Articles by Dev To from October 2020

In this post, I want to demonstrate how to add a simple and flexible filtering solution to a website. The use case here is that I have a collection of artifacts - in my case portfolio projects, but h...

Custom Ink has been using Rails for as long as the framework has been around. For many of those years we have used New Relic's awesome Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tool to observe and debu...

This week, the Forem team wrapped up our Hacktoberfest streams on Twitch! Here is a recap of what we discussed... Monday Oct 26th: Gratitude Stream.Nick Taylor and I gave shoutouts to the DEV com...

In JavaScript, arrow functions provide a concise syntax for anonymous functions (known as closures) stripped off of their OOP context baggage. They can be considered a syntactic sugar on a subset of c...

Days ago, I decided that my personal website needed updating, as some things weren't working anymore. The old version was written in plain HTML and CSS (as I am a front-end newbie), and I wanted to tr...

IntroductionAbout 3 months ago I wrote this article: 10 Useful Vanilla Javascript Plugins 2020In this article, I will add another 10 vanilla js plugins that will make your life easier. 1. G...

I set up my camera and streaming rig yesterday to film some easy Javascript coding. I ended up making incredibly loud static for reasons I couldn't figure out.The reality is that when you're trying to...

Cheers to the weekend!Looking back on your week what was something you're proud of?All wins count big or small Examples of 'wins' include:Completing Hacktoberfest!Starting a new projectFixing a tric...

I spent 48 hours with Nova, a new native IDE for MacOS released by Panic on September 14th. Two days ago I downloaded the free trial of Nova, installed the TypeScript extension, snagged a theme, opene...

After working with serverless technology for many years now, I encountered a bunch of recurring myths about it. Misconceptions that come from a false assumption about serverless technology.In this art...

Since last year, Ive been working with many software development teams and building great products. At some point, I realized that if I wanted to stay relevant and influence the products development a...

It's Halloween eve now and here's my pure HTML&CSS card on GitHub profile README.md How to insert full HTML to markdown?use foreignObject in SVG<svg fill="none" viewBox="0 0 400 400" width...

It's that time of the week again. So wonderful devs, what did you learn this week? It could be programming tips, career advice etc.Feel free to comment with what you learnt and/or reference your TIL p...

IntroductionWhen I started learning React, there was a huge debate on whether React is a library or a framework. While I assumed React to be a framework, since, it was always compared with the l...

Principles matter. For any group, of any size, principles bring clarity, they provide a sense of purpose and they offer direction when the road ahead is difficult or complex.This is certainly true at ...

I spend hours browsing through news & articles to find some quality content around remote work. Mostly, I end up knowing nothing new. If I am lucky, I stumble upon a great piece or a "breaking new...

There are multiple ways to define a function in Javascript. Since there are only subtle differences between each, it can be confusing at times for someone making baby steps in JS. So in this post, I w...

Here's a neat little trick:You can use the :focus-within selector to style the parent of a focused element.That allows you to create some interactive form UI without a single line of JavaScript. Try t...

1.Python extension for Visual Studio Codeby MicrosoftFirst and foremost - the Python plugin for VS Code. Out of the box, there is no support for Python in the VS Code, but when you open a Python...

Before we get into the topic of this article, I want to tell a little story. I started learning more about cloud engineering and AWS a few months ago. I had finally wrapped my head around what cloud a...

Understanding The RelationsWith the help of hooman, youve fixed your dataset and you both are planning to jump into some real action. You look at the data and find out there are lots of rows and...

One of the most important decisions in web development is to choose the right tool for the right job. I have been using the ReactJS library for a while and I will give you some reasons to pull it out ...

You've heard about a new library and you've decided you want to look into it. Perhaps you need to make a decision on the technology you haven't had a chance to use yet. You've read some articles, seen...

This is the last week of Hacktoberfest and I'd love to try something new and accomplish milestones. At first, I cloned a Dockerized python repo and tried to learn Docker and python in one day to solve...

Season two of the DevNews podcast is finally here! S2:E1 - Hacktoberfest, Node v15, Edge, McBroken, and Tech-Related Issues on U.S. Ballots DevNews ...

Dogs are excellent, and great people. When I came across the Dog.ceo API of free dog images sorted by breed the other day, I had to do something with it. So I did. I give you the dog browser:You use i...

Originally published in the late 1990s, The Power of Now was written after its author, Eckhart Tolle, had an epiphany at age 29 and became enlightened. The book achieved huge success once it was recom...

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.WARNING: VERY hot take from @jf...

Type | Treat Challenge 4Welcome to the fourth Type | Treat challenge! Today we will be stopping hauntings and putting puppies in their place. Yesterday's Solution Beginner/Learner Cha...

Skyler Hartle is on the Azure Functions team and focuses on APIs, growth hacking, and other neat things.*record scratch**freeze frame*Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering how a former JavaScript ...

Yesterday I published A First Look at Remix.run A First Look at Remix.run Nader Dabit Oct 28 9 min read #webdev #javascript #react ...

In May, I gave a talk in Futurice Tech Weeklies about my journey learning GraphQL. In this blog post, I will share the key points from the talk, and if you prefer watching/listening to the talk, you c...

Sometimes we find that we need to traverse an object and perform some operation on it at some arbitrary depth. While this seems like a tough challenge, we can make use of recursion, mutability, and ob...

Do you want to read some scary stuff? Not those campfire stories about ghosts and hexes, they are for children. Something really scary.Now that Halloween is just around the corner, we decided to learn...

Let's share some of the worst-case scenarios and nightmare-inducing horrors in the work of the devs. My #1 nightmare is cleaning up lengthy, real complex, unreadable, critically ridden code with bugs ...

A bundler is a tool that recursively follows all imports from the entry point of your app and bundles them up into a single file.Bundlers can also minify your files by removing unnecessary white space...

APIs that use OAuth provides the best experience for their users. But from a developer's perspective, well... it's a real nightmare. It doesn't have to be like that. That's why a few months ago, we op...

Intro As a new developer with no computing background, it's possible to jump into coding without really knowing anything else about computers, besides being a typical user of them. But it can be...

IntroductionThis is the continuation of the multi-part series. If you missed the previous parts, then you can check them out here : part1, part 2 and part 3.In this final part, we will build a ...

I wanted to do a performance comparison between Facil(a web framework for C) against some more conventional tools, such as Flask(Gunicorn server) and Nodejs. Let's dive in!How the benchmarking was don...

Comparing build-time integration, server-side integration, run-time integration via iframes, and run-time integration via script.The desire to modularize the frontend has steadily increased in the las...

When a script is loaded, it loads in blocking or synchronous mode, which means that the browser waits for the script to finish loading before executing any code after it.So in this case, script2.js ca...

Today the Remix Run Supporter Preview finally launched. Remix is a new React framework.One of the thing that excites me the most about Remix is the team behind it. Michael Jackson and Ryan Florence ar...

In case you missed it, Rich Harris gave a presentation at Svelte Summit 2020, where he announced that Sapper v1 will never be released! Instead, he showed what's coming next in Svelte itself.Be aware ...

When looking for a first job as a Junior Front-end developer it's very hard to show your experience as a programmer. Your projects used as a playground for learning new skills will rarely also offer g...

Docker is a containerization tool used to speed up the development and deployment processes, It's the most popular solution for containerization.Containers allow us to run and develop an application i...

When it comes to solving problems in an interview setting as a software engineer, few topics come up quite as often as string manipulation. And when it comes to string manipulation, few specific conce...

The software industry is continuously growing, and many people are choosing to test their luck in this branch. However, like every other profession, being in software development doesnt come without d...

If you've ever worked in the software field, you've probably come across Linux or any other Unix-like operating systems. You might've wondered what it is? Well, in this first part of the UNIX Basics s...

Theres a common misconception that in order to run machine learning and other algorithms on data, you need to be working within a specific data science platform like TIBCO or Alteryx. While these plat...

Want to nest a grid in grid with the same definition of columns & gaps? Looking to make something like a sub-grid to do this but don't know how? No worries! Here are some possible solutions. ...

Did you know that you can easily parse an excel spreadsheet using Node.js? Keep reading to speed up your information retrieval processes. Why do I need this?I learned this a few months ago and ca...

The COVID-19 pandemic were all facing this year is transforming the workforce throughout the whole world. In fact, according to Stanford University research, the US has become a work-from-home economy...

Some years ago it seemed to me like JS template engines (Pug, Nunjucks & co.) were all the rage, but I haven't been hearing a lot about them lately?Recently I went on YouTube to look for some mate...

If you are reading this article, I assume you're learning React library for the time present. And as soon as you feel like React fundamentals are really started to make sense to you, that means you ne...

In this blog post I'm going to introduce several tipps and tricks to boost the performance of a React application.I learned a ton while improving the performance of a large and complex web application...

This post has been originally published on my blogOn 27th of October 2020 was the first global user conference of Next.js, I'm so excited about it as a React developer, That's why I've registered imme...

Exec summary:Technical debt leads to bugs creation: the number of bugs and the number of design flaws (technical debt) are 0.92 correlated in a study from theSoftware Engineering InstituteStatic analy...

Hello! My name's Alex and I built the react-coding-challenges collection on GitHub. Find them here.So what are the coding challenges? They are a series of small incomplete React apps you can use to te...

Table of ContentsInitial ConfigurationGenerate a New Rails APIGem Additionsrack-cors Gem ConfigurationFirst MigrationNew Graphql GeneratorSchema, TypesResourcesIn this blog, I'll be covering how...

As a designer turned developer, some tools are relevant to both and need to stay sharp in the toolbox. One of those tools I have found are the use of vector graphics. There are several types of vector...

My website has officially launched! It's a Single Page Application built using React.js. I had a blast developing it.It had long been a dream of mine to switch from my career in finance to software de...

In programmings world, we could say it is essential and very important to keep up with the new information of our sector, in this way you manage to place yourself in the lead and face the various chal...

Every Tuesday, 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 ...

Guess what?!I have been working on my online portfolio for the last couple of weeks and I am so excited to say that its ready for you to see! Take a look lynne.codesI have learned so much HTML, CSS, a...

As fascinating as they seem, they are far from reality, especially in near future. But do you think with fast internet and shifting the entire computation to cloud this can be achieved? The only hardw...

As developers, we put a lot of work into our GitHub repos to make them as useful as possible for others, but great projects sometimes go under-appreciated, and under-starred. Asking for stars is tacky...

On October 15th, DEV Community member Rachael Wright-Munn joined Christina and I on the pairing stream to work on improving the Twitch liquid tag.Aside from coding, there was singing, mispronunciation...

The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed how many organizations do business, including the recruiting and onboarding process. While most companies have had to put their international hiring plans...

