Map Making with Google Sheets and React
Data visualizations have gotten a lot more popular over the last 5-10 years with the rise of software like D3, Tableau, and infographics. Maps just might be the original data [...]
AWS Mobile Hub File Storage for Mobile Apps
Using AWS for file storage is a great way to add data upload capabilities to your mobile apps. It can easily be added to your app and give you inexpensive [...]
25 Public React Repos/Apps to Inspire Your Next Project (part 1)
In the last couple of years, React has risen to become a massively popular JavaScript library and developer ecosystem. There are tens of thousands of software projects that use React [...]
Insert, Remove, Splice and Replace elements with Array.splice()
When you already have an existing array and need to make some edits, the Array.splice() method comes in handy. The splice() method allows you to INSERT, REMOVE, and REPLACE elements [...]
The Simple Stack: A Primer on Using React + Google Sheets API
Data-driven web applications are invaluable for all sorts of people and businesses. But updating or changing data in a relational or NoSQL database is not something most non-programmers can do. [...]
Four Ways to Create a Successful Technical Training Program
There are few sure things in life, but there are a lot of probables. You’ll probably pay taxes, you’ll probably waste time looking at social media on your phone, and [...]
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 [...]