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Javascript ES2021 - Features to be included this year in ES12

Mar 24, 20216 min read619

Mobile DevCast - A podcast dedicated to mobile app development and web native technologies

Jan 24, 20212 min read423

Routing, programmatically in Ionic React

I want to teach you how you can achieve routing programmatically in Ionic with React, with examples!

Jun 3, 20214 min read581

How to easily understand Flexbox CSS - (Part 2)

Nov 14, 20204 min read826

How to easily understand Flexbox CSS - (Part 1)

Nov 9, 20204 min read2.4K

Using React Context API with NextJS

One huge pain point in React (and NextJS) is having to pass props through multi-level components. The bigger the application or project gets, the more painful this becomes. This is because of how React is structured, in a tree like fashion with data ...

Nov 2, 20205 min read2.9K

Programming is like building Lego blocks

This may seem like a weird thing to compare programming or coding to, but it's so true, for a few reasons. Building upon what you've done already When you have a piece of code, you can stop and continue building upon your solution at any time - you'r...

Oct 31, 20202 min read369

The importance of planning a website

This is probably one of the most important steps in the whole web development process. Aside from all the coding, styling and technical things, we as web developers have to do - we also have to plan out and think about how we want our site to look li...

Oct 30, 20203 min read395

How to use the useState hook in React

React is a very powerful JavaScript library, I'm sure everyone will agree right? One of the most advantageous aspects of React is the ability to re-render part of your UI based on some state that you hold values in. I'm going to show you here in a fe...

Oct 29, 20204 min read688

How to be a confident, new web developer

Just DO it. This may seem really simple, but sometimes just doing it, works. A lot of the time you will hesitate when wanting to try something different in web development. For example, if you have an idea of how to implement functionality, my advice...

Oct 29, 20202 min read1.5K

Using Google Lighthouse to audit any website

👉 First of all, what is Google Lighthouse? It's an automated audit tool aimed at helping you improve web page quality. They provide reports for: ✔️ Performance ✔️ Accessibility ✔️ Best Practices ✔️ Progressive Web App Capabilities ✔️ SEO 👉 Why is t...

Oct 28, 20202 min read328

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