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Chidi Orji wrote

Managing Long-Running Tasks In A React App With Web Workers

In this tutorial, Chidi Orji is going to show you how to use the Web Worker API to manage time-consuming and UI-blocking tasks in a JavaScript app by building a sample web app that leverages Web Workers. Finally, we’ll end the article by transferring everything to a React application. If you need more insights into this topic, Chidi has included a number of links in the “Further Resources” section to help you get up to speed. Read more…

Jonathan Kelley wrote

Get Up And Running With Craft CMS

Choosing what CMS to use in your next development project is a critical decision for any business, large or small. In this guide, Jonathan Kelley is going to run through the potential of Craft CMS, setting up a local environment and creating a basic cat blog with an API endpoint to accompany it. It’s a perfect jumping off point for anyone looking to expand from their current CMS system, or make the leap from Wordpress. Read more…

Kelvin Omereshone wrote

How To Automate API Testing With Postman

Postman allows you to manually test your APIs in both its desktop and web-based applications. However, it also has the ability for you to automate these tests by writing JavaScript assertions on your API endpoints. In this article, Kelvin Omereshone will learn how to write automated tests on web APIs with Postman. In order to follow along to this tutorial, you’ll need at least a fair amount of familiarity with Postman. Read more…

Ademola Adegbuyi wrote

Building A Component Library With React And Emotion

A component library helps to keep a design consistent across multiple projects. It ensures consistency because any changes made will propagate across the projects that make use of it. In this tutorial, Ademola Adegbuyi will show you how to build a component library, using Emotion in React to resolve inconsistencies. At the end of this piece, you should be able to create a component library that fits whatever use case you have in mind! Read more…

Timi Omoyeni wrote

How To Do More With Vue Router

Vue Router is the official router for Vue that is mostly used for creating multiple pages living on different routes (/home, /profile) in your application but has some features that some people do not know about. In this tutorial, Timi Omoyeni is going to show you some amazing features the Vue Router has and how we can make use of them in our app. You can find all the code used in this article on GitHub. If you are interested in doing more with the router, you’ll benefit from this tutorial. Read more…

Blessing Krofegha wrote

Understanding Client-Side GraphQl With Apollo-Client In React Apps

Ever tried interacting with a GraphQL server in a client-side application and felt like giving up even before getting anywhere? Ever declined an invitation to join a code base that requires working with GraphQL API because you had no idea? Ever felt like the only front-end engineer who hasn’t learned how to consume GraphQL APIs? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this tutorial is for you. We’ll be taking a closer look at a few basics of GraphQL and Apollo Client, as well as how to work with both of them. By the end, we’ll have built a pet shop app that uses Apollo Client. Then, you can go on to build your next project. Read more…

Rachel Andrew wrote

Crowdfunding Web Platform Features With Open Prioritization

In this article, Rachel Andrew takes a look at a new effort to crowdfund the costs of implementing browser features. She encourage developers to use, talk about, and raise implementation bugs with browsers to try to get features implemented, however, what if there was a more direct way to do so? What if web developers could get together and fund the development of these features? This article is based on an interview with Brian Kardell, Developer Advocate at Igalia. Read more…