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27Nov

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GraphQL API with AWS and Use with React

GraphQL has become a go-to API implementation for developers looking to take advantage of features liketype safety, network efficiency, real-time data with subscriptions & more. Building, managing, & deploying your own GraphQL server can be tedious & time consuming, especially for developers new to the technology that may want to quickly get a real-world, secure & scalable GraphQL API up and running without having to learn how to create it from scratch (as well as spend the time learning best practices around API design & authorization). Introducing AWS AppSync In this post we'll learn how to use AWS AppSync, a fully managed GraphQL service, to create a serverless GraphQL API. AWS AppSync allows developers to quickly create serverless, scalable & secu...

26Nov

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Protecting Laravel Sites with IP Intelligence

From the moment you publish a website, you need to be wary of security. From hackers to script-kiddies, you can’t always be sure of where the next attack could come from. So, as developers, we are always on the prowl for the next best thing when it comes to protecting our website(s). In this article, we will cover a simple way of how we can use IP intelligence to detect unwanted connections and protect against insecure requests. What is IP Intelligence When most people hear IP intelligence, the thing that comes to mind is “locating users from their IP address”. But, it doesn’t stop there, IP intelligence can be used to accomplish many things: Content personalization. Currency detection. Fraud prevention. Time Zone lookup. Language redirection. The list...

22Nov

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Error Handling with Angular 6 – Tips and Best Practices

Handling errors properly is essential in building a robust application in Angular. Error handlers provide an opportunity to present friendly information to the user and collect important data for development. In today's age of advanced front-end websites, it's more important than ever to have an effective client-side solution for error handling, which is covered in this article. An application that does not handle errors gracefully leaves its users confused and frustrated when the app suddenly breaks without explanation. Handling these errors across an application greatly improves user experience. Data can also be collected from within the error handlers to inform the development team about important issues that slipped past testing. In this article, we will compare several solutions...

20Nov

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5 Ways to Convert React Class Components to Functional Components w/ React Hooks

In the latest alpha release of React, a new concept was introduced, it is called Hooks. Hooks were introduced to React to solve many problems as explained in the introduction to Hooks session however, it primarily serves as an alternative for classes. With Hooks, we can create functional components that uses state and lifecycle methods. Related Reading: Getting Started with React Hooks Build a React To-Do App with React Hooks (No Class Components) Hooks are relatively new, as matter of fact, it is still a feature proposal. However, it is available for use at the moment if you'd like to play with it and have a closer look at what it offers. Hooks are currently available in React v16.7.0-alpha. It's important to not that there are no plans to ditch classes. React Hooks just ...

Take Your Business Online with Ease: Create Your Website with Mozello

15Nov

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Take Your Business Online with Ease: Create Your Website with Mozello

Few of the current crop of page builders are as simple as Mozello. You don’t need any previous experience, Mozello takes care of everything for you. Just run through the quick set-up and you’ll have a working website, online, in minutes. Mozello is a surprisingly easy-to-use platform that offers you the opportunity to create a personal or business site, with no design or code knowledge. But where it really excels is in lowering the entry-level for anyone hoping to create an ecommerce site. create a brochure, a blog, or even an ecommerce store Mozello is also an ideal option for web designers and developers who need to develop a site simple enough for a client to self-manage. Mozello is so simple to use, your client can make any changes they like, without blowing up your phone ...

15Nov

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Get Started w/ Prisma for Super Simple GraphQL

Almost every week we get to see a new tool or product being released for GraphQL development. Yeah, that's how hot the GraphQL ecosystem is currently is. Today, we'll be looking at one of the tools, which is Prisma. We'll be looking at how to get started with Prisma. Prerequisites To follow along, this tutorial assumes the following: Node.js and NPM installed on your computer Basic knowledge of GraphQL What's Prisma Prisma is a data layer that turns a database into a GraphQL API. We can look at it as a kind of ORM, but it's much more powerful than traditional ORMs. With Prisma, we get a server (Prisma server) that act as a proxy for our database and a high-performance query engine that runs on the server, which generates actual database queries for us. In additi...

14Nov

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Build a React To-Do App with React Hooks (No Class Components)

Yes, a to-do app, seems like something we’ve all done in the past. The great thing about a to-do app is that it covers all 4 aspects of CRUD; Create, Read, Update, Delete. As a developer, we need to know CRUD and a to-do app is the best way to start that learning or refresh some of the things we may be a little rusty on. React is the frontend JavaScript library we are going to be using today. Whether you are new to React or are an avid React user, we can all agree on one thing: React is pretty great. We've already done a React To-Do App here, but that was with Class components. Today we will have no Class components by integrating React Hooks, React’s newest upgrade feature. Let’s get started. React Hooks React is always improving and growing. The latest update is React 1...

11Nov

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CSS Frameworks Or CSS Grid: What Should I Use For My Project?

