Articles by Dev To from November 2019

Last year I wrote React From Zero and today it's on sale again!My Publisher \newline has a big Black Friday sale!Up to 50% off individual books book bundles and the whole 12-book libraryLearn React, ...

In this video, I discuss how Microsoft Azure, PluralSight, and Dev.to do an excellent job at using blogging on dev.to as a Developer Relations strategy:Transcript:Hi! Welcome back to my channel.In tod...

Twitter bots have gained traction lately as a way to integrate self-care reminders into your feed. Not only that, but you can also enable notifications and receive a friendly nudge each time they post...

Photo by Jacalyn Beales on UnsplashWell, it looks like the web browser ecosystem is getting another browser. Nick Taylor @nickytonline ...

Originally published on my blogIn programming the term "literal" refers to notations for representing certain values in code. Almost all languages offer them for atomic types such as strings or variou...

I'm feeling very grateful for the warmth, helpfulness and kindness displayed every day by the community.It's a lot of fun coming to work every day. ...

Github is not only a place for storing our code and sharing libraries with other developers. Thanks to powerful Markdown syntax its possible to create sort of wiki pages. There are thousands of ...

I've started #100DaysOfCode on October 23rd and have been getting more shit done ever since (speaking in terms of personal projects and learning stuff). I haven't been able to commit to it on a day t...

If you read the internet, you'll soon realise that a large number of software developers don't understand what CI is and why it's important.It's important to state that continuous integration is not a...

Hi dev.to, in my first article I want to give you a brief summary of 5 tools I recently tried out. If you like this, I will probably release articles of this kind on a monthly basis. If you are keen o...

Its been a long time since we talked about something philosophical. So I thought I'd write a new post for you all, this time going back to basics. There's something I've been thinking about a lot late...

If you have written CSS for a while, you'd probably encountered overflow property. It governs the display of overflow content in a container. Let's have an example. I have a div that is 300px width an...

This weekend, I wanted to make something creative so I made an Emoji Maker using React, ReactDOM, and SVG. I built it with Gatsby too, which allowed me to make a Progressive Web App in no time .Contra...

If you decide to go the coding bootcamp route, chances are you are going to have a few months of absolute madness. You are trying to change careers and pick up a mass of technical knowledge in a conde...

Each engineer knowledge is endlessly valuable, and I'm searching for a way to make all those hours spent on problems profitable by disseminating them amongs a growing team of ~15 software engineers.We...

How do you begin learning Kubernetes? This is an important question for any organization building, hosting, or managing applications today. For DigitalOcean, which released its managed Kubernetes prod...

This time I want to learn to design illustrations, I love them.What are you thinking about learning next?...

Hey everyone! Welcome back to Code Review, a series of interview challenges released weekly that are completely free for the community. This week well be working on a common, relatively straightforwar...

How has your experience been so far?...

Check out my blog for more articles or Github for my free-to-read JavaScript Ebook that covers all the new features from ES6 to 2019My girlfriend runs a Vietnamese language blog (which you should defi...

As a Career Changer, like many others, I went through a coding bootcamp, where they taught me the very basics of building a web app. Since there is a limit to how much you can teach someone over the c...

This was originally released on the Mirror Blog. Visit theworkmirror.com for more resources on how to make time for what matters and stay healthy and productive at work.Let's get one thing straight: I...

As a frontend developer, I'm working a lot with CSS.From time to time, I'm experimenting with CSS just for fun.Recently I've found an article about 3D transforms in CSS, which gave me ideas for new ex...

Automatically creating a screenshot of a webpage used to be hard. Using puppeteer it became quite simple. Puppeteer is a headless Chrome Node.js API. So you can programmatically do everything you can ...

Automatically creating a screenshot of a webpage used to be hard. Using puppeteer it became quite simple. Puppeteer is a headless Chrome Node.js API. So you can programmatically do everything you can ...

I was hearing about Svelte a lot and after listening to this talk I wanted to give it a try too. So I did and it turns out that Svelte is super amazing. I am used to programming with React a lot and s...

