How to Work with Forms in React is an excerpt from React Quickly, a hands-on book by Azat Mardan for anyone who wants to learn React.js fast. This article covers how to capture text input and input via other form elements like input, textarea, and option. Working with them is paramount to web development, because they ...
Do you have more than two years’ development experience? Are your advanced CSS skills aided with Sass and Autoprefixer? Is your JavaScript knowledge reasonable and you’re happy using Gulp, npm, and jQuery? If so, you’re a typical developer, according to Ashley Nolan’s Front-End Tooling Survey. ...
In this article, Kushagra Gaur introduces Web Maker, a browser extension he created for front-end developers who want a blazing-fast, offline web playground. If you’re a front-end developer like me, you’ve probably tried one or more of the code playgrounds out there like CodePen, JSBin, JSFiddle etc. They&...
This article was originally published at jessenovotny.com. When I started programming my very first Angular single page application (SPA), I noticed the resources for setup and integration with Devise to be thin or fragmented. The most useful guide I found was actually just a segment of a general Angular with Rails wa...
Starting a new React project now days is not as simple as we’d like it to be. Instead of instantly diving into the code and bringing your application to life, you have to spend time configuring the right build tools to set up a local development environment, unit testing, and a production build. But there are pro...
When Heroku announced their (quite reasonable) new limits for free apps, I realized that I would have to find another source of hosting for all the small, low-traffic projects that I currently have running on Heroku. Way back in the day, Heroku was totally free for apps that only required one dyno, but after years of a...
Cocycles is a new code search service that enables code to be found by functionality. In this article, Cocycles team member Jonathan explains the idea behind this approach to code searching.We’re all familiar with it: that moment when you’re forced to abandon your code editor, interrupt your workflow and ...
D3.js is a powerful data visualization library that allows you to create amazing charts — such as bubble charts, line and bar charts — with just a few lines of code. With a beginner’s understanding of JavaScript, you can convert your array or object into a colorful display. However, every single begin...
How can you get a legacy codebase under control and bring it to a new level of maturity? In this post, Jeroen summarizes the lessons learned from years of working on a large legacy web application. This article was originally published by intracto.Legacy Code Can Be Saved by Refactoring I have good news for you! Squi...
The Portable Document Format has been one the major innovations in the fields of desktop publishing and office automations. It’s widely used in web publishing too, but unfortunately very often in wrong ways – like using it to replace contents that should have been built with HTML. This causes many problems...
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