15 Blogs Every Javascript Developer Should Follow in 2018
I've been following the most interesting JavaScript blogs quite for a while now (this is a part of my job running https://weekendjs.com/). There are many of them. More than you might [...]
The Hero’s Journey for UX Design and Product Adoption
What makes user experience (UX) design successful? Google it. Read books. Enroll in boot camps or formal educational programs. In the end, it all comes down to one word. Adoption. [...]
How to Build a Simple Chat App with React Native and Firebase
Nick is a mobile developer with wide experience in building iOS and Android applications at RubyGarage. He enjoys researching tech topics and sharing his knowledge with other developers. In mobile development, [...]
Manage Your JavaScript Canvas Elements
The browser JavaScript ecosystem moves fast. It's easy to become overwhelmed trying to keep up with new browser features and JavaScript application frameworks. Oftentimes, developers get burnt out by trying to [...]
Official Vue Projects You Probably Don’t Know About
One of the things that Vue has done to set it apart from its competitors, like React, is to create officially supported projects to fill the gaps in its ecosystem. [...]
A Kinto Backend for the Vue Tutorial Search App
A couple of months ago we started a Vue app that lists and searches for web development tutorials. It works nicely but was missing some key things. All of the data [...]
Simplifying Your Workflow With Vue Development Tools
Simplifying Your Workflow with Vue Development Tools As you begin to use any framework more, you'll want some tools that help you streamline your workflow. This is true of Vue [...]
Unit Testing Vue Components
Unit Testing Vue Components If you're wise, before you decide to use a framework, you check to make sure you'll be able to adequately unit test your application if that [...]
Spotlight on Sphinx: Python Docs For Everyone
If you’ve ever looked at the Python documentation, you’ve seen Sphinx in action. Sphinx is an open-source project that allows people to automatically generate static websites for Python documentation. Besides code-heavy [...]
The Journey from Vue to MobX
I recently began using React with MobX at my new company. Having used Vue with VueX at my previous job, I immediately noticed congruence between the two patterns. What I [...]
Using Horizon/RethinkDB with React
Horizon is an open source Backend as a Service (BaaS) that allows developers to easily build data-driven web and mobile applications. Horizon, which is built on RethinkDB and by the [...]
Sending Secret Messages with Numpy
Numpy is a prominent Python library used for numeric computation. It is very popular with data scientists and analysts who need to do some heavy number crunching. One of the [...]
Where to Study Web Development (Solo) in 2017
appendTo offers web development training courses for teams of developers. That said, we realize many people are learning web development and JavaScript on their own. Thankfully, there’s more resources than ever for [...]
Maintainable and Optimized CSS with CSS Modules
There have been many techniques proposed to help developers develop maintainable and scalable CSS, some of which oppose each other rather directly. BEM was designed to avoid class name clashes, [...]
Intro to Decentralized Databases with GUN.js
Distributed Systems and Decentralization Whether we realize it or not, the software systems that we use in our day to day are an amalgamation of varying services. They are distributed [...]