Hi everyone! I'm doing my first AMA to get people thinking about the state of the web.My day job for the past ~2 years has been web developer relations at Google. Prior to that I worked on web perform...

Who are some people whose posts on DEV you particularly enjoy?Here are a few of mine:Emma Wedekind she writes about a variety of topics, with her latest post being about speaking at conferences. She'...

Though it's now ten years old, Golang (Google's Go language) is one of the fastest growing languages out there right now. Do you want to learn it? Here are 10 great places to start. 1. Basics of ...

Don't you just love the joy of opening a new MacBook box and setting up your favorite tools? The tools you choose to install really add to the experience. They can be very personal and show a lot abou...

Original Post Caching: From Top To Bottom appeared first on CodersCat.Every programmer will encounter this computing concept: Caching.It is a core and broad concept that every programmer should have a...

By the end of this post, we will have created an API using Node, express and body-parser. Our API will have two endpoints: /magic-8-ball will return a random Magic 8-Ball response, and /to-zalgo will ...

before I start making it known to you guys my aim for today blog post I would love to share with you guys 2 or more reasons why you should tell a developer about dev.to today.Dev.to SEO strength: I ca...

While perusing how other Kubernetes developers are implementing their own reconciliation loop, I came across an interesting piece of code.The author decided to use the if-else control flow at its maxi...

IntroductionWe all want to be as effective as possible that's why we are developing things which boost our (and others) productivity, but we are also using tools from other developers, who made ...

I've being using the classic robbyrussell with Oh My ZSH for quite some time now, and I'm looking for ideas about what to used next.So, what is your favorite ZSH theme?...

"Those who dont want to supply what life demands suffer the consequences. If you dont want to change, you are left in the back. If you dont want to change, you are kicked out of the technological age....

Hey everyone!I am in the process of trying to hook up a status page for DEV so you all can stay up to date on any incidents DEV may have. Of course, ideally, there won't be any since I am here now but...

This post was originally published in Torah && Tech, the weekly newsletter I publish together with my good friend Ben Greenberg. To get the weekly issue delivered straight to your inbox click ...

My latest project used Rails and Postgres. After fighting my Mac and the Postgres install for an hour, I gave up and used Docker instead.Docker has always seemed kinda mystical to me and I really want...

I'm trying to setup a serious CLI-based development environment for work, because I'm about to move around and use different computers.The intent is to setup this environment on a VPS so I can just ss...

Nearly every modern application needs to manage user identity and authentication. Thats why its a bit shocking that even in 2019, integrating identity and authentication is still such a painful experi...

So youve heard of hackathons, maybe you even have friends who have gone, and youre curious but havent taken the plunge yet why not? I urge you to go as soon as you can, because if youre interested in...

Before I go too far down a rabbit hole I was hoping maybe someone here could help or point me in the right direction.I'm building a kiosk for a client based off a previous kiosk made by another dev. ...

Alfred is such a great tool if you use a Mac. Wes Bos @wesbos Love the Alfred kill process workfl...

This is a quick a follow up to an article I wrote a few months ago Could your recruitment process be discouraging female developers? and what I'm doing to try to make a change in the industry.I'm curr...

When you learn about the Phoenix framework you will come across contexts. While contexts are great, they are not always needed. Your app might only have a couple of schemas or, like in our case, it's ...

Hi,I find myself struggling with build tools more than I would care for.This usually happens with projects that are a year old or older.Modules break or become deprecated, causing the whole project to...

The concept of color has been studied by many prominent scientists, including Aristotle and Isaac Newton, for over two millennia. Aristotle developed what we believe to be the first known theory of co...

Adaptive Loading: Do not just respond based on screen size, adapt based on actual device hardware.Any user can have a slow experience. In a world with widely varying device capabilities, a "one-size" ...

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...

Dear dev.to,I'm Iranian. I'm studying abroad and no longer live in Iran, but I have friends and families in Iran who are dear to me, and whom I love with all my heart.Iran has a tendency to disconnect...