TLDRCompleted code repo using "books" instead of "games" ForewordThis post is not just for 'quick immediate gratification.' Depending on your experience level, some of this code may be a bi...

Secrets are one of the sneakiest vulnerability issues you can have in a Docker image if you don't know how to handle them.If you need to clone a private repository or to download a private package you...

Hi! Im Levi Sharpe, Senior Podcast Producer and Sound Designer at Forem.Ill be joining Nick Taylor and Christina Gorton on Friday, October 30th at 1pm EDT on thePracticalDev Twitch stream to talk abou...

Below are a few ramblings from my Sinatra project build. It was such a great learning experience and I can't wait to show it to my friends. Read on... Solve your own problemAs a software engineer...

You just finished loads of tutorials on how to do this and how to do that using a new language... Nice!, you are already on track to becoming a world-class dev but it doesn't stop there, you have to p...

Recently I bought a personal domain and decided to build a quick landing page to not leave it empty while I work on my portfolio. I thought some of you might find it useful, so I decided to make a tut...

How to hide API keys in github repoIf you have going to push your local code on GitHub, so it is a best practice to hide your sensitive data like API KEY, follow this guide to remove the sensiti...

When I started redesigning my blog a few weeks ago, I decided to put an easter egg in it. The original idea was to build a hidden game like the T-Rex runner in Chrome. Pretty soon, it became clear th...

Have you ever asked yourself what is better to use Material UI or Bootstrap? It is a common question when you start working on a new project. Before we proceed to our list of top admin templates, let...

Practical machine learning. Part 0.PrerequisiteBasic knowledge about this is helpfulPythonNumPyPandasMatplotlibScikit-learn Part 1.Data PreprocessingData preprocessing is an important ...

Developing mobile apps is not easy, and it may take much time and effort. In order to be productive as a mobile app developer, here are some tools that you can use. They help you keep your team on tra...

Being a software developer these days is both good and bad. There are a lot of jobs available out there but there is a lot of competition too. If a company is known for looking after their developers ...

Gatsby(.js) is more powerful than a content management system (CMS). It can be used to create web applications with ease. Think of it as a more advanced WordPress with many more optimization features ...

The Beacon API is a relatively unknown, lightweight, and efficient way to log web page activities to a server. It is a JavaScript API that helps the developer to send a small amount of data such as, a...

Theres an exciting aspect to building a CLI application, or rather the CLI in general. For the average user like myself who hasnt a clue about the inner workings of a computer and has been confined to...

If you're participating in Hacktoberfest this month, don't forget that this is the final week to get those pull-requests in!It's been amazing to watch the community come together and expand this past ...

Follow me on Twitter @AnnaJMcDougallDelivering genuine, meaningful compliments is a skill fundamental to friendship, family, romantic relationships, and even your work life. The majority of people are...

Hello World Hooks are special types of functions in React that you can call inside React functional components. They let you store data, add interactivity, and perform some actions, otherwise kn...

This post aims to show how to start a simple project in React and Typescript, without using create-react-app or any other scaffolding tool.We will see how to install the minimum number of dependencies...

Test automation is generally introduced into a project to solve issues such as repetitive manual work, working with large data sets, or getting faster feedback in a CI/CD pipeline. With this buzz arou...

The story of JavaScript The web gets accessibleIn the 1990s, the first user-friendly, graphical web-browser ("Mosaic) was released by developer Marc Andreessen from the National Center for ...

The recent post about Sonys brand new horribly performing update to their Playstation Store kinda got me thinking, do people even care about the performance of what they produce these days?I realize t...

Not only is it Halloween week, but there are also a lot of strange things going on in the world around us, so I felt inspired to start a fun conversation about things that just really spook us out. Il...

Its the fifth week of Hacktoberfest and we are continuing to highlight the amazing people in our community who have contributed to Forem's codebase!Were thrilled to share that weve had 10 contributors...

I dont have hEDS. But I dont not have it, if you see what I mean. My ligaments have the approximate tensile strength of that one sketchy rubber band you find in the bottom of the junk drawer. When I w...

Last week I was assigned the task of configuring a project that uses Svelte, Tailwindcss, and Storybook. I had never worked with any of the tech, so I spent a good amount of time researching. What I'v...

What is Web Accessibility?Web accessibility is designing tools, web sites and applications used through the world wide web to be accessible by anyone regardless of their abilities and/or disabil...

One of our community members suggested using loading="lazy" for all images on DEV. Pros are pretty clear to me. But are there any cons of this? Any kind of gotchas or edge cases we should watch out fo...

After working on Small to Large Scale ERP Level Softwares, I felt it very essential to write a guide for all levels of developers to know what kind of database to use in the project they are going to ...

Hey all!I recently joined a new team and we do most of our work with Kotlin.It looks like a great language to work with, and I'm looking for resources to help me ramp up.Something for someone familiar...

I write code for a living. You might say I'm a professional software engineer, but really software engineering is much more than just a profession it's a lifestyle. The hoodies, the ping pong, the en...

So you're ready to start creating a portfolio but can't think of any ideas? Here's one AMAZING idea to demonstrate full stack skills and impress any potential employer! Getting started mkdir url...

Alright then, so you have decided your path. You want to become a web developer this year. Welcome to the vast ecosystem of the web! Great choice, but how will you become an awesome dev who loves taki...

Hello and welcome back to the backend master class.So far we have learned a lot about working with database in Go. Now its time to learn how to implement some RESTful HTTP APIs that will allow fronten...

Programming can be an arduous activity. You have to remember what you are doing. Remember the context and inner workings of an application or system. Remember the syntax and building blocks of the lan...

Developers often spend significant time manually managing a single dev environment on their local machine and waiting for builds and tests to complete before coding on a daily basis. My favorite tool ...

Import and export statements are two great features introduced ES6 (ES2015). These two statement allows you to export and import your code and use it whenever you need. This tutorial will show you wha...

Understanding The ProblemImagine youre a cat, who is obsessed with potato chips, and has no idea about what data science is. You have a hooman friend who has a lot of data but too lazy to do any...

Photo by Andre Hunter on UnsplashI've been very pleased by the reception of my two articles What's your current salary ? and What's your salary expectation ?. This gives me motivation to write more ab...

IntroductionThis is the continuation of the multi-part series. If you missed the previous parts, then you can check out here : part 1 and part 2In this part, we'll explore the various methods p...

Photo by Henry Dick on UnsplashData warehousing was introduced in 1988 byIBMresearchers Barry Devlin and Paul Murphy.Since then the concept has evolved and taken on a life of its own. Increasing chall...

Hey, Dev.to community!As a little project, I've written some famous sort algorithms using Go. I hope this would be useful for you! Table of contentsBubble SortInsertion SortSelection SortMerge So...

ThoughtsI'm considered a senior developer in my workspace. Lately, I've been thinking about what it means to be a "Senior Software Developer" I thought it might mean that I write better code, w...

What is React?In simple words, React is just a JavaScript library for building User Interface.React allows you to build a complex User Interface by composing small and simple components.React uses the...

This week I was looking at the chrome extensions that I have used so far and have been helpful in my journey. I love how some apps that I use also have chrome extensions with the same functionality. I...

Why so many performance issues are caused by the database?We often forget that each request is not independent of other requests. If one request is slow, it's unlikely to affect the others right?Datab...

If you've ever watched a tutorial about adding movement to your game, chances are you've come across delta time.The first thing we're taught is that it's necessary if we want to keep an object's speed...

This question hacs been asked by almost everyone you know in tech today. With the vast number of programming languages and frameworks available, making a choice is usually difficult.The most common an...

On my previous post I explained how to build your own Data Pipeline from scratch. I mentioned that in order to use my GitHub repository you will need to have Python 3 and pip installed. After building...

My thinking: if I'm going to build websites that are fast and reliable, I need to really understand the mechanics of each step a browser goes through to render a web page, so that each can be consider...

Since I've learned that web extensions speak the same languages as websites (HTML, CSS and JavaScript), I've always wanted to give it a try. This post is less a tutorial and more a summary of my exper...

Curiosity Self-love and belief in yourself ask for help and collab with other devskeep learning + improvingWhat do you want to add? Happy Sunday. ...

Youve just wrapped up your meeting, youre saying bye to your colleagues but then theres a second or two of awkwardness as you are fumbling to hang up the Zoom call.Using Keyboard Maestro on macOS you ...

Hello Everyone! I'm going to share my experience on creating a pull request in Github, Trust me that's easier than what we think.Let's get started, Prerequisites:Git should be installed.Basic kno...

Today I'd like to discuss something essential to algorithms that every coder should know. Big-O Notation. Going into my first technical interview I had no idea what it was but upon building a working ...

Recently I acquired an action cam called insta 360 one r that has the feature to take 360 photos.I thought it would be a good idea to make a resume that can be watched in 360 view, check it out.To cre...

Dynamic routing is the type of routing used by react-router. Unlike static routing, this takes place at the moment our application is rendering. This is because react-router makes use of components to...

So I have changed my desk a bit taking inspiration from all of you in the last post. Before AfterSo over to you fellas. Rock the comment section. Show off your current desk setup....

Hello Everyone,In this article we will see how to build a collabrative rich text editor.If you already know how the collabration works realtime feel free to skip the theory section. Theory:To bui...

Since my son was born, I've been doing a lot of laundry. An infant's laundry needs are small (well the clothes are) but frequent so to be efficient you might as well do the whole family's the laundry....

I made this trailer for my game Asterogue. Here's how I did it:Added some Javascript to go full screen using document.body.requestFullscreen() with a special key sequence.Used OBS Studio to record a c...

Follow me on TwitterHello Dev community Developers! I am coming back with GIT command lines. When you are working on a project whether on your own or with a team, GIT is a must you should acquire as a...

The descriptions above are a brief overview of the topic. Go through the recommended resources to get in-depth explanations of CSS Grid.IntroductionGrid is a framework of spaced bars that are parallel...

It seems trivial to record a 1-8 minute screencast, but there are actually quite a few moving parts when it comes to recording a high quality screencast. Here's some of our thoughts on the subject.If ...

This is the second installment in my article series, Unity for Software Engineers. Check out the first article about six fundamental concepts in Unity. I'll be releasing additional installments over t...

IntroductionWe have a lot of state managers in our Javascript-World and use them every day, but now it's a time to understand "How they work".There's a very nice state manager Effector.js which ...

Earlier this year, I started contributing to a social media centric project using React, Node, GraphQL, and ArangoDB....wait? what is that? So what is ArangoDB?ArangoDB is a highly available and ...

Did you know you can create additional scopes without specifying a keyword? Let me demonstrate this briefly:public void MyFunction(){ var x = 1; { var y = 2; } var z = 3;} Enter ...

