Almost all JavaScript projects that can be found out in the wild interact with a web service or API and either use it for authentications or getting user-related data. In this article, Kelvin Omereshone introduces Mirage JS, an API mocking library that lets you build, test and share a complete working JavaScript application without having to rely on any backend API or services. You’ll also learn how to set up Mirage JS with the progressive front-end framework, Vue.js.
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In this article, Yusuff Faruq will show you how to use React’s Context API which allows you to manage global application states in your React apps without resorting to props drilling. In the process you will learn what the Context API is and the problem it solves, how to create Context and consuming it in both functional and class-based components, and when to use the Context API. Let’s start!
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A walkthrough of creating an Angular 8 web application and a QR Code generator app completely based on Angular while hosted on Netlify. In this article, Shubham will take you into a walkthrough of creating an Angular 8 web application using the official Angular Material Design library. We will be creating a QR Code generator web application completely based on Angular while hosted on Netlify.
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oEmbed is a very elegant solution to a very specific problem. Many sites have hosted media and content that can be shared elsewhere by the use of some HTML embed code. What happens if you just have the URL of the item and need to find an embeddable version of the media without human intervention? That is where oEmbed comes in. In this article, Drew McLellan will tell you everything about it!
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A basic introduction to the backend web application development process with Express — discussing bleeding edge ES6+ JavaScript features, the Factory Design Pattern, MongoDB CRUD Operations, servers and ports, and the future with enterprise n-tier architectural patterns for TypeScript projects.
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The W3C celebrated its 25th anniversary on the 1st of October 2019. In this article, Rachel Andrew explains how the W3C works and shares her “Web Story” to explain why the Web Standards process is so vitally important for everyone to have an open web platform where they can share their stories and build awesome things for the web together.
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DOM changes can be frequent, and as a result, there are instances where your app might need to respond to a specific change to the DOM. Monitoring for changes to the DOM is sometimes needed in complex web apps and frameworks. By means of explanations along with interactive demos, Louis Lazaris will show you how you can use the MutationObserver API to make observing for DOM changes relatively easy.
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Cloudflare Workers lets devs build and extend the capabilities of serverless sites.There is nothing mystical or mysterious about serverless: its end result is simply a website or application. And it is also becoming increasingly popular due to the increasing availability of services offered by cloud providers, simple-yet-powerful template-based static site generators and convenient ways to feed data into the process. In this article, Leonardo Losoviz will show you how Cloudflare Workers works and when it makes sense to add it to our technology stack.
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Voice Assistants are on their way into people’s homes, wrists, and pockets. That means that some of our content will be spoken out loud with the help of digital speech synthesis. The web isn’t just passive text on a screen anymore. Web editors and UX designers have to get accustomed to making content and services that should be spoken out loud. In this tutorial, Knut Malvær will show you how to make a What You Get Is What You Hear (WYGIWYH) editor for speech synthesis using Sanity.io’s editor for Portable Text.
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With Spotify, machine learning and social media has gone musical. With their app, your friends can check out what you’re jamming to. What if the rest of the Internet could experience your algo-rhythm, too? In this article, Cher Scarlett will show you how to compose your own application to share what you’re listening to on Spotify using Vue.js and Nuxt. This tutorial is moderately complex, and it requires knowledge of HTML, CSS, Javascript (ES6), but is broken down into very consumable sections.
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