culture fit is dangerousCulture fit might be one of the most dangerous concepts in any hiring process.My first job included a pretty stringent culture fit interview in the hir...

IntroductionIn this post I'll try to cover everything you need to know to get started with JSDoc. I'll also share with you some other cool stuff I learned about it that you might find useful. ...

CASE is SQLs answer to other programming languages IF-ELSE statement. If you need to test a condition and return a value CASE is the expression you need.IntroductionSyntaxCASE with one conditionCASE ...

One of the challenges of diving deeper into RxJS, or Reactive Extensions for JavaScript, is the terminology. We may know the basics of using RxJS, but to really understand how it works, we need a firm...

Each week, thousands of new people join the DEV Community. These are programmers of all backgrounds and experience levels, from all around the world.Many of these folks choose to introduce themselves...

This past week I got invited to attend Twilio Signal conference in San Francisco as part of their Champions program.I had the chance to meet other awesome Champions at our Summit. You should all follo...

According to Net Market Share, Google is still the search engine leader with 75% of searches made on Google.com. With that in mind, following their best SEO practices is a good strategy and something ...

Core concepts, features and building blocksThis is a summary post I wrote for myself after completing Kubernetes: Up and Running. I decided it would be a good way of forcing myself to review what Ive ...

Youve got work to do, but:The leftover pizza in the kitchen is seriously calling your name.Your favorite developer is live on Twitter.You just got three new smartphone notifications.Everything is ten ...

Hey guys. We all know that this happens - waiting for a new project, a new task... Sometimes it happens for days or weeks. What do you do then?Normally I read about my technology stack, do some challe...

Last week I wrote Using Active Support Concerns to Encapsulate Data Access and Validation, where I explained how to use Active Support concerns to define data access and validation rules for an Active...

The school year is starting, and freshmen everywhere are taking CS101 (or some equivalent) in their respective universities!It's an exciting time, but it's also the beginning of a 4-year struggle for ...

This week on the Ladybug Podcast, we talked about my advice for becoming an entrepreneur. I also wanted to share my story of how I became a freelancer and eventually an agency owner. My Entrepren...

This was originally posted on: chrisachard.comRails 6 was released on August 15, 2019 with a blog post by DHHSo - what's new, and what about old Rails versions? Rails 4 & 5 Support for R...

A subtitle of this talk could be: How to Grow by Giving.Ali is pretty well known in the Dev.to community and has built a sizeable following on Twitter by investing heavily into other developers. She i...

Imagine a world where you're constantly discouraged from speaking too much or from talking too loudly. Imagine a work environment where socializing with others is actually seen as a distraction, rathe...

Imagine a world where you're constantly discouraged from speaking too much or from talking too loudly. Imagine a work environment where socializing with others is actually seen as a distraction, rathe...

If you have faced a code like below, then this article will help you in multiple ways .fetchPizzas() .then((pizzas) = { return sortByToppings(pizzas) .then((pizzas) = { return checkDel...

This post has originally been published on https://juristr.com/blog/2019/07/testing-cypress-intro. Go to juristr.com/blog for more contentWriting automated tests has become like a standard practice in...

Over the last year and a half, I've been the lead on a project to create and implement a robust Component Library. Our Component Library been a hugely beneficial effort that's made our suite of web ap...

You've watched the Youtube videos, you've done the tutorials on Pluralsight and you consider yourself a Javascript expert.However, now you want to hang with all of the cool kids and talk about functio...

For the next phase in this series, we'll learn how to make a CLI app to perform CRUD operations, i.e, Creating, Retrieving, Updating and Deleting data. We'll use Firebase to store our data. What ...

TLDR:Checkout the implementation example here:Live Demo Let's Open a url in new tab from within our website HTML WAY<a href="https://malicious-domain.netlify.com" target="_blank">Visit...

This article is intended to suggest a better way to handle errors when using async/await syntax. Prior knowledge of how promises work is important. From Callback Hell to PromisesCallback Hell, al...

Originally published on Android Essence. As an Android developer, one of the questions I constantly see asked within the community is "what architecture pattern should I use?"This discussion usually l...

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...

You love the developer conferences you've been to. You learn a lot, meet great people and come back feeling energized to try out new ideas. You think to yourself, we should have a developer conference...

Powerlifting may not be your thing, but you can always find ways to take what you've learned from your hobbies and apply them to your work as a developer. These are just some of the things power...

We are currently living in a dark mode in everything era. Most apps nowadays come with a switch either at the navbar or just somewhere around its settings, that you just click and the screen goes dark...

