It’s time for another monthly update! The best way to get better together is by learning from each other, and what better way is there than to promote new ideas and the way forward for the web industry. A quick peek at our ever-growing guides will show you that we’re dedicated in bringing together a variety of topics that will help us all explore and learn new things. Join us as we share the latest news and highlight the things we have enjoyed reading over the past month.
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Ever had to switch your focus from your editor and to your terminal to see the results of your tests? This article will introduce you to Wallaby.js — a JavaScript productivity tool that supercharges your IDE by allowing you to get real-time feedback on your JavaScript tests in your code editor even before saving the file. You will also learn how to use Wallaby.js for testing React applications.
Note: In order to be able to follow along, you’ll need to be familiar with JavaScript testing and have a working knowledge of building React applications.
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In this tutorial, Chidi Orji is going to show you how to use the Web Worker API to manage time-consuming and UI-blocking tasks in a JavaScript app by building a sample web app that leverages Web Workers. Finally, we’ll end the article by transferring everything to a React application. If you need more insights into this topic, Chidi has included a number of links in the “Further Resources” section to help you get up to speed.
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Netlify Forms is a form handling feature that receives submissions from HTML forms automatically. In this article, Zara Cooper will explain how you could use an Angular reactive form with Netlify Forms. Since Netlify Forms only work when deployed on Netlify, she’ll also illustrate how to deploy your app on Netlify Edge.
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How can you convince your clients to make a faster (and easier) buy-in? Better serving citizens means improving a frustrating website experience — the primary way Californians access necessary services. With the help of a guided design exercise, Kelly Schummer explains how the Design Shopping workflow can help guide you throughout the design phases.
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Forms are an integral part of how users interact with our websites and web applications. Validating the data the user passes through the form is a critical aspect of our jobs as web developers. However, it doesn’t have to be a pain-staking process. In this article, Nefe Emadamerho-Atori will show you how Formik handles the state of the form data, validates the data, and handles form submission.
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In this overview of WebXR technologies and the Babylon.js framework, we’ll embark on a journey through the past, present, and future of mixed reality both on the web and on immersive headsets. We’ll inspect the underpinnings of WebXR and the most important aspects of the WebXR Device API before turning our attention to Babylon.js, a framework for building immersive applications in JavaScript for web, mobile, and headset. This tutorial is geared toward web and JavaScript developers who build web applications but are looking to dip their toes into immersive experiences.
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From a user’s profile picture to other media assets, data collection and storage to cloud services through file uploads have become an essential feature for most modern applications. Today, Nwani Victory will show you how to file uploads that can be implemented in a GraphQL application. This article will be beneficial to developers who are interested in or considering using Google Cloud Storage for file uploads in their React and Nodejs GraphQL application. While this article is not an introduction to GraphQL, each GraphQL concept used within this article is explained and referenced for better understanding.
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Meet our new book, “TypeScript in 50 Lessons”, a deep-dive to understand what TypeScript is, how it works, and how you can make it work for you. With code walkthroughs, hands-on examples and common gotchas. 464 pages. Jump to table of contents and get the book right away.Read more…
The dream of a machine-readable Internet is as old as the Internet itself, but only in recent years has it really seemed possible. The benefits of developing for the Semantic Web are not always immediate, or visible, but every site that does strengthens the foundations of an open, transparent, decentralized internet. As major websites take strides towards data-fying their content, now’s the perfect time to jump on the bandwagon.
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