How I Became A Senior JS Developer with Personal Projects

An inspiring tale. “One of the best decisions in my developer career was to go beyond just using tools, I decided to create them.” - http://amp.gs/XwwQ

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Creating an Angular Library and Publishing on npm

Have a TS module that you think others could benefit from? Open source it with the help of npm and this quick tutorial. - http://amp.gs/XFSA

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Learn How to Create a Stock Trading Bot

A 25 minute screencast covering the basics of automating financial trading from Node. Note/warning: Always take care with anything involving real money as you could lose it(!) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvzTHRX-AT4

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The Thing With Leading in CSS

Matthias Ott outlines the challenges of vertical spacing in CSS. - http://amp.gs/XL4O

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The React + GraphQL 2020 Crash Course

Given the ever-increasing pervasiveness of the React/GraphQL combination, there can never be enough ways of learning the necessary skills for working with them. - http://amp.gs/XL5d

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How to Make a Beautiful Bar Chart With The Most Powerful Visualization…

Let’s make a visualization you won’t be ashamed to show. - http://amp.gs/XWvk

#d3js

An Open Letter to the Gatsby Open Source Community

One of the founders of GatsbyJS offers a suprisingly candid response to community concerns about how Gatsby contractors (and employees) have been treated in the past, as well as the natural friction between an open source project and its associated company. Kyle Matthews also offers some thoughts regarding the future of their open source efforts. - http://amp.gs/XWQE

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How To Scrape a Website Using Node & Puppeteer

A through walkthrough of building a web scraping app using both Node and Puppeteer. As always, make sure you do this in an ethical and good-mannered way. -
http://amp.gs/Xa79

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How to Simplify SVG Code Using Basic Shapes

Mariana Beldi goes through different examples that explore the code of commonly used icons and explains how we can redraw them using some of the simple SVG shapes. - http://amp.gs/XaHe

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React Native FAQ 2020

Answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about React Native in 2020. - http://amp.gs/XoEP

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Metaprogramming with Proxies

Dr. Axel, the author of Deep JavaScript, keeps releasing extra chapters of his book for free online, and this one goes as deep into the topic of object proxies as you could ever hope. Do you need to know all of this? No. Am I glad the knowledge exists if I ever need to know? Yes! - http://amp.gs/XMnB

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Six Angular Security Best Practices - http://amp.gs/X5zK

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Vue.js Functional Components

Another article by Frederik Dietz, this time about functional components. A great technique to know, though keep in mind that the template-first approach to functional components will be obsolete in Vue 3.0. You might want to focus on learning how to use functional components with JSX though! - http://amp.gs/XQTk

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Scaling Accessibility With a Design System

Geri Reid shares a case study about her experience of learning how to design accessible web components, then scale their impact through a design system. - http://amp.gs/XQQ1

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Animating List Reordering with React Hooks

There seems to be no end to the uses for React Hooks. Starting with an Instagram Story-inspired bubble component, this article describes how Hooks are used to smoothly swap the bubble elements in a visually pleasing way. It may inspire your own similar efforts. - http://amp.gs/XcWU

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Build a Confirmation Modal in React with State Machines

React confirmation modals can be tricky, with useEffect and keeping track of shown/hidden, loading/not, and errors. State machines make it somewhat easier. - http://amp.gs/X6oJ

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Docker Best Practices with Node.js

Patterns and practices with code examples on the ‘dockerizing’ of Node apps. It covers the basics but goes all the way to advanced decisions like how much and where to limit the container’s memory, using a process manager or having Node itself as the root process and more. - http://amp.gs/Xb0i

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Lazy Load Images in Angular with Two Lines of Code

Image lazy loading defers the loading of an image that isn’t currently visible in the viewport. Such an image will be loaded only when the user scrolls and the image becomes visible. Using this technique, we can gain better performance and load time. - http://amp.gs/LIDA

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11 Micro Frontends Frameworks You Should Know

Discover the best libraries and tools to build micro frontends. - http://amp.gs/LjJM

Records and Tuples for React

A look at a proposal currently progressing smoothly through TC39 and how records and tuples may eventually prove interesting for use with React. - http://amp.gs/L8Rn

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