Among the questions I am most frequently asked is some variety of the question, “Should I use CSS Grid or Bootstrap?” In this article, I will take a look at that question. You will discover that the reasons for using frameworks are varied, and not simply centered around use of the grid system contained in that framework. I hope that by unpacking these reasons, I can help you to make your own decision, in terms of what is best for the sites and applications that you are working on, and also for the team you work with. In this article when I talk about a framework, I’m describing a third party CSS framework such as Bootstrap or Foundation. You might argue these are really component libraries, but many people (including their own docs) would describe them as a framework so that is what we ...

9Nov

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Implementing Smooth Scrolling in React

Smooth Scrolling, dont know what it is? Well, instead of clicking on a button and being instantly taken to a different part of the (same) page, the user is navigated there via a scroll animation. It's one of those subtle features on a site that makes an incredible difference in terms of aesthetics. I personally just implemented this on one of my personal sites because I love the look and feel it provides to the user. That said, even though smooth scrolling might be subtle, it can be a bit tricky to implement yourself. Because of that, in this article, we are going to use the react-scroll package on NPM. Using react-scroll We'll be building a simple app in this tutorial, but if you want a quick rundown of how react-scroll works: Install react-scroll npm i -S react-scroll Import the ...

8Nov

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Get to Know Framer X: The React UI Creator

In this post we will explore Framer X, the new shiny design tool and try to make sense of its benefits as well as its capabilities. Prerequisites: This post assumes that you have basic knowledge of React. What is Framer X? Framer X is the latest and greatest version of Framer Studio, the prototyping tool. Framer Studio when initially released, gave designers the ability to create realistic app prototype designs and animate very advanced interactions than other design apps at the time. Framer X, the newest version of Framer introduces the in-built use of React components to allow designers get closer to high-fidelity prototyping. Framer X also has all the features you need to draw everything from custom icons to intricate illustrations. You could fine-tune your designs...

6Nov

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Improve Animated GIF Performance With HTML5 video

Animated GIFs have a lot going for them; they’re easy to make and work well enough in literally all browsers. But the GIF format was not originally intended for animation. The original design of the GIF format was to provide a way to compress multiple images inside a single file using a lossless compression algorithm (called LZW compression) which meant they could be downloaded in a reasonably short space of time, even on slow connections. Later, basic animation capabilities were added which allowed the various images (frames) in the file to be painted with time delays. By default, the series of frames that constitute the animation was displayed only once, stopping after the last frame was shown. Netscape Navigator 2.0 was the first browser to added the ability for animated GIFs to loop...

4Nov

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These 2 Unpopular Functions Will Improve How You Manipulate JavaScript Array Data

JavaScript has come a long way, it's progressively evolving at a compelling rate and winning an army of followers by the day. The modern JavaScript developer is arguably grappling with increased complexity than a few years ago, but is more armed with better native language features, a solid tooling ecosystem and a vibrant community. Introduction ES5 and ES6 brought a ton of improvements to JavaScript, including better ways of working with a collection of data expressed as arrays. While the language has significantly improved support for declarative data manipulation on arrays, and modern browser support for them continue to be great, JavaScript developers are only adopting a limited subset of array capabilities - generally excluding those that should further improve how they manipulate a...

4Nov

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How To Implement Parent-Child Relationship in MySQL

If the first time you heard this phrase “parent-child relationship in MySQL”, you went “Ok, anyone else got cool made up names or are we to start brainstorming now”, then this article is for you. For the uninitiated, this might not make much sense. That’s perfectly fine because you do not necessarily need it everyday. Parent-child relationship in MySQL has to deal with establishing some hierarchal dependencies between records in a database table. In MySQL terms, it means say that “row 12 is the parent of row 14” and stuff like that. In business terms, it will mean establishing a dependency relationship between two similar entities. For example, keeping a record of all the people in a village and matching parents to their children. So, whenever you hear that phrase, think about a real...

4Nov

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GraphQL – The Good and the Bad

GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data. GraphQL provides a complete and understandable description of the data in your API as well as gives clients the power to ask for exactly what they need and nothing more. It makes it easier to evolve APIs over time and enables powerful developer tools. At least that's what we all know it to be. In this post, we'll look at all the wonderful things about GraphQL and also look at the unpopular "not so good" things about it. Let's kick it off with the good parts :) The Good Exact data fetching The importance and usefulness of GrphQL exact data fetching feature cannot be overemphasized. With GraphQL, you can send a query to your API and get exactly what you need, nothing more and nothin...

31Oct

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Using Create React App v2 and TypeScript

Now that Create React App v2 is out, official TypeScript support comes with it. This is an exciting thing for JavaScript users that use TypeScript. TypeScript is a powerful tool that helps us write safer and self-documenting code. We can catch bugs faster with TypeScript. Many people have opinions about TypeScript, good and bad, but it's a good idea to give it a chance. For this article, we'll focus on getting a Create React App up with TypeScript and we'll do a larger project where we use TypeScript and React together in a future article. Starting a TypeScript Create React App This is the easiest part! npx create-react-app my-typescript-app --typescript What packages does the --typescript flag get us and what changes does it make? The TypeScript Additions The --type...