This week the Forem team hosted four streams on Twitch during Hacktoberfest. Here is a recap of what we discussed! Monday Oct 19th: Gratitude Stream.Nick Taylor and I gave shoutouts to DEV commun...

This post was originally posted here Hello Http (headers)Almost everything in the web is sent with http and even non-developers have seen it when using the internet as keywordinside urls or links...

It's almost the weekend!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 ...

As someone with a solid understanding of JavaScript and Ruby but not much of other programming languages, I've always wanted to learn more about a toolset many JavaScript developers are praising: Type...

Trending Projects is available as a weekly newsletter please sign up at www.iainfreestone.com to ensure you never miss an issue. 1. SvelteSvelte is a new way to build web applications. It's a com...

Without any boring intro, let me get straight to the point. Go to this linkRight-click and go inspect then go to consoleNow copy the below script and paste it on the consolefunction youtubeUnsubscribe...

I don't work in IT but I've been a localisation engineer and a translation & localisation project manager for 15 years. Minus 2.5 years on parental leave.During those 2.5 years, I genuinely starte...

Hey there!I would love to find upcoming online conferences, especially front end related ones!...

Have you ever encountered an error like this while dealing with JavaScript Arrays?Uncaught TypeError: children.forEach is not a functionforEach is surely a function of an Array, then why do we get an ...

Intersection type level operator & has changed in the last versions of TypeScript. The current behavior escalates 'never' type, so if any of fields will produce empty/never type, the whole composi...

I live in Germany and Germany is known for its diversity. The people are diverse, the culture is diverse and the quality of internet connections are equally as diverse. Having spoken to my internet pr...

Most of us who have a fear of coding, in reality, have a fear of failing.Even if we haven't started learning a programming language yet, we already think we will fail instantly.Why do we think like th...

It's a common task in NLP to either check a text against a pattern or extract parts from the text that matches a certain pattern. A regular expression or "regex" is a powerful tool to achieve this. W...

In this article we are going to take a look at how we can record our screen using Python. Before getting into it, one should firstly understand what actually a video is. Basically, a video is nothing ...

Do you like scary movies?I decided to create a fun and smart Halloween bot using Azure Bot Service and Cognitive services. Specifically, a bot about Halloween movies. Halloween movies, like Scream. ...

This article contains coding hints and mini examples about JavaScript. You may find them helpful during your JavaScript language exploration on codeguppy.com.Variablesif statementFor loopWhile loopDo ...

So you may or may not have heard about this CIDR - Class Inter Domain routing , ever wonder what is it or why is it even needed? In this post i have tried to oversimplify it by using my own formulas a...

Hi Dev World! My name is Amanda, and I am a Software Engineer student.It's a pleasure to join your community.I thought a lot about my first post here, and to be sincere, I don't find myself ready to w...

Application deployment comprises the steps, processes, and activities required to make an application or update available for its intended users. The manner in which you deploy an application matters ...

Kubernetes explained to Product ManagersIf you're a Product Manager, a Product Owner or someone working in a tech company, you might have heard the words containers, Docker, Kubernetes or cluste...

What is Infrastructure as code? / Where is it coming from?To understand what Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is, we need to understand first where its coming from, and why it was created. How ...

A few months ago, I had a conundrum: I couldn't stand virtual conferences.I personally go to in-person conferences to talk to people: to catch up with friends, to make new friends, to have intellectua...

This post has been originally published on my blogDark mode has been a trend for the last few years, and you can find almost all website enable that, including famous ones like Twitter, and the main ...

In my previous post I covered how to implement authentication in depth using Next.js with AWS.In this post, we'll take the next steps to talk about the data story, how it fits in to the picture, and h...

As Hacktober is going to end soon. What is your current score in Hacktober 2020? PR created : 232 PR Merged : 112 Under Review : 90Note: That's not my score of course but you can use this format to d...

Welcome back to Code Review. If you're just joining us, learn more about Coderbyte's weekly coding challenges and solve our first challenge here.I hope everyone had a great week (and have made plans t...

Cover photo by Wolfgang Mennel on Unsplash.I was asked the other day at work to change a two-button setup for managing the active status of a user into some kind of slide toggle widget.So instead of c...

When it comes to remote working, there are a few things that are fundamental for achieving success. At the top of this list, is good collaboration. The collaboration practices that your remote team fo...

In the first part, I wrote about flexbox properties that affected the flex container. In this second part, I'll be giving you flexbox properties that affect the flex items along with how they work.I'l...

In this article we're going to take a closer look at an open source demo published by @coldi. Coldi made a game, called Colmen's Quest (that you should definitely check out), using react and react-thr...

Understanding Docker can be difficult or time-consuming. In order to spread knowledge about Cloud technologies I started to create sketchnotes about Docker. I think it could be a good way, more visual...

IntroductionPromises are one of the most important yet confusing and difficult to understand part of JavaScript, that most freshers, as well as experienced developers, struggle to understand.So ...

In this series of posts, I want to go through some security-related frontend issues that I find interesting. I will try to test out these ideas with code and keep track of my findings at least for my ...

If you're trying to get into game development as a Software Engineer, finding learning materials with the right level of context can be challenging. You'll likely face a choice between following mater...

SASS effectively gives us a lot of the programmatic benefits of working with code, only now with the ability to apply it to stylesheets. In this post, we'll be diving right into the features of SASS, ...

Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on UnsplashI often hear people saying MacOS and Linux are similar. I would like to propose that they are in fact very different.But why does this matter? Well, for one, I wr...

Welcome to the third entry in my Sorting Algorithms in JS series here on Dev! I've previously covered both Selection Sort and Insertion Sort in previous posts, so check those out if you'd like to lear...

IntroductionHey, $users! Recently I started working with Terraform and taught there is no better way to recap my knowledge but to create a blog post on it! I hope it turns out great and you lear...

Communicating with customers via SMS text messages is fast becoming part of a multi-channel customer experience where people get to choose which channel they prefer to use when connecting with brands...

Nadia Eghbals recent book Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software, covers what the open source experience is like for maintainers today. It ends with the following senten...

I wanted to write up some thoughts and a quick tutorial on one of my favorite development tools, Storybook. You can use Storybook which allows you to develop user interface components in isolation. It...

Let me start by asking you a question. Say, your employer is ready to offer you the perk of permanent remote work but asks you to take a pay cut (5-20%), would you take it?A recent survey indicates th...

Computational Thinking, ScratchSo I am finally embarking on the journey that is CS50. And these are my notes from week 0.After a lot of hesitation and a lot of saying to myself that 'I'll do it ...

Sometimes learning your first programming language may turn into a hard torment, so you will not have a desire to go for learning the second or third language. However, stopping at a single technology...

IntroductionI'm a freelance web developer working on various projects regularly. I use Firebase a lot when I need to get up and running quickly. I recently heard about "Supabase - the open sourc...

Hello Dev.to and all the folks in here! For several months now, I've been meaning to start blogging here. And finally, over a half year of living and working remotely, I've got my rubber ducks in a ro...

I love HTML. The more I learn about it, the more I think it is genius work. Above all, I love that it is not a programming language. Programming languages suck. They fail all the time (I swear, I alwa...

We recently had the pleasure of hosting Liyas Thomas, the Founder and Maintainer of Hoppscotch, on our Open Source Friday stream. Liyas gave us so many insights about being a developer, building a pro...

What is cloud-native application? The application that is built to take full advantage of the underlying cloud platform. built in the cloudfor the cloudmaximizing the benefits of the cloudCloud-native...

I decided the best way for me to understand basic data structures and algorithms is for me to write a little bit about them during my learning process. This is in no way an in-depth description of how...

Allow for some load time What's not to love with Halloween?It is the candy corn of my sunken eye sockets! So this October, I set out to find the spookiest designs.Click to Start in order play music ...

This post will walk you through how to create your own base for a CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) API that will handle todos. We will be using Node.js, MongoDB, Express and Mongoose to create the ...

Every Tuesday, 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 ...

Hello!What is a microcontroller? Its like a mini personal PC, controlling features of a larger component, without an Operating System. It contains a CPU,memory and input/output devices where it can se...

I have just stepped down from moderating /r/reactjs, the "Front Page of React". Here is a braindump of learnings and recollections for my future self and others (like our new mods) who might be embark...

Hi! Im Vaidehi Joshi, Senior Software Engineer at Forem.Ill be joining Nick Taylor and Christina Gorton on Wednesday, October 21st on thePracticalDev Twitch stream to talk about what I do as a senior ...

We are surrounded by tech mammoths. Take for example, Uber. Uber's engineering is fascinating. It has a complex SOA to tackle scalability, reliability, maintainability among others. It natural to fall...

In July, I was asked to participate in a panel for GraphQL Summit and talk about JAMStack. I was so hype and excited!! I was going to have the opportunity to talk with some really cool people at a rea...

Did you know the simple statement of JavaScript needs a lot of work done behind the seen to get it executed?HmmSo the browser doesnt understand javascript directly.Then how are we going to ask the bro...

Last week HashiCorp launched its latest open source project, Waypoint. Waypoint is a tool to streamline the build, deploy, and release workflow for all kinds of applications. Where Terraform focuses o...

Lodash is a JavaScript library that is packed with a bunch of goodies . Unlike Halloween goodies that means you have to do laps around your neighborhood to burn those extra calories. These goodies are...

If you are not a monk, stress is a part of your life.We face it constantly, at work, at home, in various life situations. And if we don't know how to manage it right, we will probably struggle with an...

DB-API is an acronym of DataBase Application Programming Interface and a library which lets python connect to the database server. Depending on which relational DB library you use, they have their own...

Natural Language Processing is a very vast field of research and it consists of so many tasks like Machine translation, Question Answering, Text Summarization, Image captioning, Sentiment Analysis, et...

Some time ago people found programming something unattainable, something that can be acquired by few. But those times are far behind us. Today, more and more people want to master programming skills. ...

You can find all source code for this post in a starter template here. What is Tailwind?You've probably heard of Tailwind by now, but if you haven't, it is essentially a utility-first CSS framewo...

Interaction with customers is essential for most businesses, especially online ones. Automating at least a part of this interaction using chatbots can be a great solution if done right, of course.The...

On October 8th, DEV Community member Eliot Sanford joined Christina and I on the pairing stream to work on an accessibilty issue.We had a lot of fun and got a proof of concept running on the frontend ...

This is the tailored list of extensions which I use almost on daily basis. These extension have helped me over time to increase productivity and get the best out of my time. I am sure some of these ex...

TL;DR: Test features in isolation. Test releases as a whole. You know the drill: its the night before a release, and your dev team is scrambling to address last-minute feedback before deploying to pro...

Laravel is a modern PHP framework that allows developers to build web applications of all sizes. With a plethora of supporting packages and extensions that compose its ecosystem, Laravel has become a ...

