Glad Chinda, Author at PHPInfo

9Jul

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Web Tricks

Building Text-to-Speech Apps for the Web

Having interacted with several apps over the years, there is a very high chance that you have interacted with apps that provide some form of voice experience. It could be an app with text-to-speech functionality like reading your text messages or notifications aloud. It could also be an app with voice recognition functionality like the popular Siri or Google Assistant. With the advent of HTML5, there has been a very fast growth in the number of API available on the web platform. Over the years, we have come across API such as WebSocket, File, Geolocation, Notification, Battery, Vibration, DeviceOrientation, WebRTC, etc. Some of these API have gained very high support across various browsers. However, most of them are still in the experimental phase of development and are to be used with mu...

Build Custom Pagination with React

Often times, we get involved in building web apps in which we are required to fetch large sets of data records from a remote server, API or some database sitting somewhere. If you are building a payment system for example, it could be fetching thousands of transactions. If it is a social media app, it could be fetching tonnes of user comments, profiles or activities. Whichever it is, there are a couple of methods for handling the data such that it doesn't become overwhelming to the end-user interacting with the app. One of the popular methods for handling large datasets on the view is by using the infinite scrolling technique - where more data is loaded in chunks as the user continues scrolling very close to the end of the page. This is the technique used in displaying search re...

Web Scraping Scotch: The Node Way

A lot of new web technologies and design paradigms have emerged in the last couple of years. Some programming languages are beginning to gain increasing popularity. It's very likely to have heard about concepts like responsive design, hybrid mobile/desktop apps, progressive web apps(PWAs), single page applications(SPAs), server-side rendered(SSR) apps, serverless architechture, the list goes on. While every modern web developer aims at getting up to speed with these technologies, there are a few less popular web concepts and techniques that are quite useful - one of which is web scraping. In this tutorial, we will take a look at web scraping and practical ways we can harness the technique. What is Web Scraping? In very simple terms, web scraping is the technique of extracting data from web...