Leaflet is a very powerful tool, and we can create a lot of different kinds of maps. This tutorial will help you understand how to create an advanced map along with the help of React and Vanilla JS. In this article, Shajia Abidi is going to represent the locations of the non-medical fire incidents to which the SF Fire Department responded on a map.
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Django is a framework for developing dynamic websites. While a static website is one that solely presents information, there is no interaction that gets registered to a server. In a static website, the server sends HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to a client and that’s it. More capabilities require a dynamic website, where the server stores information and responds to user interaction beyond just serving pages. One major reason to develop a dynamic site is to authenticate users and restrict content. One major reason to develop a dynamic site is to authenticate users and restrict content. Django provides a powerful out-of-the-box user model, and in this article, Philip Kiely will walk you through the best way to provide secure, intuitive user authentication flows.
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In this article, Dan Halliday reviews the standard approach to creating animated flip cards, and introduces an improved method which solves its sizing problem. You’re going to build a flip card grid with some CSS basics — transforms, flex, and grid. Dan will cover: how flip cards are usually implemented using absolute positioning, the sizing problem that absolute positioning introduces, and a general solution for automatic sizing of overlaid content. Let’s dig in!
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We need to craft better digital products that respect customer’s choices without hurting business KPIs. And we need to do so by taming data collection and abandoning dark patterns, from hidden checkboxes to ambiguous copywriting. Today, Vitaly Friedman brings you our new practical guide on how to influence a positive change in your company and help your business grow sustainably. Without dark patterns, with ethics in mind, and ready for GDPR and CCPA. Jump to table of contents or pre-order the book right away.Read more…
In this post, we’ll set up a demo site and tutorial for headless WordPress, including a starter template! We’ll use the WordPress dashboard for rich content editing, while migrating the front-end architecture to the JAMstack to benefit from better security, performance, and reliability. We’ll do this by setting up a Vue application with Nuxt, pulling in the posts from our application via the WordPress API.
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SmashingConf is coming to Austin, and in this post, Rachel Andrew brings you an interview with one of our speakers, Zach Leatherman, who will be talking about type and font performance. Zach is no stranger to the Smashing stage, and if you want to find out more about web fonts and loading strategies, you can watch his talk from SmashingConf London 2018.
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Artists and designers from across the globe once again got out their favorite tools and created unique and inspiring wallpapers to welcome the new month. The wallpapers are available with and without a calendar for February 2020 and can be downloaded for free.
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Today, Anna Prenzel would like to focus on data streams resulting from click events on the user interface. The processing of such clickstreams is particularly useful for applications with an intensive user interaction where many events have to be processed. This article is dedicated to Angular developers who want to harness the concept of reactive programming. This is a programming style that — simply put — deals with the processing of asynchronous data streams.
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As opposed to JavaScript and Python, variables and functions in CSCS are case-insensitive. The primary goal of CSCS is to let the developer write as little code as possible. In this article, Vassili Kaplan explains how you can use a scripting language to develop cross-platform mobile applications. You’ll find examples in both iOS and Android that include placing widgets on the screen, SQLite, Web Requests and JSON parsing.
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WordPress adoption is massive. So why would a WordPress site consider moving to JAMstack? In this technical case study, Sarah Drasner will cover what an actual WordPress migration looks like, using Smashing Magazine itself! She’ll talk through the gains and losses, the things she wishes she knew earlier, and what she was surprised by. Let’s dig in!
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