My beginningsMy beginnings with OpenSource started back in December 2017. At that time I was a Senior Java developer with 6 years of professional experience in various projects here and there.Ho...

On the heels of announcing official Vue support for Ionic Framework, I wanted to dig into why we decided to officially support Vue here at Ionic, and why were so excited about it.But first, if you are...

Its the Fourth week of Hacktoberfest and were continuing to celebrate by highlighting the amazing people in our community who have contributed to Forem's codebase!Were thrilled to share that weve had ...

Docker is the tool we use every day in our development, but how much time do you waste waiting for Docker build to complete? And how do you deal with gigantic image size?What if I tell you there's a b...

Sometimes, I trip myself up by forgetting to run the webpack when I open a JavaScript project. My default setup is have webpack watching for edits and automatically triggering bundling. Usually it's w...

Your task is to write a function loneliest() which accepts a string and will return the character that has the most spaces to its right and left. Examples'a b c' => ['b']'a bcs d k...

From Java Padawan to Java JediWhat does a potential Java junior need to know to get the first job or even qualify for a trainee position in a good company? What tools will help a Java programmer reach...

As a software developer, Git and Github is something you can't do without. In this article, I will be explaining what Git & Github is all about, how to get started, pushing your codes to Github, C...

Selecting or omitting properties from a JavaScript object is a fairly common problem without a built-in solution. In this post, we're going to roll our own pick and omit utility functions to help us a...

Hooks came and took the React community by the storm. Its been a while since their initial release, meaning there are a lot of supporting libraries. It is hard not to come by hooks word while searchin...

Interested in Express? Unsure how to get started with the MERN (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js) ? This tutorial will get you up and running with a full CRUD (Create, Read, Update, DELETE) REST...

Garbage collection is nothing new under the sun. Yet, there are many JavaScript developers who don't know much about it. If you are one of them, don't worry. This tutorial will help you understand the...

Last time, I told you what I think about the question "What is your current salary?". Let's talk now about a very different beast, the question about your salary expectations. TL;DRIf you are at ...

Like most software developers and people in tech, I often experience imposter syndrome that reminds me of how little I actually know. For such imposters like me, its important to journal my reflection...

Node.js is a Javascript platform that is built on Chrome's V8 Javascript engine and allows you to build powerful applications. 1. Installing NodeYou can install node js by visiting this link ...

Hi everyone! So I had couple of interviews this year for JavaScript software development roles, and I felt its worth writing an article on some of the interview questions I was asked.In this article I...

I like reading through my old CS coursework every so often. It's fun to reminisce, and it's in a way validating to see how far I've come since then. It's also a little bittersweet. During school, I wa...

To me, regular expressions are often made far more complicated than they need to be. Sure, there are a lot of options and little details to learn regarding regular expressions, and on top of that, the...

If you write web applications (and the authentication for them) or work in the space of cryptocurrency, understanding the basics of asymmetric cryptography (also known as "Public Key Cryptography") is...

Why You Should Care About this QuestionMaybe you heard it in an Object-Oriented Programming book. Maybe you read it on Stack Overflow. Maybe you're reading a textbook for school.Eventually, you ...

Recursion is one of the most important concepts of programming paradigms. Most of your problems can be broken into smaller problems and solved through Recursion. DefinitionRecursion is the art/pr...

From childhood, we're fascinated with illusions, as they deceive our reality. Who doesn't love a great optical illusion? But it is important for designers to understand optical illusions, as we deal w...

IntroductionIn this post, we will answer the following 5 questions:Why do we need a software architecture?What is a Monolithic Architecture?What is a Layered Architecture?What is a Microservices...

This post also can be viewed as a YouTube series here.In this post, I am going to walk through why the Passport-JWT authentication strategy is a simple, secure solution for small teams and startups im...

I was working on a task that involved parsing data from CSV files and saving it into rails models when I noticed something that didnt look right. On calling to_json on one of the parsed csv rows, I go...

My job requires me to speak at conferences. Despite the current situation, this hasn't changed much. At the time of this writing, I submitted 439 different proposals to 215 unique conferences in 2020....

At my previous company, BreezoMeter, we had a problem, but it wasnt a software architecture one, a code plight, or a cultural issue.The problem was... [cue Scooby-Doo sound effect - DAM DAM DAM] - the...

Learning React can be challenging in the first few weeks. Getting to know how to use props when to use class or functional components. I am still on this journey of learning React and I found it helpf...

In this short tutorial, you will learn Spread Operators in JavaScript and how to use them.ES6 introduced new features in JavaScript. One of the famous of them is the spread operator.You can recognize ...

In this post, I am going to show you common sorting algorithms and provide their implementation in python.If you are a programmer or if you have already been interviewed for a job, then you surely kno...

Seaborn is a graphing tool that is used within python as a means to display and interpret data. For any data scientist who is going to be displaying their findings or simply making a presentation, ...

JavaScript language stands on two pillars: functional programming and prototypal delegation. The addition of classes in JavaScript is mere a syntactic sugar to give it Object-oriented programming feel...

Lesser-known risks of ISPs and why I chose ExpressVPNMost people know that a VPN is meant to protect your privacy on public or open Wi-Fi. A lesser-known purpose is to protect your privacy right...

For a new user?I've used windows for most of my life like most people. Last year when I got a new laptop and started learing python I heard about linux on the internet. I always knew about linux...

In 2020, my personal recommendation to web developers is to use Svelte for Sites, and React for Apps. This is, remarkably, a nuanced enough opinion that it pisses off fans of either of them. I mention...

Free and Open Source software is maintained by people working remotely from around the world. Hence, effective communication is important for any project to function smoothly. Especially, asynchronous...

One of the more valuable training exercises I've had in my career was a slide deck on interview feedback. It reinforced two points that I try to keep in mind when conducting interviews and giving inte...

I don't use nil, or at least I try not to.NoMethodError: undefined method 'some_method' for nil:NilClass Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode This is one of the most common errors s...

I've used Vim time to time for a pretty long time, but mostly it was just some simple boring tasks like to change some configuration file on the remote server through SSH. Therefore I used the rather ...

Who can relate?1.Spending a year on a new update Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode 2. A month out from pushing the update Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode ...

A lot of people use flexbox every day. But I still face people who have some problems with it. Thus I have gathered the questions to help you learn flexbox completely. Also I added all tutorials that ...

Learning Functional Programming has a high learning curve. However, if you have something familiar to base it off of, it helps a lot. If you know React & Redux, this gives you a huge head start. B...

ProblemThe Internet is likely the most dangerous place youll ever visit. Its filled with phishing pages, insecure forms exposing your data, cryptominers, malware downloads, insane popups, and mo...

IIFE is a function that is declared and invoked at the same time. You create them by using anonymous functions and enclosing the function in round brackets (). You can then invoke them by merely calli...

This post was originally published on leoloso.comLast week I made a proposal to add embeddable fields to GraphQL, but it didn't get a lot of support. I got the feedback that the extra complexity added...

Going back in time has its own fun. Things we had done in the past and built over time is amazing. Computers were big and heavy, the internet was expensive, a new world opens for people like us and we...

This has been my first year participating in Hacktoberfest. It's been a tumultuous few weeks with all the spam PRs and contest changes. But here we are with only two weeks left in October. So what did...

Hello there,For those who don't know me, do check out my website and my other blogs.I recently accepted Microsoft's offer for Software Engineer II at IDC, Bangalore. I realized a blog about this might...

This tutorial will cover ways to find the match of a string within either another string or within an array, including:strict equalityincludes()test()match()This is not an exhaustive guide to all avai...

When it comes to dates we often add big libraries like Moment.js or Luxon just to format a simple date. But it is actually much simpler than that by using the toLocalDateString() method. We don't have...

I have used both framework and symfony looks robust and simple while laravel is like a large stack.Laravel vs symfony is much like comparing python vs golang where python is adopted by big community a...

Every year I dust off my resume and apply for a couple of jobs that look interesting. Do I do that because conventional wisdom in the tech industry says that if you dont change jobs every 1-2 years yo...

Hey there! After learning the fundamentals of TailwindCSS in just a couple of days, I published and open-sourced a simple portfolio template! Live demo: https://braydentw.github.io/react-tailwind-por...

Hello again, World!It has been a while since I wrote my last blog on API > CLI > Space Exploration. I was sooo exhilarated in passing my first capstone project, and now slowly diving into the wo...

Hey everyone,The other day, I posted this AMA post to get some questions to go over in our Twitch livestream. Im Lisa Sy, a Product Designer at DEV/Forem - AMA Lisa S...

This week the Forem team hosted four streams on Twitch during Hacktoberfest. Here is a recap of what we discussed! Tuesday Oct 13th: Gratitude Stream.Nick Taylor and I gave shoutouts to DEV commu...

Why, what, how Thanks for opening this article! This is first part of AdobeXD from scratch series. With these articles I aim to show you the process of prototyping. It does not matter if your go...

Cover photo by Silvio Kundt on UnsplashThe facade pattern is a structural design pattern, commonly used when there is some interaction with a complex external library or service.In this pattern, we cr...

This post is part of a series where I try to dissect computers in just enough detail so you can understand the "magic" that goes on behind the curtains when you write a "hello world" program or open u...

The interview is not only getting asked to invert a binary tree for working on a Rails shop or designing a microservice architecture with Kafka to solve the business imaginary scaling challenges. It i...

IntroductionChances are that you are already using slack in your personal or workplace communications. Let's learn how we can make your slack channels even more powerful. In this tutorial, let's...

As an early-stage startup, you face a lot of challenges with business, technology, talent, and market competition. You have to worry about building your MVP and the latest features you want to add in ...

Modern continuous delivery methods demand the use of hypotheses, not requirements, to deliver what customers want. Startups and developers should embrace continuous experimentation and adaption right ...

Ever since I was a kid, I have loved pink. Maybe in that sense I was one of those "stereotypical" girls. But at the same time I liked technology, programming and gaming, things that stereotypically ha...

A few week ago 2 people asked me the same question on Twitter: "how do I make a better portfolio?"Since, it's not the first time I have this question, I decided to answer in public.Before I start, jus...

When it comes to routing in Angular, there are some concepts we need to understand.In this article, I'm going to break down the following router related topics for you.Initial router setupNavigating t...

IntroductionIn this article, you will see how to easily create your own REST API server to be accessible on the internet without coding and without the need of hosting it on any hosting provider...

It's that time of the week again. So wonderful devs, what did you learn this week? It could be programming tips, career advice etc.Feel free to comment with what you learnt and/or reference your TIL p...

You want to build a tiny website with just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You don't want to import a ton of libraries or use a framework that performs ultra enhanced low latency rendering under the hood.Y...