There is no shortage of articles about impostor syndrome on dev.to and other programming websites. It's a perennial topic for developers. It will ALWAYS be something we have to deal with. It's a caree...

I just got done reading American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road and I can't recommend it enough as a purely entertaining book that is very much on-topic for a ...

We are pleased to introduce the Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange liquid tags. These embeds, assembled in native HTML within posts (as opposed to iframe, JavaScript, etc.) are designed for telling bet...

If you haven't heard of roblox, you will soon.It's one of the largest growing video game market sites, with a 46%* increase in members since last year.Some stats:Monthly amount of Roblox engagement: ...

In our first CSS episode, we discussed the foundations. In this special bonus episode, we continued the conversation by covering some more in-depth areas of CSS, like layouts with Grid and Flexbox, an...

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...

Mentoring is one of the best ways to help junior developers grow their skills. As a mid-level or senior developer, it's up to you to decide what kind of mentor you want to be. The most important thing...

I recently started working with PyTorch, a Python framework for neural networks and machine learning. Since machine learning involves processing large amounts of data, sometimes it can be hard to unde...

Do you run an open-source project? Use Visual Studio Code and its extensive set of extensions when maintaining your project or even coding day to day?If you have an extension or set of them you prefer...

I have FINALLY gotten my code editor to be my ideal setup. But now I'm curious, what does your code editor/IDE look like? EditorI'm using VS Code. Although I've used Sublime Text and Atom Editor ...

Generate a cover image for your Dev.to article online.Some of the features are Generate Cover Image Online. Drag and drop - Change content position easily Insert image from computer Quick Insert Prog...

When it comes to programming, there are certain conventions, idioms, and principles that we run into and reference as a community quite often. One of those principles is the idea of Dont Repeat Yourse...

There is a lot of hype around functional programming(FP) and a lot of cool kids are doing it but it is not a silver bullet. Like other programming paradigms/styles, functional programming also has its...

Hi Dev Community,I have over 100 files in the following structure (called a FASTA -- very familiar to those of you who spend time looking at genetic data):Original File 1:>Gene1_id1GATCGATCCGAATGCA...

I learnt about pair programming at university when we were studying Agile methodologies. At the time it seemed very full-on almost scary. I pictured myself stumbling over my keyboard as my co-worker ...

A: B: testC: initial commitOr suggest your own answer....

In case you hadn't read the news, Verizon sold Tumblr to Automattic. Verizon owned Tumblr after it acquired Yahoo! and Automattic is the company behind Wordpress.The price was around 3m, a remarkable ...

*Congratulations, you are a proud terminal owner! *When I first switched to Linux, I avoided my terminal like the plague. Now I don't know how I managed without my terminal!But I think there is a lot ...

Welcome back to Elixir Alchemy, and to the third part in our series on implementing the Go game using Phoenix LiveView. In part one, we set up the game using LiveView and in part two, we added Game hi...

React hooks simplify the process of creating reusable, clean and versatile code, and advanced optimization techniques like memoization are now more accessible and easier to use. Reacts official docume...

I few days ago I got an idea for a VS Code extension that shows the initial (default) value of a given CSS property on hover. This solves a real problem for me because most of the time I use the defau...

There are many infrastructure design patterns. In this post, I want to dig into the circuit breaker pattern. This pattern's name comes from electrical engineering and circuit breakers. Circuit B...

We all know that Peter Griffin Family Guy gif of him unable to work some blinds. This gif is always associated with the frustrations of CSS. Something changes, then something breaks. Why do people hav...

DISCLAIMER: I know have a reputation for my strong dislike of Javascript, but I assure you, this post has nothing to do with that opinion. If you can code responsibly in JS, and it seems to you the be...

It's time for part 2 of my JavaScript Basics series! This week we are reviewing closures. I think it is very likely that many beginner programmers understand this concept, but might not recognize that...

As someone who has been developing web applications for almost 20 years now, I have seen it all. I started in FrontPage, moved to Dreamweaver, nested tables inside of tables and learned how to float a...

IntroductionA good number of web applications have evolved from static websites that just display content to dynamic webpages where users access and interact with content. This content is often ...

This is an anonymous post sent in by a member who does not want their name disclosed. Please be thoughtful with your responses, as these are usually tough posts to write. Email [email protected] if you'd l...

I am, by nature, a tinkerer. When putting a design together rarely am I satisfied on my first attempt. Rarely, am I satisfied with my design until iteration 3, 4 or even 5. Let's see how a limited set...

We saw on the previous part how to make it much easier to create content from JavaScript, however we are still left with a rather tedious way to express our DOM nodes. Let's see how we can make this a...

