CategoryJavaScript

July 29, 2020 — In this article, you’ll learn a few basics of GraphQL and Apollo Client, learning how to work with both of them. By the end, we’ll have built a pet shop app that uses Apollo Client. Read more…

July 23, 2020 — While the component-driven approach has ushered in a new frontier in the way we build web applications, it isn’t without its imperfections — one being its usability and scalability with CSS. This has given birth to a new way to construct and manage our styles in a component-specific manner, otherwise knows as CSS-in-JS. Read more…

July 21, 2020 — In this tutorial, Timi Omoyeni explains what you need to keep in mind when building a desktop application with Vue.js using the Vue CLI Plugin Electron Builder. Read more…

July 20, 2020 — In this article, we are going to be looking at how to use Chakra UI and NuxtJS in building accessible front-end applications. Read more…

July 15, 2020 — In this article, Mike Rogers will introduce you to Stimulus, a modest JavaScript framework that complements your existing HTML. By the end, you’ll have an understanding of the premise of Stimulus and why it’s a useful tool to have in your backpack. Read more…

July 10, 2020 — Transitions are a nice way to remove, change, or update data in an application because their occurrence adds a nice effect and is good for the user experience. In this tutorial, we’ll look at the different ways to apply transitions in both Vue.js and Nuxt.js applications. Read more…

July 8, 2020 — Tauri is a toolchain for creating small, fast, and secure desktop apps from your existing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. In this article, Kelvin explains how Tauri plays well with the progressive framework Vue.js by integrating both technologies in bundling an example web app called nota as a native application. Read more…

July 3, 2020 — Testing gives confidence in written code. In the context of this article, ‘testing’ means ‘automated testing’. Without automated testing, it is significantly harder to ensure the quality of a web application of significant complexity. Fails caused by automated testing may lead to more bugs in production. In this article, we’re going to show how React developers can quickly start testing their app with the React Testing Library (RTL). Read more…

July 2, 2020 — Statically generated sites or pre-rendering and server-side rendered applications are two modern ways to build front-end applications using JavaScript frameworks. These two modes, yet different, are often mixed up as the same thing and in this tutorial, we’re going to learn about the differences between them. Read more…

June 29, 2020 — In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to work with Firebase push notifications in the backend and frontend. We’ll set up the notifications system with an Express back-end server. Afterwards, we’ll listen for the notifications in a React front-end app. Read more…