Writing unit tests will keep your Gatsby blog bug-free, and leads to more maintainable code. This post covers how you can use Jest and React Testing Library to cover some of your Gatsby blogs most ess...

Would you do it again? What would you change?...

TL;DR - I made my own version of Snake! You can play the game here! Background & SettingWhile going through Wes Bos' Beginner JavaScript course, the first big project we did was creating an E...

In this article, I am going to show you how you can build a simple web crawler with Python and BeautifulSoup that checks for broken links. PrerequisitesBefore we are going to make our application...

Image credit: wpc.guideThe web is going through an unprecedented period of change and evolution. New features, new technologies and new ideas are coming to the web. Luckily, it's a platform that, sinc...

Originally Published at vikky.devRecently I came across an interesting question on twitter about average working hours per day. Sri Gokul Krishnan @srigoku...

I have started volunteering at CodeYourFuture, an organisation that helps refugees and disadvantaged people to become Software Developers. This is my background and why giving someone a life-changing ...

In this guide, we'll create the a basic Psychotherapy App for iOS with Stream Chat, for its fully featured chat components, and Dolby.io, for its excellent audio and video capabilities. Both offerings...

Another week, another Explained By a Non-Developer blog! Are you tired of em yet? This round is dedicated to another cult favorite programming language, Python. Before I did any research on Python the...

Junior and overtime seem to go together these days. I see a lot of people encouraging "staying in the office" (well, staying to your desk at home, more likely) because that's how you will get noticed,...

I've been learning .Net for work, which isn't too challenging. But after working with JavaScript for a year, having to use Pascal Case is the most annoying difference between the two languages.Even af...

In this post I want to share four different approaches to installing and configuring your Amazon Aurora database clusters. Everything in this post is covered in detail in the embedded video, but I wan...

CSS is powerful, you can do a lot of things without JS, also it's important because it controls all design-related aspects of your website. Typography, colors, page layouts, and any other visual aspec...

Understanding Docker can be difficult or time-consuming. In order to spread knowledges about Cloud technologies I started to create sketchnotes about Docker. I think it could be a good way, more visua...

Hey guys, after the Make it Rain with HTML Canvas, I am back with another fun canvas experiment. This time I created flashes of lightning using the line method of canvas. The creativity of canvas is u...

Credit: MarketscaleEveryone knows about the datasets from Kaggle and other sources like UCI, but there are treasure troves of data out there at your fingertips right now that you might not know of!One...

I'm attempting to add pagination to my blog which is setup with nuxt/content module and I am currently pulling all my posts in which I want to avoid. this is the blog page:...<ul class="pl-5">&...

I'm terrible! I missed my post last week. The week just slipped right past me! Now, it's already mid-week and I haven't shared anything with you. So here's what I've been up to. I'm about two and a h...

Finding your perfectly-fit job should not be rocket science, especially for the new job seekers.There are lots of articles that explain how to write a killer technical resume, I will focus here on the...

Yesterday I had a 1:1 with my coworker/friend Nicole. I told her about my continuous fight with being a slow developer. Especially when working with developers who move quickly, I often feel shame abo...

Your personal productivity usually takes a hit while working from home vs. in an office environment. In the usual case, even when you're working remotely for your company, you also have the option of ...

TLDR give me the code now!Imagine a friendly Github Action bot that adds this to all the PRs (per commit) to your repo: Green Lighthouse metricsWeb pages with Google Lighthouse metrics that are g...

This article was originally published a day earlier at https://maximorlov.com/automated-deployments-from-github-with-webhook/Hosting your app on a VPS instead of a Platform-as-a-Service has you missin...

Last week I read Chris Coyier's essay, "The Widening Responsibility for Front-end Developers," and it hit me hard. It reminded me how the career I enjoy so much is also one of my biggest sources of an...

In this article I will share my approach for the dark/light mode toggle that I recently implemented in a React project, which I think is quite easy to understand also for beginners.First I add a <s...

In my previous post I was writing about using Redux with React for the state management. This blog posts is describing the different approach - using Context object. 1. Managing stateLet's first ...

They say talking to someone about their experiences is the only legitimate form of time travel. Well that's what we did when we spoke to Mislav Marohni. He's one of the maintainers of the GitHub CLI a...

Yesterday we learned how to set up our first Angular project. Today we will be adding Tailwind CSS so we can easily use its simplicity in styling components.Note: when setting up your project, make su...

Keeping development projects organized can be a difficult task when you have a lot of them, what methods do you employ to keep yours organized on your computer? ...

Recently I decided to extend my capabilities to start working as a full-stack web developer. My first goal was to figure out which skills I am going to choose among the popular ones these days and com...

It's been a very long and crazy ride but I'm happy to share that the project I've been working so hard since I joined the npm team more than an year ago is finally out! npm7 is the new major version o...

Every Tuesday, 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 ...

As a Next.js user, one of the things I've been used to working with were built-in API routes. When I tried out Nuxt, I was curious how I would achieve the same functionality. In this post, I'll walk t...

IntroductionI have been in Software Engineering for a decade and a half and I am not a Computer Science graduate. Hence, I've never truly been taught Data Structures or Algorithms as a part of t...

Amazon S3 was the first AWS service I ever used, which I would guess is a pretty common occurrence -- it's pretty simple and allows you to store files such as images or videos on your site.S3 stands f...

Amazon S3 was the first AWS service I ever used, which I would guess is a pretty common occurrence -- it's pretty simple and allows you to store files such as images or videos on your site.S3 stands f...

As a developer, I feel the pain every time I have to build a web page and I know that I don't have a designer to help me with the styles, especially with the colour, because let's be honest as an engi...

Devops? Dev workflows? I'm curious what people are doing with those...

Let me start directly - do you consider "no-code tools" to be "anti-developer"? Do you consider it beneath you to use no-code tools? Does it hurt your ego?I would hope that the answer to all of these ...

I always hear people talking about how great Linux is to use for development but I am curious what computers do you use? Is it a Mac or Windows machine with multiple boot options or do you buy somethi...

State management has always been opinionated in React community. Redux was a revolutionary tech for the React ecosystem when it was first released. It allowed applications to have a global store that ...

Frameworks have become a vital piece of each frontend and backend development in this cutting edge age. Utilizing frameworks upheld by a huge number of developers around the globe is exceptionally dow...

If you're on Twitter on 13th October 2020, you might notice:Yes, that's Ada Lovelace as an emoji.#AdaLovelaceDay celebrates and highlights the achievements of women in STEM and the story of a pioneeri...

In any dynamic programming coding interview you take, you'll likely encounter the knapsack problem. This question is often a source of anxiety to interviewees because of the complexity of the solution...

PostgreSQL also called Postgres, is an open-source, object-oriented relational database management system released under the PostgreSQL license. In this post, I wanted to do a little cheat sheet on ho...

Hello friends!In honor of Monday and the new season swirling around outside my window, I have a simple question about productivity and resetting your brain... Assuming music is part of your daily...

Its intimidating when you first step into the world of open-source. There are events held online such as Hacktoberfest to help you get an insight into this by encouraging and helping you make some dum...

Ideally testing catches bugs before they are sent to users. In the previous article, we introduced Testing, today, we'll be talking about Unit Tests.Unit testing allows you to validate that individual...

The delegate pattern is a very useful design solution in Swift - its handiness comes from the fact that it can pass responsibility around within your code. One class or struct can call a delegate meth...

What is Middleware?As the name suggests, middleware is basically a mechanism that comes in the middle of the usual request-response cycle, usually to provide some sort of intermediate functional...

As you may already know, our goal at HarperDB is to be the easiest, most user-friendly, and intuitive database there is. Keeping in line with this, along with the many resources, features, and package...

Angular The frameworkAngular was the first real web framework I used. It taught me a great deal about building complex web apps. If I were to describe it in one word it would be: structure....

If you work with anything related to frontend and you havent tried Cypress yet, I highly suggest you give it a try. But, if you use Cypress and dont have a CI/CD pipeline set up yet, read forward for ...

The first century spans from the year 1 up to and including the year 100, The second - from the year 101 up to and including the year 200, etc. Return the century of the input year. Examples"199...

Google is well-known for hiring only the best of the best. They're incredibly selective, hiring only 0.25% of candidates who apply, making it harder to get a job at Google than it is to get into Harva...

Amplify hosting enables you to deploy websites and web apps to AWS's global edge CDN with only a few clicks.In this tutorial you'll learn how to deploy a static or SPA (Single Page Application) NuxtJS...

I've been settling into my accessibility specialty for a while. But I'm ashamed to say I haven't spent much time looking over the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) in detail. I've read throu...

The Pythons package installer, pip, is known to have issues when resolving software stacks. In the upcoming series of articles, I will briefly discuss an approach that helped to resolve versions of li...

I am fascinated by Machine Learning models and the incredible tools they offer our world, whether for making decisions, predicting trends, improving lives and even saving them. Those models are traine...

Want to get better at Web Development ? Subscribe to my weekly newsletter at https://codesnacks.net/subscribe/These are some of the VS Code Extension that I'm using on a regular basis to make me a mor...

IntroHi guys,In this tutorial, we're going to learn how to Make a Plagiarism Detector in Python using machine learning techniques such as word2vec and cosine similarity in just a few lines of co...

Understanding Docker can be difficult or time-consuming. In order to spread knowledges about Cloud technologies I started to create sketchnotes about Docker. I think it could be a good way, more visua...

WeakMap is one of the most underrated and least used data structures in JavaScript. There are many JavaScript developers who don't even know they exist. This tutorial will help you understand them. Yo...

In this series I'm going to choose a random website, analyze the frontend code (performance & best practices) and UX, and present my findings. By taking a look at the issues on existing projects, ...

I'm not saying it's good to fail tech assessment, but hear me out.First of all, I've been on both sides of the interview table, and to be honest, I hate the assessment part.For many reasons, which I w...

Many things can be done to make an HTML table accessible: add a <caption>, use semantic HTML (<thead>, <tbody>, <tfoot>...), associate date with the right headers (using role, ...

Introduction To Arrays What Are Arrays?Arrays are single variables ( objects ) which can contain many data values (types ) in them arranged in a list. These values are enclosed in a square...

In 2007, just after his cancer diagnosis, Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch gave a well received lecture on Time Management. These are my notes (slides here, transcript here). Money vs TimeW...

Full Stack Serverless applications are applications that combine the following three things:Decoupled frontendsInfrastructure as codeServerless technologies for maximum scalability with minimum devops...

In this post, I will share my thought on how I like to structure methods on how to get data from your REST API backend. The idea here is to show the basics of my idea, and then you should add, remove,...

If you've heard of "operating system", but nothing comes to mind beyond "Mac and Windows?", then this post is for you! "Mac, Windows, or Linux?"This has go to be one of the most frequently debat...