If you are anyone that has tried to use a terminal on PC, I am sorry for your suffering. The standard Command Prompt provided in Windows with Powershell is less than ideal for Web Development. Below a...

I was incredibly chuffed to have been able to speak at the inaugural Talk.CSS in Melbourne recently, and after the event, I had a nice chat with one of the attendees about sub-pixel rendering issues f...

Theory vs PracticeIt seemed simple. Use a 4K monitor to run multiple computer screens simultaneously. There are dozens of choices for this. Picture by Picture (PBP) is a feature so common you'll...

Recently I have been expanding the codebase for my website and blog in order to have a more robust web presence. Part of this of course includes unit testing the source code using Jest. This code base...

My favorite accessibility resource is the web-a11y Slack group, which I came across by accident earlier this year. It's a great place to ask questions, and you can search through years of messages to ...

It's been a while since one of the X can do that posts I've been publishing. Furthermore, Firefox Developer tools is just getting better and better everyday, so I thought it's about time I write one f...

Ive always been interested in making a package for Laravel so I thought I would make a simple example package and share what I had learnt from the process. The package is very simple and just contains...

Dev/Tools/TechUnityUnity 2019.1.14 / 2018.4.6CryEngine5.6 Audio Upgrades Preview CE Launcher Update 1.10.2GodotVulkan progress report #2VR/ARGetting Started w/ The Unity GPU Profiler for Oculus Quest ...

Sometimes you start a new job and quickly realize it's not a good fit. What's your worst new job story?...

Trolls and bots have a huge and often unrecognized influence on social media. They are used to influence conversations for commercial or political reasons. They allow small hidden groups of people to ...

Note: This is old content from GarrettMickley.com. I am no longer pursuing a game design career, but I didnt want the content to go to waste, so Im relocating it here. I hope the Dev.to community find...

This post won't teach you how to become a "whiteboard coder," but it will help you gain some of the soft skills necessary to master the interview process. Do Your ResearchMake sure to look ...

While browsing dev.to one of these days, I came across a post that triggered a lot of memories and emotions in me. In this post, @kaydacode talked about her uncomfortable experience being pregnant and...

Hi Guys!Redux is the most popular state management library at the time of this writing.Partly because it is mostly used with the most popular framework React.So what is Redux? It's a predictable...

Maybe youre thinking about accepting that job offer or just starting to think about what the next stepping point in your career as a developer is. You dont want to go full blown project management, b...

Follow me on Twitter, happy to take your suggestions on topics or improvements /ChrisThis article is part of a series, this is part I. VS Code - snippet creation, covers who to author snippetsVS Code ...

In this tutorial, we are going to explore one of the most cutting edge technologies in machine learning AIcomputer vision! To showcase its capabilities, this step-by-step article will walk you through...

When we find a new bug in our applications or a test randomly fails in CI, frequently, the bug came to exist as the unintended side effect of another change.There are a lot of blog posts and documents...

"Achieving what now?!"In this article we will be looking at how to achieve causal consistency, a concept that captures causal relationships between operations in a software system. We'll do this by lo...

Today marks one full year since DEV went open source. Operating out in the open has become such a core value and entrenched principle of how we build software that it's hard to imagine it's only been ...

Pair programming is an interesting practice that's picking up in popularity. For some shops, that's the only way they work. Two developers, one screen, one chunk of code at a time. Usually one develop...

This post was originally featured on debugacademy.com.Navigation bars are one of the main components of a website. Thats where the important things are that help people navigate your site (hence the n...

AnyChart 8.7.0 is out with new cool JavaScript charting features.Here're the quick highlights of what was added to AnyChart JS Charts in this major update:Client-side exportPolygonal selection in maps...

NB: This post was originally published on Heavybit's Blog on June 27th, 2019Cover image by Wynand van Poortvliet on Unsplash Part 2: Mid-Stage Growth ConsiderationsIn Part 1 of Building Blocks fo...

I know, I know. I've been on a bad run lately with doing reader question Mondays on Tuesdays.But I have what I think of as a pretty good excuse.For my wife's birthday, we spent the weekend in New Orle...

Consider you are deploying an application on a server which is maintained by Git versioning system. You clone the git repository through your own credentials and setup the system. When you run git pul...

It's always a good time to review the basics of your programming language! In this series I'll be reviewing some fundamentals of JavaScript. It is important that we refresh ourselves on how the langu...

Hey there, it's me. It's been quite a while since I've posted, so I'd like to take this opportunity to dump a lot of thoughts, struggles and vulnerability. Please be kind as this is mostly my inner vo...

