10 Great Sites for UI Design Patterns

UI – Patterns We like UI Patterns; it makes it easy to find patterns that you like and to group them together once you’ve decided that something is useful. They also have a bunch of interesting articles on UI design patterns which can help extend the way you approach using patterns in your designs. Author/Copyright holder: …

8 React Application Deployment and Hosting Solutions for 2019

Useful solutions for deploying and hosting your React applications in the cloud. After working in your development environment and playing around with localhost, you most likely would need to build out your react application to become production ready and deploy it for everyone to experience the react goodness in their local machines too. In this …

DOM & BOM Revisited

Let’s go back to the basics and briefly review two important JavaScript concepts: the DOM and the BOM. DOM The Document Object Model (DOM) is a set of utilities for manipulating XML documents (and, by extension, also HTML documents, which is what we are most likely interested in). Before being able to make use of these utilities …

How to Use Web Browser Developer Tools

Integrated Toolsets for Web Designers, Developers and Testers In addition to most browser makers focusing on the everyday user looking to surf the Web, they also cater to the Web developers, designers and quality assurance professionals who help build the apps and sites that those users are accessing by integrating powerful tools right into the …

Web Application Security Basics

Some History With the development of the computers and the communication technologies, the question of the security is becoming more and more pressing. Nowadays, every individual has some kind of presence on the Internet. This is true to a much greater extent for the companies — you simply cannot do business if you do not …

Application State Management with React

How React is all you need to manage your application state Managing state is arguably the hardest part of any application. It's why there are so many state management libraries available and more coming around every day (and even some built on top of others... There are hundreds of "easier redux" abstractions on npm). Despite …

19 ways to become a better Node.js developer in 2019

The Node.js future brings some interesting stuff 1. Add some types and schemas. Typescript is a great candidate in 2019 Coding in a typeless manner has proven to be counter-productive and error-prone (see research). That doesn’t mean you must go all the way toward strictly-typed syntax, rather choose your desired degree of schematic code either by just validating …

The beginners guide to jQuery & AJAX

[ INTRO ] Before diving into some of the helpful methods AJAX has to offer, lets cover some basic terminology that will help us better understand the following material. We’ll quickly cover asynchronous behavior, callback functions, as well as provide definitions for our AJAX and jQuery methodologies. [ ASYNCHRONOUS ] To understand asynchronous, I should first …

6 Popular Headless Browsers for Web Testing

Basics of Headless Browsers Headless browsing may seem like an odd term, but it’s simply a name for a browser or browser simulation without the recognizable graphical interface. Instead of testing a site or performing common actions using familiar graphical elements, use cases are automated and tested with a command-line interface. Headless browsers are commonly …

Introduction to Headless Browsers

The headless browsers are simply a name given to the browser without any identifiable graphical user interface. We all are aware that website development has evolved dramatically in last few decades. Developers are working rigorously to find out ways to build such a user interface that can deliver an optimal user experience to the website …