Front-end: Useful Online Tools for Front-end Developers

The internet is full of awesome tools that make our lives easier as front-end developers. In this post, I’ll give a quick review of 12 tools I use frequently in my dev work. - http://amp.gs/aaEV

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Best Practices with React Hooks

Both the strength and the weakness of Hooks is their flexibility. There are many ways to employ them but here are some opinionated suggestions as to the best way. - http://amp.gs/aoxr

#react

The Worst Part of Angular

How the framework fosters deception and undermines the basis of civilization - http://amp.gs/aMx5

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NPM Clients Aiming to Be Better Than The Original

For all of its pros, npm has several flaws that alternatives have tried to mitigate. - http://amp.gs/a5en

#nodejs

Vue 3 Is Out! Jump into Vue 3 Quickly in This New Course by Sarah Drasner

Learn fundamental concepts in Vue, such as directives, methods, and computed watchers. You’ll learn Vue’s reactivity system and the new Composition API in Vue 3. -
http://amp.gs/aQBy

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A Deep Dive Into CSS Grid minmax()

Ahmad Shadeed shares how CSS grid minmax() works, with a detailed visual explanation for auto-fit and auto-fill keywords. - http://amp.gs/acpu

#css

Solving Sudoku Puzzles with React

Although it would seem to defeat the purpose of doing a Sudoku (a popular form of number puzzle) in the first place, the methodology is an interesting and popular programming challenge which was kicked off by Peter Norvig’s classic Python essay of a decade ago. - http://amp.gs/a6pi

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Logic reusability in Angular applications

When you create an enterprise Angular application, chances are that you end up with many modules 📦 for different entities e.g. CarsModule, PlanesModule, ShipsModule etc. - http://amp.gs/a6ua

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19 things I stole from great developers

What great developers do day to day - http://amp.gs/abCg

#javascript

App Store & Google Play: Submission Checklist

David shares his checklist of the basics for submitting your app to both the App Store and Google Play. - http://amp.gs/abLC

#mobile

A Complete Guide to CSS Gradients

Geoff Graham created an in-depth guide to CSS Gradients. - http://amp.gs/oICO

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Upgrading to React 17 and Webpack 5 - http://amp.gs/oI3p

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The TRUE difference between [] and {{}} bindings in Angular

One of the parts of Angular that most developers think they understand, but many don’t, is the true nature of [] and {{}} bindings. - http://amp.gs/ojvI

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Apple Unveils M1, Its System-on-a-Chip for Mac Computers

Apple has unveiled its first ARM-based ‘Apple Silicon’ Macs (the Air, 13” Pro and Mini) built around a chip called the M1. Dev reactions have been mixed with a 16GB memory limit notable to those heavily using VMs or Docker. The perf and efficiency improvements seem good and many developers are sure to adopt these systems in due course. - http://amp.gs/o8Bs

#news #apple

Using GitHub Actions to Securely Publish npm Packages

One approach to using GitHub Actions to publish npm packages from repositories following the typical GitHub developer flow with pull requests, etc. - http://amp.gs/oTlW

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An Introduction to Data Visualization with ApexCharts

ApexCharts is an MIT-licensed interactive JavaScript charting library. - http://amp.gs/ozly

#react

Building Modern Native Addons for Node in 2020

N-API provides a stable API to develop native add-ons against and all LTS versions of Node now support N-API version 3 or higher, so if you haven’t explored the art of building native add-ons in a while, now’s a great time. - http://amp.gs/o1IR

#nodejs

Thinking Like a Front-end Developer

Ahmad Shadeed demonstrates an approach to implementing a layout in CSS. - http://amp.gs/o1cc

#css

Filtering, Sorting, and Searching in Arrays with Vue.js

Improve your user’s access to the relevant data - http://amp.gs/otza

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