Andrew joins @mjraadi, @room_js, @iam_timsmith, @fullstack_to, @espoir, @helenanders26, @philnash, @florinpop17 and @lauragift21 in the club as the fourth winner of this badge. .ltag__user__id__1...

Note: I am not a Firebase affiliate What is Firebase?Firebase is a collection of tools provided by Google including tools such as cloud databases, authentication, hosting, and serverless function...

Few things are more satisfying to me than one elegant line of Bash that automates hours of tedious work. As part of some recent explorations into automatically re-creating my laptop with Bash scripts ...

Edit: An earlier version of this post's title seemed to suggest I encouraged moving away from GitHub. This was not, in fact, the intention, so the title has been revised.Few things are more satisfying...

I'm Matt, and I'm the Founder / Creator of all the content you see from us - I also run a podcast called The Learning Developers Podcast that we've been running since April.It's got 2000+ listens from...

This article was originally published on www.brianemilius.com/portfolio-ideas. Visit www.brianemilius.com/blog/ for more content.Last week I wrote up a list of advice for beginner web developers. One ...

Click the image to get to the free full-length CSS Variables course.If you havent heard of CSS Variables before, its a new feature of CSS which gives you the power of variables in your stylesheet, wit...

IntroductionI am often asked by many friends who are in another industrial sector: what should I learn to become a Web developer, and where should I start?These questions are crucial, and beside...

If you haven't caught the live stream where we did this, check it out here! While this post is informative and will cover most of what we worked on, I genuinely cannot reproduce that level of comedy a...

Find me on medium(Edit: Read the comments to find my comment about a good modern program for programmers that I use every day to take notes with that supports syntax like React/JSX, made with react. I...

I did an Ask Me Anything over the weekend that turned out to be incredibly popular; it's already my fourth most read DEV post... I've Trained Programming Interns For 6+ Ye...

Have you ever been scared to contribute to a conversation or publish a blog post because you were worried you werent qualified enough? Wondered how you got to the point youre at in your career because...

You might wonder why I added a picture of a blue alien as my cover image. It's a character from one of my favourite movies "Home" and his name is Oh. Oh like Big "Oh" notation. Get it ?Let us get seri...

I discovered something while refactoring my Svelte code that blew my mind: Jesse Skinner @jesseskinner A @sveltejs co...

The Junior DeveloperA junior developer who said I was the smartest person in the company and frequently asked for my help once told me if someone can't transverse a binary tree and write a bubbl...

IntroductionAs a developer, there is a constant need to be updated to the latest technology and sharpening your skills to become a better developer. Through skill stacking, it could help you to ...

IntroductionVisual Studio Code lets you access almost every feature it provides by a command that is accessible via the command palette or via a shortcut on your keyboard.You are probably workin...

Did you know you can write functions in C and then call them directly from Python? Isn't that cool? Let's skip all the background and the "why would I ever need to do this" for now and just dive on in...

IntroductionIn this tutorial, you will learn how to populate a PDF document with Java using the PDFBox library. In addition you will see how to create your own forms or add editable fields to an...

If you are using Rails, chances are you are using Redis for something whether it is as a cache, ActionCable, or ActiveJob. So why not use it for one more thing?Starting in v4 of Redis, Redis Modules w...

Writing clean code can be a challenge when you start on a new project. Trying to clean up code in an already existing application without breaking anything is similar to this: ...

Before I jump into the nitty gritty of how to add a domain registered with Google Domains to a GitLab Pages site, I want to share a little backstory. If you're not interested in reading the human side...

Im excited to introduce you to HTTP requests and provide you with tools and resources to get up and running.Learning how to work with APIs is a great way to level up as a front end developer. Its also...

Becoming a programmer can be a daunting task. After reading Your First Year in Code, you might wonder what awaits you long term. My book, What is Programming covers more of the skills youll need, but ...

Here are 5 great reads we're bringing to you this week!This simple guide will help you understand why JAMstack exists and how to get started.More than just a modern web development architecture ...

The thoughtful onboarding process at Cockroach Labs is the best I have ever experienced. I am thrilled that the PeopleOps team decided to open-source the process and now I can share the process with e...

Jobs aren't all frustration and misery. What does you job do for you that makes you happy to stay where you are? The benefits, a great perk, your coworkers, the projects?...

GraphQL is this technology created by Facebook that enables the frontend to negotiate with the backend for what data it wants. It also enables the builder of the API to stitch together data from diffe...

First, I want to give a huge thank you to both the DEV team and the DEV community -- you all have changed my life over the past few years, and I'm so grateful for that. I've made great friends and rec...

