Articles by TutsPlus - Code from November 2018

We can hardly imagine modern web development without the help of Command Line Interface (CLI) tools. They tremendously facilitate and speed up the development workflow by reducing the amount of repeti...

Creating your own iOS app may seem intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be. Today, there are a plethora of courses available at Envato Tuts+ that can help you through every step of app development.&...

What You'll Be CreatingContinuing our series on Firebase, in this post we'll take a look at Firebase Cloud Messaging—or FCM for short—Google’s low-latency message and notification orchestrati...

Now is an exciting time for WordPress developers with the official release of version 5.0 just around the corner. This will mark the debut of the brand new editor: code-named Gutenberg. If you've have...

Building a streamlined navigation panel for your website is the logical next step after creating your content. Beautiful and functional—these are the gold standards when it comes to your navigation ...

Firebase ML Kit, a collection of local and cloud-based APIs for adding machine learning capabilities to mobile apps, has recently been enhanced to support face contour detection. Thanks to this powerf...

In this article, we're going to explore how you could use a MySQL database to perform CRUD (create, read, update, and delete) operations with PHP. If you want to get your hands dirty with database con...

Adding the date and time to the WordPress Loop seems like a simple enough task, right?Well, yes. It can be a case of coding a simple template tag and letting WordPress do the work for you. But sometim...

JavaScript form validation is now a lot easier than it used to be, thanks to HTML5 and the Constraint Validation API. Learn how it works in our new short course, Practice JavaScript and Learn: Form Va...

What You'll Be CreatingLearning WordPress development isn't just about learning to code PHP.You'll also need some HTML and CSS skills if the sites, themes and/or plugins you create are going to work w...

You can build a beautiful WordPress site, but if you don’t optimize your site for search engine rankings, there is a good chance that very few people will see it. Google and other search engines use...

Let me begin this post by saying that almost no event is truly random. Even the outcome of a classic coin toss could in theory be predicted if we knew the effect of every factor involved, like air fri...

Every mobile app developer needs a go-to source for beautiful, professionally designed graphics they can use when constructing their apps. Whether you're looking for mobile UI kits, app icons, mobile ...

The RecyclerView widget is an integral part of most Android applications today. Ever since it was added to the Android support library in late 2014, it has eclipsed the ListView widget as the most p...

In this tutorial, we'll explore reactive and template driven-forms in Angular. You'll see how to create each kind and how to perform validation in Angular 6.Reactive and Template-Driven FormsWhat Are...

The Loop is at the core of WordPress's post rendering engine. If you want to customize the way posts are displayed in your WordPress theme, you'll need to come to terms with The Loop.In our new course...

If you are looking for a secure serverless platform that's both feature rich and cost effective, you may want to give MongoDB Stitch a try. In addition to offering handy server-side features such as f...

With MongoDB Atlas, all it takes is a few clicks in the browser to get your own MongoDB cluster up and running in the cloud. By using it, you can build Android and iOS apps that can serve millions of ...

If you are looking for a secure serverless platform that's both feature rich and cost effective, you may want to give MongoDB Stitch a try. In addition to offering handy server-side features such as f...

A constant challenge faced by front-end developers is the performance of our applications. How can we deliver a robust and full-featured application to our users without forcing them to wait an eterni...

Transitions and animations are an important design pattern whose aim is to improve the user experience (UX) by making the user interface (UI) more natural and intuitive. Most people think that the pu...

In this tutorial, you'll learn several important functions in PHP which are sufficient for all your basic file reading and writing needs. You'll learn how to read a file, write to a file, write to a t...

Today, it’s pretty common for mobile apps to exchange data with remote servers, using web Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).Whether it’s checking for new emails using the Gmail API, searc...

What You'll Be CreatingThe second update release to Swift of 2018, Swift 4.2 introduces some great improvements to the language. Read this post to learn how they can help you write even better code.In...

Do you want to take your WordPress skills to the next level and learn to create your own themes and plugins? Well, you’ve come to the right place. I’ve compiled 11 of the best WordPress coding cou...

We live in an age of increasing amounts of data and decreasing attention spans. The solution to this conundrum is data visualization: creating elegant charts to help people interpret data quickly and ...

Working with numbers in PHP seems to be a trivial concept but it can be quite confusing. It looks easy at first because PHP provides automatic type conversion. For example, you can assign an integer v...

Working with numbers in PHP seems to be a trivial concept, but it can be quite confusing. It looks easy at first because PHP provides automatic type conversion. For example, you can assign an integer ...

When a web client uploads a file to a server, it is generally submitted through a form and encoded as multipart/form-data. Multer is middleware for Express and Node.js that makes it easy to handle t...

In this post, you'll learn how to use exception handling in PHP. As of PHP 5, we can use try catch blocks for error handling—this is a better way to handle exceptions and control the flow of your ap...

For years now, MongoDB has been the go-to NoSQL database for both individuals and enterprises building large-scale applications. It's open source, easily scalable, and provides high availability. It a...

What You'll Be CreatingIf you already know the basics of JavaScript and want to take your work to the next level, our latest course is perfect for you. In Practice JavaScript and Learn: AJAX, you'll p...

WooCommerce provides a powerful platform for your online store. With business happening on a global scale, day-to-day tasks like pricing, shipping, and invoicing can get complicated. Luckily, there ar...

What You'll Be CreatingPeople like pictures. They like looking at them, they like clicking on them. So it makes sense to use them in the navigation for your site.You may already use featured images in...

Mobile users have come to expect the UI consistency and performance that can only come from native apps. However, building a feature-rich iOS app with an elegant user interface can be challenging. For...