If you like what I write, the chances are you would love what I email. Stay up-to-date by subscribing to my mailing list.Being present online is difficult when you have a full-time job. I keep my soci...

Secure Copy command or simply known as a "scp" command is a command-line utility that allows you to securely copy files and directories between two locations.Using scp, you can copy a file:From your l...

The way to gain your expertise in web development can be done more quickly with the help of the following Chrome extensions 1. PixelZoomer View on Chrome web storeDimension and Size CheckerPixel...

In this article, I'm going to explain some ways to communicate between multiple applications and a particular way that I have chosen to use in my current project and work.If you are not familiar with ...

In this era of Digitalization, almost every individual has a smartphone with them, may it be Android or iOS. The benefits of smartphone would be a never-ending list and we ain't going to focus on that...

Rote memorization is usually a bad idea for programmers but in some cases it's worthwhile to know something by heart.In this video tutorial I'll cover some useful numbers that I think are essential an...

Nowadays in our busy schedules and tight deadlines, it's critical to choose tools that increase productivity.Here I have compiled the list of some of my favorite NPM packages. I've also sorted them in...

As a developer I've always had a problem : Find new concepts to learn. You can learn concepts at work with your colleagues, by contributing to open source projects or by reading articles like here. Bu...

One of the more difficult aspects of attending a coding bootcamp has been juggling all of the requirements in order to be successful. We arent just here to learn software development. Many, if not all...

Let's be honest. Writing CSS can sometimes be a b*tch. As projects grow larger, the CSS styles can become quite hard to maintain - from naming things, trying to align content perfectly and figuring ou...

After CSS, 11ty (Eleventy) is my favorite thing to talk about and create resources for. I'd like to share my new starting point for kickstarting an 11ty static site with Sass.This starter is an evolut...

Recently, I finally integrated unit testing into my startup project. I've settled with Jest, I'll speak more about this in a separate journal entry. While writing my test, I ran into a bit of a dilemm...

I had a great conversation with a friend about premature optimizations.One thing led to another, and we have started talking about caching and Memoization. Each of us had a very different perspective ...

A curated collection of beautiful premade gradients using default colors from the Tailwind CSS library.Check it out at hypercolor.devHeavily inspired by the likes of webgradients.com and grabient.com,...

Asking for your current salary is not a legitimate question and should be treated as such. The dreaded salary questionHere is the context:You are on the initial phone screen call with someone fr...

Hello Pythonistas,Python is awesome, its one of the easiest languages with simple and intuitive syntax but wait, have you ever thought that there might ways to write your python code simpler?In this t...

During our busy routines as developers, investing in stocks might be a clever passive strategy to let your money grow while you are working on other projects, so you can double your rewards later.Have...

Since 2015, ES6 and the above versions have implemented many of the features of the utility libraries like Lodash and Underscore, questioning the need to use them as 3rd-party packages.This brings up ...

Why do we experience the dread of using certain tools over others (debugger vs. console.log)? Have you thought about how you feel when programming?35:31 Omar: Once I kind of started introspecting abou...

Was having a nostalgic chat with some coworkers recently about programming languages we've used in the past, especially some outside of those that we seem to more talk about, like Python, C, Ruby, Go,...

Recently I had tweeted out a handful of #SadJavaScript comics. Joel Thoms JavaScript @joelnet #S...

In this blog post I describe the refactoring process that took place in our product landing page Kubernetic, in order to get a more clean UI. The whole process took 5 days and was a complete rewrite o...

It's almost the weekend!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 ...

photo by @joannakosinskaAs a recent graduate from the Flatiron School Software Engineering program, I've just begun my job search and have been trying to grow my online presence. One important aspect ...

[Image: #WOCinTech Chat]This weekend I asked Twitter, What are some of your pet peeves when it comes to technical blog posts? What I really wanted to know was, Whats missing in technical blog posts? I...

Have you ever tried to reveal a secret value stored in your continuous integration/delivery service? No? Well, maybe someone else did.Automation (or "CI") services We are all using them, or at least s...

No, I did not steal the title from Jeff Orlowski; I borrowed it. Having watched Netflix's The Social Dilemma recently, I certainly gained a fresh insight into the tech world but did not find myself ac...

Shopify is one of the largest e-commerce platforms on the planet, with a massive 20% global market share of the top 1 million websites using eCommerce technologies (According to Built with - Correct a...

Hello there! I'm Benno, a blue bear falls in love with coding . The first time I met Go was about a year ago. I was looking for a self-hosted Git service for my team. I tried GitLab in the first place...

Is accessibility only limited to have correct alt tags, color contrast as per the WCAG, or using semantic tags?This question we should ask ourselves when developing web applications. I keep aski...

IntroductionTime... Time... Time... a word we hear a lot of, but also something we don't have a lot of, how many times have you said 'It's on my to-do list', 'i'm on it' or even 'Don't worry we ...

If you like what I write, you may want to subscribe to my newsletter. Feel free to @ me on twitter for any discussion.The vanilla CSS(without any external JavaScript and CSS libraries) allows animatio...

Vite is a Lightening fast cold server that offers instant hot modules replacement and True on demand compilation.This tool was created by the Creator of Vuejs, but this doesnt mean that it can only be...

In this article I will tell you laptops you can buy for Coding and Programming Laptops For Web DevThe things you need for web dev in a laptop are:Display: A big ratio display is needed for multit...

Contributing to open source is a super boost for every developer. Hacktoberfest is the best way to get started if you are new to this.It's a month-long celebration of open source this year sponsored b...

IntroductionIn this article, we will create a file upload and download functionality with a preview of the image using the MERN stack.By creating this App, you will learnHow to upload a file usi...

If you have ever been curious about how an anti-cheat works or if you plan to write your own, then in this post I'm going to give you a few tips on how to detect and protect your application from thes...

SortingSorting is one of the concepts of the basic algorithm as important as searching algorithms. There are tons of algorithms to sort items. Why do we need to sort elements? Because problems b...

If you want to start coding and create your own solutions - be it an App, a Website or something else - or if you want to start a career as developer, you're in luck! There has never been so many and ...

Regardless of our individual circumstances, everybody is, in some capacity, still living through a pandemic.It's certainly made me miss things I didn't even necessarily know I liked or needed.What abo...

IntroductionMany schools across the world have transitioned into fully online experiences with the recent pandemic. With each school's backend stack witnessing new highs in usage, serverless sol...

This post was originally posted on my personal blog. TLDRI created a 3D experience that makes you -LITERALLY- travel through the universe in space from the browser. Its as spectacular as it is be...

Welcome to this post where I will answer your most confusing and challenging questions on python programming language!Post for pythonists! Table of content:1. Frequently asked questions.2. Unders...

If you want to jump right in and see my detailed daily stats breakdown - check https://devalytics.terabytetiger.com/! Note: At the time of writing, once the page loads you'll need to click the "Update...

In this article, I want to talk about five things I wish someone told me before becoming a developer. Whether you are an experienced developer or just starting, I believe the article will benefit you....

When you share your Gatsby blog to the world, youll want to make sure you give a good first impression. With react-helmet and meta tags, we can make sure your posts show up in Google like this:And on ...

I have been working on my startup(s) for about 4 years now. Building a startup is a journey of many mistakes and a few successes.The successes, while few, still get most of the limelight. So, what I n...

Knowing is not enough; We must apply. Willing is not enough; We must do. Bruce Lee Table of Content Introduction Sample 1 Sample 2 Sample 3 Sample 4 Conclusion IntroductionWhen creatin...

Hey, devs around the world,I set the goal of learning Golang about a year ago. But then the Stackoverflow Developer Survey was released and I saw that Rust was a good competitor against Golang. Now, I...

I think we are all aware we as developers are responsible for making the web more accessible.With accessibility, we mean making websites that are designed and coded so people with disabilities can use...

IntroductionToday, there are a lot of devices from where a user can access the web page. As the device changes their screen sizes, resolution and all. So it becomes necessary to optimize your we...

In computer science, few tools are used quite as often as search algorithms. We rely on them every day as programmers and engineers to sift through data, and they're built into nearly every modern pro...

Before diving into code, let's first briefly discuss what the heck is Oauth? What is Oauth:OAuth(or Open Authorization) is one of the approaches for authenticating a user in an application. It ma...

Before diving into code, let's first briefly discuss what the heck is Oauth? What is Oauth:OAuth(or Open Authorization) is one of the approaches for authenticating a user in an application. It ma...

Welcome to the second installment of Developer lingo explained by a non-developer. How do you follow up with a term so widely used and intricate to modern development, like JavaScript? I decided to ta...

OverviewIn this post we will be making an http request to OpenLibrary and fetch the name of book titles that match a query. Then, those results will be paginated and displayed. The next batch of...

IntroductionThere are a lot of apps made for food delivery for big cities, but not a lot of them are made for the small cities.The article covers how the app is made, its structure, common probl...

In the finale episode of DevDiscuss Season 2, we chat about site reliability engineering and the highs, lows, and nuances of this interdisciplinary role.As you'll hear, there are many definitions of s...

CSS flexible layout module or flexbox for short is a web layout model that helps in designing a flexible layout. It allows items inside a container to be aligned automatically according to the screen ...

You know you should test everything...Don't you?Well, writing unit test for Docker should be part of your daily routine while developing a new Dockerfile. It can save you a loooot of time spent runnin...

HarperDB Cloud is a database service that supports both SQL and NoSQL queries for CRUD operations. It needs minimal configuration to get started and its realm is not only limited to build REST APIs wi...

As a developer, I always reflect upon the code I write and read. Through this process, I have collected a bunch of useful tips. In this post, I'm going to share those tips that relate to array methods...

[disclaimer: this post will go in depth into many aspects of one possible type of architecture for microservices, and will use Java and SpringBoot to showcase examples. It will not show a full and com...

[disclaimer: this post will go in depth into many aspects of one possible type of architecture for microservices, and will use Java and SpringBoot to showcase examples. It will not show a full and com...

Since the start of the pandemic, we have all had to make significant changes to our lives. Here in Spain, things went crazy around mid-March. I had just started my new job as a Senior Developer Advoca...

As part of my journey to become a better JavaScript programmer, I need to dive deep into JavaScript foundations. In this article, I'll show you mind-boggling questions (for me, it was mind-boggling, I...

By nature, APIs are meant to be used. Even if all of your users are internal, security problems can still arise. To help with this, we've assembled a list of best practices to keep in mind when securi...

Hacktoberfest kicked off last week and is now in full swing. This week on the GitHub Twitch Channel we did a walk through on all things Hacktoberfest.We looked at what Open Source is in the first plac...

While database technology and other tools have come a long way, it's still tough to beat the humble spreadsheet's versatility and intuitiveness. While using them for sensitive, critical applications l...