Note: This piece was originally published to pika.dev.The year is 1941. Your name is Richard Hubbell. You work at an experimental New York television studioowned by CBS. You are about to give one of t...

This month, we return all three of our wonderful Gold sponsors. Thank you to each of these companies for being a valuable DEV Community partner and supporter.Please take a few minutes to explore thei...

My colleague had that look in his eyes. One Ive seen in my own eyes many times before.(Originally published on CodingMindfully.com)It had been a long day with a tricky bug, in an important part of the...

Over the last 4 months, I've built and scrapped 3 versions of my personal website. It was missing a lot of stuff and I wasn't able to figure out exactly what without guidance. After reading several bo...

What is Codetalks?As programmers, we know how important it is to be up to date in terms of programming languages, frameworks, methodologies and tools in general. We must always be in continuous...

I'm not sure how to start about this, so let's go with the beginning.I've been in the webdev industry for just a few years and am the CTO of a small french e-health company that provides programs for ...

Hey Folks! Have you been an employee for a number of years watching IT contractors come and go?Or perhaps wondered about how to get started and the basics around what a contractor is all about? After...

What Is Meetup?Meetup is self-described as Meetup is a platform for finding and building local communities. Its a website where you can look for groups in your area that are full of people that ...

In this post, basically, I don't put options. If you think this command is lacking something important, you will need to check Docker Doc(https://docs.docker.com/) pullpull command is almost sa...

Steve Krug is basically the godfather of usability testing and user research. When I started taking over user research for my team, our UX Designer suggested reading his book Rocket Surgery Made Easy,...

It's easy to pay lip service to company culture. But few companies actively consider those few cultural characteristics that make a meaningful difference to performance---because that's the hard part....

Today's episode of Byte Sized is about Leonhard Euler and the creation of Graph Theory.For more about how Graph Theory works, check out this video from BaseCS! 19:37 ...

The first sentence, first paragraph are the most important. Don't bury the lede!The next most important thing is the last paragraph, last sentence.Keep middle points well defined, ideally with descrip...

Writing a CFP proposal to speak at a tech conference can be intimidating. I want everyone who wants to speak at a conference to have that opportunity. Sometimes, though, a little help and advice can h...

Disclosure: Heroku is a DEV sponsor, but this post itself was not "sponsored" per se.I chose to write this post because I wanted to provide some thought around how we think about these things at DEV. ...

1.I built my first website when I was 14? It was a fansite for the Sims. It used tables and the colours wouldn't pass any accessibility (or aesthetics, for that matter) checklist. If I remember ...

Have you ever been on a team and you need to start a project from scratch? That's usually the case in many start-ups and other small companies. There are so many different programming languages, archi...

So I've gone ahead and made some dev.to loading gifs based on the logo. Which one's your favourite? This large gif is a bit choppy - see the actual gifs further below ;)Whenever I start a side product...

Admit this, everyone has a breaking point at work. No matter how much you love your job or enjoy working with your teammates, there will be times that exhaustion and stress prevail then a sense of def...

If you're at a company that's quite open about how the business gets run (a lot of well-run smaller companies are), you might notice something particularly strange: you're often not included in the ma...

Mohammadjavad joins @room_js, @iam_timsmith, @fullstack_to, @espoir, @helenanders26, @philnash, @florinpop17 and @lauragift21 in the club as the fourth winner of this badge. .ltag__user__id__1429...

In this post, we are going to walk through building Ian Davis's jetson-containers project on Windows 10 using Visual Studio Code and version 2 of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. In a nutshell, the je...

Originally from yourdevcareer.comHave you seen tech articles that talk about how certain software development fields pay more than others? Certain fields like machine learning generally pay more than ...

In 2014, I was a mess.I was commuting two hours to work each day and I let myself go well beyond being burned out.Why? Because it was comfortable, and it was all I knew. I was doing what I was suppose...

Reading Material Yet Another Static-vs-Dynamic ShindigThis week I came across a fantastic article by Eric Normand on the whole "static vs dynamic" debate, written by someone with the unique...

Debugging is one of the hardest things you have to do as a dev. It pushes you to understand your creations at a whole new level. Your friendly Ruby debugging tools like pry and byebug are wonderful wh...

A couple of months ago, I started experimenting with the Twitter API. My idea was to build a bot to share some digital art I created on my redbubble account by publishing a tweet once or twice a day w...

In my last blog post, I talked about why Im taking a deep dive into web fundamentals. Through both academic and professional experience, I found it very easy to succumb to the pitfalls of following tu...