​​The HTML 5.2 spec introduced a dialog element that makes it easy to implement native modals and pop-ups. Modals are an important part of almost any non-trivial web app, so it’s promising to think that there’s finally a way to implement one without re-inventing the wheel each time. You can click the button below for an example modal created using the dialog element

5 min read

#HTML

​​Recording audio involves a series of steps:

1) Start recording the audio
2) While recording, store the audio data chunks
3) Stop recording the audio
4) Convert the audio data chunks to a single audio data blob
5) Create a URL for that single audio data blob
6) Play the audio

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#Audio #JavaScript

​​Detecting the location of your website’s users is useful for a variety of reasons.
You might, for instance, want to display different content, perhaps in different languages for people from different countries, or display targeted information to visitors from different locations.

3 min read

#JavaScript #API

​​Freelancing 101: how to start earning your side-income as a developer

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#Career

​​Awesome terminal tricks to level up as a developer

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#Terminal

​​To simplify shopping for razors we built a performant, visually-appealing, and secure site. Our architecture performs well across browsers and devices, emphasizes developer ergonomics and modern tools, and lets us continuously deploy with confidence. We think shopflamingo.com can be a model for how to architect other e-commerce sites.


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#JAMstack #Gatsby #eCommerce

​​In this article I am going to talk about two different ways of authentication: stateful and stateless authentication. If you have learnt about networking, you may already heard about stateful and stateless, but in this article I am going to give these two adjectives other meanings.

5 min read

#Auth #Security

​​Many developers, regardless of experience, frantically ask: "Which project should I do?"

3 min read

#Programming

​​Coding conventions are style guidelines for programming. They typically cover:
• Naming and declaration rules for variables and functions.
• Rules for the use of white space, indentation, and comments.
• Programming practices and principles

8 min read

#Programming

The best advice I received about securing my first job as a web developer was to attend meetups.

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#Programming

​​The best advice I received about securing my first job as a web developer was to attend meetups.

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#Programming

​​Becoming a full-stack developer is the goal of a lot of developers. Being able to create a complete software product, getting to understand how the whole system work and the very nice wage increase(Over £5,500) are all reasons people want to level up their skills and become a full-stack developer.

4 min read

#Fullstack #Serverless #NodeJS #Lambda

At the coding bootcamp where I teach, “How do I upload images with React?” is a question that comes up repeatedly. As with any programming problem there are a million ways to achieve this outcome with various tradeoffs.

6 min read

#React

​​When HTML5 introduced the <video> and <audio> tags, they made your media files genuinely accessible to the Internet. HTML5 videos are fast replacing Flash Player and other similar third-party media players. Historically, it’s been quite a cumbersome process to get media to play correctly. Often the <embed> and <object> tags would need to be used which would assign an extensive list of parameters to get the media playback working.

7 min read

#HTML #JavaScript

​​Here are 650 free online programming and computer science courses.

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#Tutorials

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As a developer, you want to be efficient with your time and automate where you can. Here are 15 VS Code extensions you should be taking advantage of today.

4 min read

#TextEditors

​​React is a very popular JavaScript library. With over 5.5 million weekly downloads, React is enjoying great popularity. But not a lot of React developers know how React works under the hood.

5 min read

#React

​​It was always complicated to flatten an array in #JavaScript. Not anymore! ES2019 introduced a new method that flattens arrays. And there’s a “depth” parameter, so you can pass in ANY levels of nesting. AMAZING 🤩

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#JavaScript