Recently, I was toying with the idea of a 3d button which moves as the user moves their mouse around it. …
If you are familiar with JavaScript, or perhaps any other programming language, you may have run into an issue like this:
console.log(0.1 * 0.2)
// Returns 0.020000000000000004
// Should return 0.02Despite 0.1 * 0.2 being equal to 0.02, we somehow get this long number with a random digit at…
A lot of the work we do with JavaScript involves us sending information back and forth from servers. You are probably familiar with the concept of APIs, which send data to servers or websites in a particular format, to get a specific response back.
These are known as REST APIs…
Building web applications is something a whole generation of developers have grown up with. Building phone applications in android and iOS, however, usually requires knowledge of Swift or Kotlin, which may not be your first language in programming.
Having all your code work on all devices, in the same repo…
Web components will be familiar to you if you have worked at all with React. They are custom, replicable pieces of HTML, which can be referred to elsewhere in the code.
Web components are their own HTML specification, so you may be surprised they can be used in a standalone…
GraphQL is a language built primarily for use with APIs. It interacts with JavaScript and other languages quite easily. In this article, let’s take a look at the basics around how to combine Express, MongoDB, and GraphQL into a basic API for getting titles and dates from a database.
GraphQL…
It’s often useful to get a list of the most popular pages on your website or app, either to feed into analytics, or to build UI elements which show users what your most popular content is. …
CSS does a lot with its selectors, but there’s still a lot more it could do to make things easier for developers. In this guide we’ll be looking at some of the main developments coming from the CSS Selectors Specification 4, and how it might make your development life easier.
I recently started a new blog with NodeJS where I was quickly faced with the conundrum of how to notify users when a new article is published. Most importantly, I wanted to do all of this without depending on a third party service. …