Knowing all the cutting-edge tech and being efficient in it doesn't mean you're all set for earning big bucks in your dream company. In fact, the employee with the qualities described above combined w...

Selenium has been widely used in automating web applications as it stands out from other testing tools by providing numerous ways to test those applications. No matter how complex the UI is, Selenium ...

The concept of the Symbol can trip up many a developer. In this article, I'll attempt to demystify them and describe what they are.To start: Symbols are a new primitive data type in JavaScript. If you...

IntroductionGit and GitHub have an important role not only to open source but in the daily lives of several developers and companies. However, do you know what Git is? Do you understand what is ...

This article was originally posted on my blog. Head over to inspiredwebdev.com for more articles and tutorials. Check out my JavaScript course on Educative to learn everything from ES6 to ES2020.In th...

Recently, I conducted an extensive review of 12 Gutenberg block plugins. Even though Gutenberg now called the Block Editor has been around since 2017, I haven't used it much beyond converting classi...

Code reviews are a common pratice in tech industry. When you do a Pull Request / Merge Request someone has to review it, give feedback, and approve it when its ready to be part of master branch - if t...

Were so excited to introduce you all to Emiliano, our new Business Development Manager. Based out of Mexico City, Emiliano will spearhead DEVs sponsor relationships everything from hackathon opportun...

Every Tuesday, 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 ...

IntroductionFor a project at work, I needed to learn some simple 3D CSS techniques. So, I decided as a side project to build an Xbox Series X and S model in CSS to learn how to accomplish this.I...

IntroductionAnimations are great. They guide the user focus and can make a site feel snappy and fast. But if done incorrectly, they will do the opposite: they will make the site feel sluggish an...

You most likely visit websites almost every day, whether to interact with friends on social media, to shop, to do work, or thousands of other activities. But, how are websites made? This post will tak...

Reading or Finding document/s is one important operation. In MongoDB, there is a good amount of things that we have to learn to find the data we need. In this post, I will cover all kind of operators ...

Search engines are the most commonly used tools by developers when working on solving programming problems.Routine tasks such as running How to and plugin XYZ for... search queries play a significant ...

I think everyone is familiar with the To-Do list development.In the post I want to give my resolve of the task.Tasks which should be resolved in the post:Storing To-Do listCreating, updating and delet...

The success of our day is largely dependent on the quality of our planning. Some people prefer to make a list of upcoming tasks in a notebook, while others have long started using digital technology s...

Agile project management started life as a methodology for software development. It put forth the idea that interacting with staff and clients is more important than processes and tools. Agile project...

Myths, inaccurate assumptions, urban legends, whatever you call them, there are many out there about a career in software development. If youre a developer, some of these myths hold you back, some set...

I'm sure that most of you are already more than familiar with the MERN stack. Having a React front end with a Node/Express back end that connects to a MongoDB database. Well, I will show you just how ...

The DevOps approach has increased in popularity among software teams to move ahead in a competitive market and efficiently deliver innovative products. If youve already read The Phoenix Project, you h...

While working on a multitude of open source projects I faced an interesting Git puzzle. How can you move a file between Git repos?The easy solution is to just forget about Git history. If you like to ...

This article is about creating your own React Hooks to perform async operations. As an example, we will create a custom useFetch Hook to make API calls. What areHooks?Hooks are functions which le...

Disclaimer: all of this is my personal opinion, you are more than welcome to disagree - let's chat, I'd love to learn your perspective!Software engineering estimates are ridiculously hard.Let's face i...

Closures are one of those concepts that a lot of new developers seem to have trouble with. Myself being one of them. In this post, I will attempt to make this mystery-shrouded concept a little less my...

This article is the first part of a series. Here I will be sharing my experience and challenges. In another post, I'll share the tools I have been using and more technical insight. I realize how broa...

For me it's Github and Visual Studio Code, but what are your favorite free tools and resources?...

Hi guys, Today you're going to learn how to use Python programming in a way that can ultimately save a lot of space on your drive by removing all the duplicates. IntroIn many situations you find ...

In Part 1 of Getting Started with the Canvas API I went over the basics of creating lines and rectangles. Here I'm going to discuss creating more complex shapes.First, I'm going to create a 300x300 ca...

In April 2019 I decided to completely stop developing my cryptocurrency project ending entire year of full time work in failed tech startup which I wanted to create. During that time:I spent about 220...

Hello World Welcome to the new series that I am starting on React called Epic React. This is the first article in this series and I will start it off with the introduction to what this series wi...

Cover image by Bryan GoffTo see the code for these examples, click hereThere are seemingly endless ways of dealing with state management in React. Trying to understand the options, the tradeoffs betwe...

Its the second week of Hacktoberfest and theres no better way to celebrate that than to highlight the amazing people in our community who have contributed to Forem's codebase!Were thrilled to share th...

Over the last several months, Ive been doing qualitative research into the coding school / developer education space. Specifically investigating if, how, and why coding programs incorporate databases ...

Fast loading speed is essential when creating any web application. A few extra seconds could have a huge impact on the number of users visiting your site. This means that having a fast site is importa...

Cover photo by Manidip Mandal on UnsplashI'm a night owl at heart. Hand me a controller or remote and I'll be happy 'til 2am.But after 4 years of college classes and 4 years of parenting demanding I w...

When interviewing for a software engineering job, it's common to be handed a dry erase marker and told to solve some arbitrary problem:"Write a function that determines if the letters in a given strin...

It is that time of the year again, friends!October has begun, and that means it's time to crack your knuckles and start contributing to your favorite open-source projects with full force!As you all kn...

The other day, my wife asked me if I could help her with a way to send a notification to clients who haven't paid a certain amount. Anyway, my wife runs a small business and she does a lot of things t...

WeakSet is one of the newer objects in JavaScript, a JavaScript collection. This collection can seem a bit esoteric. Many JavaScript developers don't know much about it, or at all. In this tutorial, y...

In this series I'm going to choose a random website, analyze the frontend code (performance & best practices) and UX, and present my findings. By taking a look at the issues on existing projects, ...

I will be the first to admit it: I don't like social media.It's not that I do not enjoy the idea of staying connected with the ones that I love and having a way to keep up with their lives. In fact, t...

New gophers that make the switch from Node.js to Go are dealing with a learning curve before they can start building their web applications or microservices. Fiber, as a web framework, was created wit...

Hi, Taishi here How do you manage global data on React?I used to use Redux for that, however, I currently use Context API for that purpose and I don't even install redux and redux-related packages! ...

One of the aspects of mastering scope and the value of this in JavaScript is to understand how apply, call and bind work.This article aims at simplifying these methods. I'll try to keep the explanatio...

Its important to note that Im not a mental health expert. This is based on my personal experience. If youre experiencing any serious mental health issues, please reach out to someone you trust or a me...

These are my notes as I go back & revisit the nitty gritties of JS core concepts. JavaScript Data TypesA value in JavaScript is always of a certain type (ex:number) - data type is the attribu...

One thing common about every programmer, be it senior, junior, or entry-level we often look up syntaxes and methods while coding but it is not possible during an interview. Although many interviewers ...

Movies inspire you to be a smarter and a better person, or in our case a better programmer. Today, when the world is hyper-connected, movies are the best way to see through it.How many of you have wat...

Docker-compose allows us to simulate pretty complex programming setups in our local environments. It is very fun to test some hard-to-maintain technologies such as Kafka and Spark using Docker-compose...

On May 4th, 2020 I started my first Coding Bootcamp with Flatiron School. I was excited, nervous, and anxious but so ready for this. Today I'm almost done with this amazing experience and I can't be m...

The ProblemI am currently starting my first management role as an Engineering Manager at Columbia Spectator, a student newspaper that houses a product engineering division to create useful produ...

What I Learned From Hacktoberfest so farThis is my first Hacktoberfest event to participate in as a code newbie. To be honest at first, when I had the about the event, I thought it was a month w...

When I started my career, books with titles such as "Teach Yourself C in 21 Days", and "Learn Java in 7 Days" were pretty popular. I was impressed that people could read such books. I never thought I ...

I was working for several months with Jest and Vue, but nowadays I'm working with Angular and the testing is part of my learning process.I will explain a little bit about Jasmine and how to write a te...

A bit about meI've been in the professional software industry for over a decade now. I've worked in multiple areas of a software lifecycle, Quality Assurance, Java, Javascript Backend/Frontend, ...

What is web accessibility?Web accessibility involves a series of resources that make it possible for everyone to browse, understand and interact on the Internet, regardless of their difficulties...

First published on js.dev https://thejs.dev/jmitchell/managing-your-reactjs-application-state-with-rxjs-2hqDo we need state management libraries?Managing application state is one of the hardest parts...

Hey there! While working with the database, I came to know how important it is to use index on a table which holds a large number of records. In this article, I will be explaining what difference does...

Photo byEric KrullonUnsplash.Parsing and processing documents can provide a lot of value for almost every department in a company. This is one of the many use cases where natural language processing (...

I'm not a Tailwind shill. I'm a Guo Lai Ren - someone who has changed their mind on it recently and am a happy user despite acknowledged tradeoffs. "Crossover people" can often be more persuasive to s...

Recently I finished my favorite side project by now.It is a Recursion Tree Visualizer that helps programmers understand recursion. You input any recursive function using javascript code and visualize ...

Hi, Im a Junior Software DeveloperRecently, one of our Pathway Directors (like a career coach) at Tech Elevator told us to start referring to ourselves as Junior Software Developers. Yikes As so...

Create a Responsive Website with a one CSS property. Lets see how it's done. Consider this template for example without apply css property Using The clamp() CSS function we can create a responsive we...

the one who does not have a memory, creates one of paper Gabriel Garca Marquez. Why do we need to use memo on React.js components?First of all, we need to review how React works, every time that ...

I initially wrote this as lessons for beginners and junior developers on Reddit and it blew up with over 50 awards. So I've decided to upgrade parts of it based on people's reactions.Some of these are...

Currently, I am starting my journey to expand my knowledge in MongoDB, and I have decided to create this series here and share all the knowledge that I get, with the community.Let's Begin...Table of C...

Throughout Hacktoberfest (October) people are encouraged to contribute to open-source to secure a t-shirt along with other swag. I have long been a fan of Hacktoberfest as some of my initial contribut...

This article is a continuation of Part I, where we added RHF to our react-native app. Please make sure you've read the first part for some context.We'll now see how to pre-fill our fields with data fe...

In this blog post, we shall take a look at vue-nodegui, a newly-released JS library to create cross-platform native desktop applications using VueJS repo link: https://github.com/nodegui/vue-nodeguido...

In this post we will showcase the three Kor UI themes inspired in well-known websites or web apps. We have chosen Twitch, GitHub and Spotify as references because of their harmonious base colors, rich...

