How To Create A Particle Trail Animation In JavaScript How To Create A Particle Trail Animation In JavaScript Anna Prenzel 2020-04-14T11:00:00+00:00 2020-04-14T12:34:57+00:00 Have you ever thought about distracting visitors of your website with a fancy, glittering particle animation for a few moments, while some data is loaded in the background? Fortunately, it’s not necessary to…
Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography Andrew Clarke 2020-04-13T10:00:00+00:00 2020-04-13T12:35:19+00:00 While good use of type helps people to read, great typography can do so much more. Typography can eloquently articulate an…
Getting Started With The React Hooks API Getting Started With The React Hooks API Shedrack Akintayo 2020-04-10T09:30:00+00:00 2020-04-10T12:36:03+00:00 When React 16.8 was released officially in early February 2019, it shipped with an additional API that lets you use state and other features in React without writing a class. This additional API is called Hooks and…
Baking Structured Data Into The Design Process Baking Structured Data Into The Design Process Frederick O’Brien 2020-04-09T11:30:00+00:00 2020-04-09T12:35:58+00:00 Search engine optimization (SEO) is essential for almost every kind of website, but its finer points remain something of a specialty. Even today SEO is often treated as something that can be tacked on after the fact….
How To Set Up An Express API Backend Project With PostgreSQL How To Set Up An Express API Backend Project With PostgreSQL Chidi Orji 2020-04-08T11:00:00+00:00 2020-04-08T12:34:21+00:00 We will take a Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach and the set up Continuous Integration (CI) job to automatically run our tests on Travis CI and AppVeyor, complete with code…
Smashing Podcast Episode 13 With Laura Kalbag: What Is Online Privacy? Smashing Podcast Episode 13 With Laura Kalbag: What Is Online Privacy? Drew McLellan 2020-04-07T07:00:00+00:00 2020-04-07T12:36:33+00:00 In this episode of the Smashing Podcast, we’re talking about online privacy. What should web developers be doing to make sure the privacy of our users is maintained? I…
Create Your Free Developer Blog Using Hugo And Firebase Create Your Free Developer Blog Using Hugo And Firebase Zara Cooper 2020-04-06T11:30:00+00:00 2020-04-06T12:35:23+00:00 In this tutorial, I’ll demonstrate how to create your own blog using Hugo and deploy it on Firebase for free. Hugo is an open-source static site generator and Firebase is a Google platform…
Releasing The Ethical Design Handbook When We Needed It Most Releasing The Ethical Design Handbook When We Needed It Most Ari Stiles 2020-04-03T10:00:00+00:00 2020-04-03T12:35:00+00:00 Ethics is a timely subject for all of us who work on digital products, so it was no surprise The Ethical Design Handbook was well received. There is a real need…
Django Highlights: Templating Saves Lines (Part 2) Django Highlights: Templating Saves Lines (Part 2) Philip Kiely 2020-04-02T12:00:00+00:00 2020-04-02T12:35:28+00:00 Some no-frills approaches to building websites require a developer to write every line of HTML by hand. On the other extreme, commercial no-code site builders create all of the HTML for the user automatically, often at the…
Building A Web App With Headless CMS And React Building A Web App With Headless CMS And React Blessing Krofegha 2020-04-01T11:30:00+00:00 2020-04-01T12:36:30+00:00 In this tutorial, you’ll learn what Headless CMS is, and the pros and cons of Headless CMS. In the end, youll have built a shopping cart using GraphCMS (a (backend-only content management system)….