You are not your code. You are not your configs, your documentation, your blog posts, your conference talks, or your job.You. Are. Not. Your. Work.I say this as someone who spent many years of my life...

I recently started a new podcast / interview site to talk to other developers about how they've built and run their web apps in production. The goal here is to be able to see how others are building a...

In this article I will show a quick and easy way to create a Pinterest style layout grid to showcase images. This grid will be responsive meaning that it will automatically resize as the browser windo...

DROdio (CEO at Armory) and Kate MacAleavey (Head of Culture and Leadership Development at Armory) recently had a fascinating discussion on YouTube with Joseph Jacks (founder of OSS Capital) about "ope...

Hello! Like the title says, I am the co-founder of CodePen (I have two fellow co-founders: Tim and Alex), I am the (owner? creator? CEO? lol it's just a blog ok) of CSS-Tricks, and co-host of ShopTalk...

Today, we are releasing the first version of COSS Glossary, a set of definitions of commonly used terms in the open source technology world. The motivation behind this document is to remove the confus...

Preamble:JavaScript, CSS and HTML have remained the bread and butter of the web since their inception even with the many advances in technology for web and web applications.In this tutorial, we will b...

Today I learnt about the :placeholder-shown pseudo-selector. Nick Taylor @nickytonline TIL. Definitely would have bee...

The Make with Ada contest is offering $8,000+ in prizes for "cool embedded applications programmed in the Ada and SPARK programming languages."I've always wanted to build a robot and I've been looking...

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...

There are many alternatives, sometimes is not a free choice (work, consolidated projects, etc). But what do you prefer to use and how do you choose it?Personal and work examples are welcome....

The code for this tutorial is available on GitHub.I use Londons TfL Metropolitan line on a daily basis to commute to and from work. Being aware of disruptions as they occur helps me save time on a dai...

This year I had a goal to finally complete Hacktoberfest, which is an online hackathon where you contribute to open source projects.In the beginning of October, I reached out to my various discord cod...

I recently commented on What are you learning?, but I quickly realized (after the first five characters) that my comment is more about the how than the what. At times, to learn certain topics can feel...

I put "edge compute" in quotations because I think it's a flexible definition, but it's a fascinating area of software development.We've been early in this game with DEV in a way, since we use logic a...

Whether you enjoy CSS animations or not, learning how to work with CSS transforms and transitions can help the overall user experience on your websites.Let's look at how to get started. Transform...

This past week we started a big database migration for DEV. We setup a new Redis instance and with the help of A LOT of awesome contributors we began moving all of our existing cache keys to it. I am ...

Apple announced the new 16-inch Macbook Pro.Per usual, their main landing page goes over the key features. The major highlights:16-inch Retina displayUp to 8-core processorUp to 8TB SSD storageUp to ...

I am in a situation where I feel very bad, excluded and sad.I work in a small team on projects for clients. The team consists of three frontend developers, a designer, and our project manager. My role...

My dev team recently had an internal conversation that went like this: Coworker1: what is everyones appetite to exploring typescript as a standard on new stuff we do/create in the frontend?Me: YASSSSS...

Follow me on Twitter, happy to take your suggestions on topics or improvements /ChrisWhen we run synchronous code we block the main Thread from doing anything else than just what's it's doing currentl...

Follow me on Twitter, happy to take your suggestions on topics or improvements /ChrisWhen we run synchronous code we block the main Thread from doing anything else than just what's it's doing currentl...

Recently, I wrote about my success building a career on relationships and networking, and about my definition of networking: finding ways to help others.Sometimes because I spend a lot of time trying ...

TL;DRThe browser enforces the Same-origin policy to avoid getting responses from websites that do not share the same origin.The Same-origin policy does not prevent requests being made to other o...

How would you explain the concept of open-source to a five year old?...