Earlier this week I posted a couple of tweets regarding my new camera and lighting setup! Many people were interested in what technologies I use to record online courses and podcasts so Im here today ...

svelte-dnd-action has gone a long way since its inception. It has a rich set of features and is stable and robust. Accessibly was the last big missing puzzle piece and I couldn't consider the library ...

Hello there,It is always so rewarding when you achieve something after long research. And this is one such instance as I had to at least read 40+ blogs to finally set up a fully running Mailing servic...

Who doesn't like Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head!Today we will be recreating the iconic Mr. Potato Head in JavaScript.Meaning we will have all his parts, which we can drag on his body.The result of today's a...

If you've been following this series, the post about Ownership probably gave you the impression that Rust is a no-brainer and C++ should never be used in production. Smart pointers may change your min...

Tailwind recently released an experimental setting that enables dark mode styles. It allows you to add a prefix to specific classes to only enable the styles when dark mode is enabled. It's currently ...

Luc Constantin @accolades_dev I started my web developer journey with fear and insecurity a bit more than year ago! ...

Lately I've spent this past summer aimlessly flipping through PDFs of guides on programming and exploitation as well as diving into (what is probably my 5th time) CS50 to revisit the basics and learn ...

First published on js.dev https://thejs.dev/jmitchell/how-to-get-started-writing-unit-tests-for-react-with-enzyme-and-jest-mfwTesting in React can often be a challenge for developers. There are plent...

The Raspberry Pi is a series of very affordable credit card-sized single-board computers developed in the United Kingdom.As it is described in this awesome GitHub repo, the sky is the limit when it co...

It's not a surprise that images are one of the heaviest part of a website when it comes to loading. One of the best things you can do to optimise the loading of your website is to lazy load as many im...

Knowing Javascript inside and out or all the programming languages in the world wont be enough to help you land a great job that pays incredibly well or secure those amazing opportunities that are har...

You have either played league of legends before, or you know at least one person who did: that's a fact. The game has become a fever over the last few years, and until last year I used to be a regular...

You can hate me for this but I am not an Avengers Series fan and I am not going to introduce you to the Thanos we meet there Which Thanos are we going to talk about then? And do you really need to kno...

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 house.....

C/C++ is the mother of many popular programming languages out there today, all the fancy programming languages we use today like Python, JavaScript are built using C/C++. For example, the standard pyt...

For the past seven years, @DigitalOcean has hosted Hacktoberfest: a community-wide celebration of open source. To participate, you sign up and make at least four valid pull requests to open source pro...

In honor of Hacktoberfest, the Forem team is actively looking for open source contributors to help improve our projects! The goal? To expand and improve Forem for the entire community while helping co...

Watch this episode on-demand (originally livestreamed Thursday 1st October on Microsoft Learn TV):We're only just starting to understand the true potential of technology at the intersection of A...

Hey, are you the one who's keen on discovering new possibilities with Hooke's Law? Remember the following image which tells us how elasticity works?Science nerds, just don't go too deep into this...We...

It's that time of the week again. So wonderful devs, what did you learn this week? It could be programming tips, career advice etc.Feel free to comment with what you learnt and/or reference your TIL p...

API Gateways are becoming increasingly popular with the microservice architecture. Recently, google announced its own api-gateway. The time is ripe to take a look at why microservice architecture need...

REPLisp: Another New Language!? Pavitra Golchha Nov 25 '18 1 min read #repl #lisp #programminglanguage #interpreter It...

In this article, we will looking into some of the Nuxt essential and how we can use them in our application. Its advisable to understand the basic of Vuejs before moving into Nuxt js. Before we start ...

Hello Coders,This article presents a simple seed project coded in Flask on top of a modern Bootstrap 5 Template - Volt Dashboard by Themesberg. The project has some nice features that might help deve...

Whenever we are designing secure systems that needs authentication for API access, you must consider how your applications and users should authenticate themselves.In this article, well be discussing ...

Increase your value to employers by learning these top tools for developing web apps in React.Did you know most rsums submitted for jobs get rejected with just a single glance? Thats a daunting ...

There's been a lot of confusion around what is debouncing and throttling, where to use it, and how it exactly works.We are going to demystify all of the above in the simplest possible way through this...

As the years in the calendar add up, we see a growing number of people pouring their ideas into web pages. The people we mean may or may not be familiar with the technicalities of web designing and pu...

The DevDiscuss Podcast begins with an interview and ends with commentary from listeners and we like to feature the actual voices from our community! This week's prompt: What do you want to know ...

Big and extensive ReactJS application should have a well planned and organized project structure.I will show you how I built a Best Scalable Architecture for ReactJS Applications. First, have a look a...

After I released my first eBook I was invited on a bunch of podcasts to talk about it. After being on so many back-to-back, I started to notice some patterns that I wanted to change to make a better c...

I'm trying to form a mental model of something that is never truly explained in any post or tutorial.What is the purpose of the following files:.c.h.a.o.c now I assume I could write the whole program ...

Great things in business are never done by one person. Theyre done by a team of people.Searching for coding partners who would like to be partner for a tech startup to make a platform for the entrepre...

Studying / Side ProjectsBefore I talk about the actual steps of applying for a position, let me talk about studying and side projects. When I was looking for my first job, I often went online an...

Next.js is a React framework that ships with all the features you need for production. Next.js enables routing in your app by using the file-system-based routing. In this guide, I will show you how ro...

In this challenge, you'll be given a leaderboard in the form of an array, as well as a list of strings. Using the information in the list, sort the leaderboard. Examplearray:['John', 'Brian', 'J...

Hi guysMany of us struggle to focus nowadays, easily distracted by Social media and some sites on the internet which dramatically affecting our productivity.In this tutorial, you will learn and build ...

Would you rather spend your time using data to fuel innovative new product features or sit at your desk for hours trying to make sense of messy metrics? That should be a no-brainer (unless youre some ...

As beginners, we always seem to hear these terms: front-end and back-end. Initially, we are too afraid to ask what that means. We usually Google them. And that's when we know, front end deals with use...

Today having a website is a must-have for any business, whether it operates online or offline. Many organizations also develop a separate mobile app or mobile site version to attract customers, reach ...

The term a11y stands for accessibility. A11y is known as numeronym with 11 representing the count of letters between the first and the last letter of the word "accessibility". Some other examples of n...

In an ideal world where we reached 100% test coverage, our error handling was flawless,and all our failures were handled gracefully in a world where all our systems reached perfection,we wouldn't be ...

When I was learning to code, I wanted to make open-source contributions, but I had no idea where and how. Fast forward, I made my first open-source contributions to DEV, and I want to share the Git wo...

Today I want to show you a cool Vapid CMS.Often I need to build a simple website that has a dashboard where users can edit or add new pages/posts etc. For log time I use WordPress as my go-to CMS for ...

Factory pattern is a commonly used creational design pattern. It is normally used when the user is expected to choose between multiple options.Let's take an example to understand. Pet storeLet's ...

In this article, we will see how to use debouncing to improve the performance of search functionality in the application.If we're making an API call to the server for every character typed in the inpu...

Landing on a default, un-styled page not found with no further info and links can be really annoying. A creative and clever error page goes a long way in turning your visitors frown into a smile. Her...

IntroductionAccording to a survey, 70% of software engineers prefer a Dark theme IDE over the light theme. You will always a lot of dark theme in the popular theme section of any IDE. So why? De...

This article was originally published on my blog here.I recently understood the importance of having a good online presence and how it can change your life by providing you with lot of opportunities y...

The Fallacy of Composition happens when you assume something that is true for one person, is also true for the entire population. A trivial example looks like this: If someone stands up out of their s...

IntroductionBig value in using AWS Lambda comes from its interplay with other AWS services. To achieve that, however, it's important to understand the role AWS IAM plays in both allowing and sec...

Recently I've been trying multiple different JavaScript frameworks, ranging from React to Angular. But the one which has stood out the most to me and has truly made me fall in love with it recently is...

Dealing with messy merge conflicts can be a bit like navigating heavy traffic. With a bit of patience, forward-thinking, and sometimes a pal, you can resolve any conflict you're faced with. Take a dee...

So recently I switched my personal website away from Nginx to Caddy. I've been planning this for quite a while as I wanted to give it a try, as I've heard a lot about it and it's perks. So in this pos...

Please Visit Me on GitHub: https://github.com/jlonetreeCheck out My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-lonetree-52726554/ IntroductionScoobs and the gang want to give you, the dev, some t...

An Evolutionary Database System for Modern HardwareSirixDB is an evolutionary, accumulate-only database system. Each new commit stores more data in a new snapshot, which shares common data with...

This post is part of a series where I try to dissect computers in just enough detail so you can understand the "magic" that goes on behind the curtains when you write a "hello world" program or open u...

Hey Githubers!Today, I will try to convert you to use GitLab as main repo support for your projects.I discover Gitlab about 6 months, and the first thing I've find very cool, its the subproject suppor...

Today I wanted to give Visual Studio Code a try for the first time. Even though I still haven't found my way around it, I discovered an extension that could really be a game-changer for my workflow! ...

I was a freelance web developer for more than 1 year.During that time I work on multiple WordPress|Express.js projects with clients from different countries. but freelancing It did not suit me and It ...

In this week's episode of DevDiscuss, the weather report is cloudy with a guarantee of serverless! Serverless is a term that's been all abuzz for a few years now, and as @ben pointed out in this episo...

Cover photo by erica steeves on UnsplashGetting into a new home could be excited!You've scoped out the location, you've dreamed about all the experience you'll be having there and you're excited to sh...

Here's a neat little trick:You can use the <details> and <summary> HTML tags to create a simple accordion/collapsible UI.The only problem here is that it looks rather plain and uninteresti...

With Python, you can merge or combine Excel workbooks if you have multiple workbooks to analyze or anything similar.It can be painful to manually retrieve the data. You would have to open every single...

Another monthly challenge will start on 1 October 2020. This challenge starts tomorrow and ends on 30 October 2020. This challenge will help you to completely immerse yourself in React and to take you...

Angular is one of the elite JavaScript framework with more than 60,000 GitHub stars. Developed by Google and based on TypeScript, Angular is capable of delivering great web applications with high web ...

Over the years I've been using Python less and less. This has become more and more apparent as my GitHub and other websites I store code on have little to no Python on them anymore. PerformanceD...

Hi everyone!A couple days ago I made a post saying that I was dropping my side-project. I wanted to open more paths for the future. One of the goals I wanted to accomplish was to learn ReactJS.Over th...

I have been a developer in my current company for 6yrs. and during my stay here I've learned a lot not just in web development but also in life. I enjoyed working with wonderful and amazing people/tea...