Articles by TutsPlus - Code from February 2017

Gulp is a build system for JavaScript that makes it easy to automate repetitive tasks like linting, minification, and transcoding.In our new short course, Essential Gulp Tasks, you'll learn how to set...

What You'll Be CreatingFaker is an open-source library created by Francois Zaninotto that generates artificial filler data for your application and its testing needs.Faker can be used in a vanilla P...

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...

Introduction If you are familiar with the Android SDK, you probably know that using it to create a new game from scratch is no mean feat. Choosing the right game engine, supporting multiple screen siz...

What You'll Be CreatingIf you are looking for alternative approaches to Android application development, you should consider giving Google's Flutter, a framework based on the Dart programming language...

In the previous articles, you learned some of the basic concepts of the Swift programming language. If you've programmed before, I'm sure you saw a few similarities with other programming languages, s...

In this article, we're going to take look at Ionic 2, the newest version of the Ionic cross-platform mobile app framework. For starters, we'll recap what Ionic is and what it's used for. Then we're go...

In this screencast tutorial I’m going to show you how to work more efficiently with WordPress, specifically when developing locally. In order to follow along it’s recommended you have some experi...

Git has become the most widely used system for version control and sharing code. If you want to help build open-source software, or if you want to work on a professional team, understanding Git is a m...

What kind of WordPress widgets will you need in 2017?If you're like me, the only time you find yourself looking for a new WordPress plugin is when you need it for something specific. The problem with ...

There are many needs for a calendar on any website. The problem with many calendar programs is reusability. They often only work with one Content Management System (CMS). When you need to move to ano...

In the first part of this tutorial series, I covered the very basics of Cassandra and used CQLSH to communicate with the database system via shell. In this second part, I will cover in brief the major...

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 ...

Are you up to date with all the changes in the latest versions of PHP?In our new short course, What's New in PHP 7 and 7.1?, your instructor Jeremy McPeak will take you through each of the new languag...

In the previous article, you learned about variables, constants, and some of the common data types, such as integers, floats, and strings. In this article, we zoom in on collections. Swift's standard ...

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...

What You'll Be CreatingAs a prudent developer, you might be wary of creating hybrid applications that depend on Android's native APIs. A few years ago, I was too, what with Android having so many vers...

Do you want to develop apps for iOS devices?If so, these six courses will give you the solid foundation you need. With expert guidance from Envato Tuts+ instructors Derek Jensen and Markus Mühlberger...

In this tutorial, you'll learn about the Android Telephony and SMS API. You'll learn how to make a call from your app and how to monitor phone call events, as well as how to send and receive SMS. 1. H...

Do you want to learn JavaScript? We have plenty of JavaScript courses and tutorials here on Envato Tuts+, but sometimes it can be hard to know where to start.So we've put together a free JavaScript l...

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 ...

Reactive programming is a way of coding with asynchronous data streams that makes a lot of problems easier to solve. RxJS is a popular library for reactive programming that makes it easy to respond to...

React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces that has taken the web development world by storm. React is known for its blazing-fast performance and has spawned an ecosystem of thousands ...

What You'll Be CreatingReact has quickly become a popular framework for creating both client-side and server-side views. There was a higher barrier of entry with tooling along with some frustrati...

In software development, different types of errors can occur. They could be syntax errors, logical errors, or runtime errors.  Syntax errors most probably occur during the initial development phase a...

Apache Cassandra is one of the most popular open-source distributed database systems available. It was designed with the goal of handling large amounts of data stored in many servers distributed acros...

Android Things, the new platform from Google for creating Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices, is an easy way to get your feet wet with one of the key technologies of the future. In this tutori...

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

SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is an image format which defines vector-based graphics in XML format. In this tutorial, you'll have a look at how to get started with using Pygal, a Python SVG graph-plo...

What You'll Be CreatingIntroductionLast week, I wrote an introduction to scraping web pages to collect metadata, mentioning that it's not possible to scrape the New York Times site. The Times paywall...

What You'll Be CreatingHow your app looks is as important as how it works, and animation is an important part of modern user interfaces. Whether by changing the color of an element to indicate that it...

IntroductionApple introduced their CloudKit framework alongside iOS 8 in 2014. While its main purpose was to act as an online database for iOS applications, CloudKit also offers many other features, i...

What You'll Be CreatingStatic sites are popular for many reasons. Avoiding overkill solutions and keeping a project simple without databases, too many dependencies, or specific server-side configurati...

The most popular Android apps have something in common: they all provide a great user experience. In this post, I'll share some tips that will help your app stand out.Regardless of the kind of app you...

In this tutorial, you'll see how to get started with setting up and using a fake REST API server using json-server, which you can use while developing mobile or web applications. This tutorial assume...

What You'll Be CreatingIntroductionRecently I began building a community site on top of the Yii platform which I wrote about in Programming With Yii2: Building Community with Comments, Sharing and Vo...

What You'll Be CreatingWelcome. If you're new to the Amazon Appstore, check out our recent introductory guide, How to Submit Your App to the Amazon Appstore. In today's episode, I'll walk you through...

React is a JavaScript library built by Facebook for building user interfaces. If you are new to React, I would recommend reading one of our earlier tutorials on getting started with React. In this tu...