Hello, everyone!Let me introduce a list of the best open-source findings for October 2019.If you want to have more awesomeness, including new and useful open-source tools, great articles, and excellen...

I finally get to share with everyone what I've been working on for so long! It's called the Web Almanac and it's a free, open source, community-made "state of the web" report. What's the Web Alma...

When it comes to simple solutions to sprucing up an FAQ page- chatbots are one of my favorite solutions. Whether you run a small business and are a one-person customer support team, you find your cust...

"etcd is a strongly consistent, distributed key-value store that provides a reliable way to store data that needs to be accessed by a distributed system or cluster of machines. It gracefully handles l...

How to use NeoVim as your Ocaml IDEI've always been interested in learning an ML language. But Haskell, the poster child of functional programming, has a high learning curve.OCaml and ReasonML (an alt...

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This is the first part of a series of articles where I'll share tips to write cleaner and more effective node.js code. 1. Use async/awaitSo there are 3 ways of writing asynchronous code in Javas...

We often make HTTP requests to an API endpoint or server to get data, for instance, user data, using various methods. This is a common task in web development, and in this video, I will be showing you...

"In the Information Age, intellectual property can be the most important asset in a business." Mary Stewart (Launching the Imagination, 110).Who is and isn't creative? I think everyone is, to some deg...

"In the Information Age, intellectual property can be the most important asset in a business." Mary Stewart (Launching the Imagination, 110).Who is and isn't creative? I think everyone is, to some deg...

Hello in Brex worldA JavaScript library for building user interfaces with easy syntax system and esay controll each widget in each component and Design simple views for each state in your applic...

What is event bubbling vs capturing? Please explain to me like I'm a kid who doesn't know any strong technical jargons! Thanks!...

Streamed: 11/05 on Twitch Watch Twitch VOD (replay)The first goal of the night was getting a random soundbite to play during streams when certain trigger words are said. Example: Someone in ch...

Streamed: 11/05 on Twitch Watch Twitch VOD (replay)The first goal of the night was getting a random soundbite to play during streams when certain trigger words are said. Example: Someone in ch...

Few days ago I celebrated my first 500 followers on Dev.To.Actually, YOU are first 500 followers in my life, and I am glad that it happend on Dev.To. It is a friendly and intelligent environment of n...

This is part of a series of articles starting with Working with CSS in Vue.js. Focus in this article is on different ways of adding CSS to a Vue.js project. Separate Global Style FilesIf you pref...

The number one step you can take to legitimize yourself as a web developer is to build web sites and web applications. That said, the easiest way you can make yourself look more legit is to register a...

This guide was originally posted on malikbrowne.com. Recently, one of my coworkers was having trouble because Jest wasn't running tests on a new folder he had created. After some investigation, it tur...

AWS re:Invent 2019 is a only few weeks away and promises to be a huge event with more sessions on Databases and Analytics than ever before.Since there is so much on offer I've put together the session...

Disclaimer: it was brought to my attention that in my desire to strike a very click-bait-like pose in reference to a wide field of "considered harmful" articles, that it might too directly call to min...

The JAMstack architecture for building web apps has a ton of benefits from better speed, to better security, to better flexibility. And, let's be honest, the development experience overall is generall...

When Timur Meyster, of Career Karma, asked to host an Ask-Me-Anything with their squads, it was a most humbling moment; this meant the opportunity to encourage and embolden those who sought to transit...

We all know that bootcamps don't spend a ton of time teaching computer science topics/principles and focus more on the skill of coding and learning how to learn. Those who are self-taught may or may n...

So I started learning Rust a while ago and since my post about what I thought of Go was popular, I decided to write about what my first impressions of Rust were as well. But unlike Go, I actually didn...

So, last year I wrote a Text Adventure game engine using Node.js, capable of taking several players on the same adventure through a text-based client and some basic chat features.I had a lot of fun wo...

I got a free ticket for GitHub Universe 2019, but I am not in San Francisco.So if you want to go to this Conference, send a message to me. I will send it to you.Wish you can study more knowledge.Pleas...

