Tag: Web development
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Understanding the difference between grid-template and grid-auto
Posted on October 23, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Dawid Kunicki article about working with Flutter and getting out first app written in it. Taken from Android developer perspective. Flutter is a new technology that is clearly gaining more and more popularity among mobile developers.
Tags web-development ux css browsers
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Comparison between Angular and React and their core languages
Posted on October 18, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length long
Dler Ari brings you an article, in which he will compare two of the most popular web technologies in 2018, and also address their history, key differences, core languages used (TypeScript and JavaScript) and so forth.
Tags angular javascript frameworks web-development
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CSS debugging and optimization: browser-based developer tools
Posted on October 9, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Tiffany Brown article in which she delves into the browser-based developer tools for Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge. This article is very helpful for anybody on road to become a CSS master.
Tags css frontend nodejs web-development
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Building a scalable promise based Node.js library
Posted on September 27, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Ross Bulat wrote a tutorial about building a scalable Node.js library based on Promises. In it he explains how to tackle large async / await Promise based libraries.
Tags javascript nodejs software web-development
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Client side performance monitoring with InfluxDB
Posted on September 23, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Interesting reading from Mike Bell about efficient applications monitoring in Agile environment with daily deploys of hundreds of code changes to the web application for customer-facing websites. Each change has the potential to impact performance for better or worse. They carefully monitor KPIs such as page load times to catch regressions, identify opportunities for speedups, and to verify that improvements work in the real world.
Tags monitoring web-development containers microservices
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Six layout myths busted
Posted on September 20, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
An older article encapsulating thoughts by Jen Simmons on topic of six layout myth. Every website reaches for an identical 12-column symmetrical grid. Every site uses the same shapes and patterns over and over. And we are totally bored.
Tags ux browsers app-development web-development frameworks
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Django REST with React tutorial
Posted on September 17, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Valentino Gagliardi published on his blog tutorial how to do REST with Django framework 2 and React. If you need quick API prototype quickly and is build for development speed.
Tags python apis javascript web-development frameworks
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Build a Hello World API with Scala and Akka HTTP
Posted on August 29, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Miguel Lopez short and sweet tutorial about building a Hello World web application with Akka. Akka is a popular actor-based toolkit for building concurrent and distributed applications in the JVM. These applications mostly use Scala or Java.
Tags devops akka scala functional-programming web-development apis
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REST API design -- resource modeling
Posted on August 26, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In this older article by Prakash Subramaniam from ThoughtWorks looks at the REST API design best practices. The key abstraction of information in REST is a resource. A resource is a conceptual mapping to a set of entities, not the entity that corresponds to the mapping at any particular point in time.
Tags restful apis web-development json
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Solr from the field -- Lessons learned while maintaining over 30 billion documents
Posted on August 14, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
An article published by Alex Puschinsky about WalkMe Insights experience with SOLR and processing of vast amount of data. They provide real-time search and analytics capabilities. To achieve this, they have chosen Apache Solr as the core of our WalkMe Insights search functionality.
Tags apache search web-development
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8 best practices for perfect CSS documentation
Posted on July 29, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Adriana De La Cuadra article about best pracices for CSS documentation. In the world of CSS, documentation is underused. Since documentation is not visible to the end user, its value is often overlooked by clients.
Tags css frontend web-development miscellaneous
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Setting up a reverse-proxy with NGINX and docker-compose
Posted on July 28, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Dominik Weber tutorial how to set up reverse-proxy with NGINX, which can then handle server-related aspects, like SSL and caching, completely transparent to the application behind it. It is good practice in general to not make internal services public-facing that don't have to be.
Tags nginx how-to performance web-development performance