Articles by TutsPlus - Code from January 2017

It's never been a better time to get started with ASP.NET. Not only has the ASP.NET team redesigned the framework from the ground up, but they've made it completely open source and cross-platform. It'...

Clearance is a simple authentication system with email and password built by the team at Thoughtbot. It has opinionated defaults but is intended to be easy to override. The system is actively maintain...

Statistical analysis of data helps us make sense of the information as a whole. This has applications in a lot of fields like biostatistics and business analytics. Instead of going through individual...

What You'll Be CreatingThis tutorial is part of the Building Your Startup With PHP series on Envato Tuts+. In this series, I'm guiding you through launching a startup from concept to reality using ...

In the first article of Swift from Scratch, you learned about Xcode playgrounds and wrote your first lines of Swift. In this article, we'll start learning the fundamentals of the Swift programming l...

Why always expect users to tap buttons on their touchscreens? By using some of the hardware sensors available on mid-range Android phones today, you can create apps that offer far more engaging user e...

If, else, and logical operators are probably the most common similarity between the popular languages, and unsurprisingly Elixir has them, too. The if, case, and cond macros are provided for giving us...

In recent times we've been seeing a surge in the popularity and technical capability of virtual reality. Typically, when we think VR we think gaming and dedicated desktop software. However this is no...

Illuminate is Laravel’s database engine minus Laravel. It comes bundled with the Eloquent ORM in Laravel. If you would like to build your PHP apps with ORMs and prefer not to use Laravel, this tutor...

What You'll Be CreatingIntroductionSiri has been a core feature of iOS since it was introduced back in 2011. Now, iOS 10 brings new features to allow developers to interact with Siri. In particular, t...

What You'll Be CreatingIf you are building an Angular 2 app, there will come a time when you need external data. The way to make this happen is through the HTTP service. HTTP allows you to make reques...

What You'll Be CreatingSadly, Parse.com is shutting down on 28 January 2017. In the previous series, I walked you through the entire journey of building a blog system from scratch. But everything was ...

Many smartphone users record video vertically, holding the phone in front of themselves, up and down. It's not hard to see why: this is the natural way to hold a small, chocolate-bar-shaped object. Ho...

What You'll Be CreatingThis tutorial is part of the Building Your Startup With PHP series on Envato Tuts+. In this series, I'm guiding you through launching a startup from concept to reality using ...

In 2014, Apple took the developer community by surprise with the introduction of Swift, a brand new programming language. Swift has come a long way, and it is hard to believe that the language is cele...

WordPress natively incorporates user profiles and access levels. It only makes sense that it can be easily used for membership sites, directories, and more. This is one of the reasons why those buildi...

About Account Kit What Is Passwordless Authentication?Passwordless authentication skips using a password for registration or login. Instead, user authentication is confirmed either with a one-time SM...

Randomness is all around us. When you flip a coin or roll a die, you can never be sure of the final outcome. This unpredictability has a lot of applications like determining the winners of a lucky dra...

Elixir is built on Erlang, and in both Erlang and Elixir a function is not just identified by its name, but by its name and arity.  Remember: Everything in Elixir is an expression.To give you a clear...

WooCommerce is arguably the most popular way to sell products using WordPress. With WordPress powering roughly 25% of the Internet and WooCommerce powering roughly 39% of all online stores, it's a sa...

Reactive programming is a popular new programming paradigm that makes it easy to code apps and interfaces that respond to dynamically changing data. Now reactive programming has come to JavaScript tha...

In Android, there is a high probability of your app crashing even after you have manually and automatically tested it. This can be due to factors such as incompatibility with different API levels, scr...

If this is the first tutorial you're reading in this series, then I highly recommend catching up with what we've covered thus far.Essentially, you're coming in at the end of the show. At this point, w...

What You'll Be CreatingThis tutorial is part of the Building Your Startup With PHP series on Envato Tuts+. In this series, I'm guiding you through launching a startup from concept to reality using ...

For over a year, Google worked with the Project Brillo operating system (which was built on the lower levels of Android) for Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices, even going so far as to have le...

Even the most basic mathematical operations can sometimes give an erroneous result. This happens due to limitations in storing the exact value of some numbers. You can overcome these limitations by u...

Have you created something using a tutorial here on Envato Tuts+? Whether it's an illustration, an audio project or pretty much anything else, you can submit it to this month's Made With Envato contes...

Elixir has a wealth of data types available. The usual basic types integer, float, boolean, and string are here, but so are the atom / symbol, list, tuple, and anonymous functions. You'll learn all a...

Do you want to learn more about developing iOS apps with Swift? How about building web applications with Go, or functional programming in JavaScript? Our latest batch of eBooks will teach you all you ...

IntroductionIn this tutorial, I will be showing you how to easily implement push notifications in your iOS app using a cloud-based, third-party back-end service. We will start by looking at the requir...

In this super-quick video I’ll introduce you to Envato Market’s author ratings. Author ratings are important because they communicate the quality of your items, whilst serving as a metric of custo...

Designing a React Native app from scratch is often a cumbersome process—especially the design part, because you have to plan for both Android and iOS devices. Not only that, but you also have to mak...

In this tutorial, you'll learn about forms and events in React. We'll start by creating a simple React-based app and then add a form and some elements. Then we'll see how to add events to the form ele...

Firebase Realtime Database security rules are how you secure your data from unauthorised users and protect your data structure.  In this quick tip tutorial, I will explain how to configure your datab...

What You'll Be CreatingThis tutorial is part of the Building Your Startup With PHP series on Envato Tuts+. In this series, I'm guiding you through launching a startup from concept to reality using ...

In this three-part series, we’ve taken an in-depth look at Kotlin, a modern programming language for Android apps that runs in the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). While Kotlin is far from the only alte...

Almost every framework nowadays has built-in support of Composer, an awesome dependency management tool in PHP, and OpenCart is no exception. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use Composer to inte...

When writing programs in our day-to-day life, we usually come across situations where we need to use a little maths to get the task done. Like other programming languages, Python provides various oper...

What You'll Be CreatingIntroduction Since Siri was introduced back in 2011, iOS developers have been asking for the possibility to integrate third-party apps with it. With the release of iOS 10 dur...

Elixir is a fast, dynamic and scalable language which is fast becoming adopted by the startup crowd and established businesses alike for production applications. Pinterest, Brightcove, Discord, and C...

Want to start the New Year by getting up to date with all the latest changes in iOS 10? Our new short course, What's New in iOS 10, has you covered. In just 38 minutes, you'll get fully up to speed wi...

Augmented and virtual reality, while still relatively new, have quickly become popular for apps, including for gaming and education. Previously, I showed you how to install Cardboard using the Android...

So far we have seen how to use the basic data types and coding principles of the Erlang VM via the Elixir language. Now we will go full circle and create a working web application using the Phoenix We...

Angular 2 is a powerful and feature-complete framework that you can use to build the best web apps. Built with TypeScript in mind, Angular 2 takes advantage of futuristic language features such as dec...

Nowadays it is a common practice to rely heavily on APIs (application programming interfaces). Not only big services like Facebook and Twitter employ them—APIs are very popular due to the spread of ...

What You'll Be CreatingIf you're asking, "What's Yii?" check out Introduction to the Yii Framework, which reviews the benefits of Yii and includes an overview of Yii 2.0.IntroductionIn the Program...

Android users today no longer have to open a browser and perform a search to learn about things they stumble upon while using an app. They can instead use an assistant. If you own a device that runs A...

There was a time in internet history when you had to use Flash if you wanted to add some visual effects to your website beyond an animated GIF. Fast forward to today, and we find Flash dead and things...