I'm trying to steer myself into a season of reading (film is my favorite medium right now), so I grabbed a copy of Sapiens per Bill Gates's recommendation. The chapter I'm on just described how we mov...

This was originally posted on: https://chrisachard.com/how-to-find-consulting-clientsIf you're considering a move into freelancing or consulting - the one question that's probably on your mind is: "Ho...

I remember that when I was a novice developer, my colleagues always told me that I had to write code without having to use Tools, Add-ons, IDE, DLL, etc. to get guides, good practices or maybe not red...

I don't need to tell you: the technical industry is incredibly competitive! Whether you're trying to get a job, win a contract, build your client base, or simply get your voice heard, it can be diffic...

Positioning, what can I say?Every time I think that I got it, I get confused some more. This time, I went through another A List Apart article and it clarified some things.Positioning relates to the p...

Warning: I wanted to write about being a mom in tech but I didnt really know exactly how I wanted to approach it so I thought Id just start writing and see what happened. This is what happened. Its a ...

Scripts are awesome isn't it? Remember how we generate applications few years before, with scripts. Bootstrapping an application is a mundane task. With changing technologies everyday, spending a lot ...

Follow Loopsy Dazy on SpotifyLoopsy Dazy is a live-looping acoustic-electronic project led by Mikey Dorje on acoustic guitar, synth, beats and effects, with frequent accompaniment by Eleanor Edg...

I've been reading Deep Work by Cal Newport lately and the idea of "deep work" really speaks to me. Deep work is described as the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task f...

As part of our ongoing commitment to community safety, we've rolled out the ability to block other community members. This is a tool designed to be used as a complement alongside the efforts of our co...

I've always wanted to make my own games. I tried several times with off the shelf engines, but I always felt like I wasn't learning the real way to do it.Not only did I not quite get the proper "game ...

I didn't know what I wanted to do for a career when I was 18, and I feel okay about that. I also shouldn't have been trusted to pick a romantic life partner at that age (sorry Steve from the pirate-th...

This month, we return DigitalOcean and CloudBees, and welcome back Triplebyte as a Gold Sponsor. Thank you to each of these companies for being a valuable DEV Community partner and supporter.Please ta...

Does anyone have recommended text classification tools (APIs, services, etc) for fighting spam here on DEV? We have spam measurements in place but wed like to mature our toolbelt with text classificat...

Recently, I had to recover from my own bout of burnout because I was trying to do too much. What started as me trying to learn a couple of new technologies turned into me travelling around and speakin...

So, heres how Postwoman happened.You know the drill. Youre developing an app for a client and you need to test every APIs and every APIs response in every method, on every requests.Our team was alread...

isn't that what a CDN is for? ...

DEV (dev.to) has been growing a lot lately. We're now reaching around 5.5 million monthly unique visitors, up from about 1.5 million this time last year. Our open-source code has 11.2k GitHub stars, a...

First, I want to explain you why this topic is important:Imagine, you have developed an application for automated presentations generation. You used, Aspose.Slides API, for the known reasons, with al...

I've been conducting coding interviews for some time and I will like to help you answer questions you might have about it.I am not a recruiter, I do the so-called "technical interview" so lets share a...

Teams who work on GitHub rely on event data to collaborate. The data recorded as issues, pull requests, and comments, become vital to understanding the project.With the general availability of GitHub ...

Wrap your keyboard command text with <kbd>. Great to use especially in documentations! It's more semantically correct & allows you to target it to apply some nice styling. You can also use t...

Dev.to has a pretty awesome community for sharing coding knowledge. I wanted to republish my posts to them (and also link to the comments) so I made this library, and in the interest of sharing decide...

Creating a wave shape logo using the SVG textOnAPath.I was developing my portfolio website and I wanted a logo. Being a non designer it was difficult to come up with something in shorter period of tim...

Recently at work I had to move our dev, staging and production web servers from Apache2 to Nginx. The reason for this move is that in the rest of the company we are using Nginx for all the backend ser...

A sort of follow-up to this post .... a few more form animations.Not totally happy with the execution in some cases (eg: Why does Firefox require that I use a setTimeout for the transition in example ...

There was a recent blog post with the status of Aurelia vNext. For those of you that don't know, Aurelia is a front-end framework with a focus on standards, extensibility, ease of use and performance....

Hi guys! I have a problem.https://pastebin.com/LxDbhGP3In this code there are two clickable paragraph: "7" and "8".And by jquery, when I click one of them, the background of the button change, and aft...

Hey everyone!!! One of my first projects as DEV's newly minted SRE is to move all of our existing cache keys to Redis and I would love your help! Click on the Issue linked below to learn more!There ar...

Another great Hacktoberfest is concluded.This was the first time the event had us, DEV, as co-presenters. It was great to work with DigitalOcean to make the event as inclusive and community-oriented a...

The future of work is remote. In recent years, fully-remote companies like GitLab, Zapier, and InVision have proven that a remote culture is not just a perk, but a clear business advantage. Technology...

On tech jobsThere has never been a better time to join the tech industry. These days we have all kinds of resources for self-teaching (like I did), connecting with other technologists (DEV), and...

This article shows how to deploy a Python application to the Heroku Platform from a Raspberry Pi 3 running Raspbian.The process detailed in this article was confirmed on Raspberry Pi 3 B 1.2 running 0...

DEV strives towards being open, collaborative, and a positive force in the larger ecosystem.In addition to the platform's code being open source, we also provide an API.Anyone can generate an API key ...

A brief introductionUnless you live under a rock (not sure that would be comfortable ), you've heard of hooks and how they have exploded in popularity with the community.It's easy to get caught ...

Hello Hackers! Today we are bringing you our new educational series: TEACH ME ANYTHING, aiming to give you the tips and tricks you need in under 10 minutes or less! Glen Keane is a full-stack develope...

Your checklist of items that need to be in place before you launch a web site grows every day. Accessibility seems scary because, if you have any exposure to it, you know it gets tacked onto that list...

I can say with full honesty that I never dread going to the office because I absolutely love what I do and I'm surrounded by amazing, kind and talented engineers. The majority of my friends and acquai...

Hello all!I'm seeking both a Developer and a Designer. The Designer will create the landingPage design, a Logo and an Avatar for my organization.Please respond to my listing if interested. Thanks so m...

Years ago, I lead the web development of a new platform for selling life insurance online (which provided white-label abilities).This was one of my biggest professional accomplishments given the many ...

It was a sunny, hot morning in July when I opened Outlook and took a look at the messages scrolling slowly past. Meeting, meeting, meeting, ... and a request! My colleague, Chris Noring, had cc'ed me ...

The winner gets a spooky Dad joke! ...

This post was originally posted on the Super Good website here.Last week, the Solidus community gathered in Salt Lake City to discuss the future of the platform and ecosystem. Over the course of four ...

As an experiment to see how static typing could help improve our teams Ruby experience, we introduced Sorbet into a greenfield codebase with a team of 4 developers. Our theory was that adding static t...

Halloween is weird.But, if I would be someone/something on Halloween - I would be YOUR FALLEN DOWN PRODUCTION!!!Whom would you be on Developers Halloween?...

Hi everybody! Welcome to another exciting post about CSS. First of all, check out the live demo: https://zombie-css.netlify.com/In this video, I recorded the process from 0 to zombie. Made with vue.j...

It happened to me in a distant past - my PC was stolen.And the worst thing - I had all my life data there and had no backup.All of my data, starting from my cat`s childhood photos and ending important...

Just when you were getting comfy with tools you love, something pops up, challenging everything you know.Take frontend frameworks, for instance.Were 100% behind the paradigms React, Vue and others bro...

Am I today?Not every day, I wake up with happy feelings..excited for the day (I wish though!!!) Some days, I go to bed again if I don't feel good after waking up For me, I come first. My menta...