Web DevelopmentREST vs. GraphQL
REST and GraphQL are two ways to send data over HTTP. The REST-based approach is the traditional way of doing so and has gained a very high adoption rate in many application stacks in the last years. GraphQL is often presented as a revolutionary new way to think about APIs. Indeed GraphQL is able to overcome major shortcomings of REST. [...]
Angular And Contentful – Content Management For Single-Page Web Apps
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to integrate Contentful with your Angular 5/6 application. Contentful is a content management platform which allows you to structure and manage content in the cloud. This content can then be used across multiple platform, e.g. the same content is consumed by a website and a mobile app. [...]
Top 3 JavaScript Online Courses
The JavaScript programming language is essential for nearly every web developer, regardless of whether you’re working on the front-end or you’re working on the back-end part of a web project. JavaScript is also the basis for most modern web development frameworks like Angular, React or Vue. Gaining a profound [...]
AngularCreating Angular Projects With Angular CLI
Creating new Angular projects is easy by using Angular CLI in the following way: $ ng new [name] That’s the default usage of the command and creating a new project folder with [name]. The project which is created in that folder is containing: The default Angular project All dependencies installed in node_modules folder Testing [...]
AngularCourse Announcement: GraphQL with Angular & Apollo
The first CodingTheSmartWay.com online course has been launched and is available on Udemy: GraphQL with Angular & Apollo – The Full-stack Guide (use this link to get the course for just $10 right now) This course is for everyone interested in learning how to build a full-stack GraphQL-based web application with Angular. The [...]
AngularFirebase Cloud Storage With Angular
Firebase Cloud Storage is a cloud service that let’s you store and retrieve user generated content (like images, audio, or video files). The service is highly scaleable and part of the Firebase platform, so that you can make use of the Firebase Cloud Service on various platforms. If you want to use Firebase service in your Angular [...]
GraphQLApollo Server – Introduction
Apollo Server is a library that helps you connect a GraphQL schema to an HTTP server in Node.js. It’s possible to use Apollo Server with all popular HTTP servers like Express, Connect, Hapi, Koa, Restify, and Lambda. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to set up Apollo Server with Node.js and Express. Let’s get started. [...]
AngularApollo Client For Angular – Making Use of GraphQL
The Apollo Client project is part of Apollo and lets you bind GraphQL data to your web user interface. Apollo client is available for major JavaScript frameworks like React, Vue.js, Angular. In this tutorial we’ll take a look at Apollo Client for Angular. We’ll set up a new Angular 5 project from scratch and you’ll [...]
GraphQLCreating A GraphQL Server With Node.js And Express
GraphQL is a language that enables you to provide a complete and understandable description of the data in your API. Furthermore it gives clients the power to ask for exactly what they need and nothing more. The project’s website can be found at http://graphql.org/. There are several advantages of GraphQL. GraphQL is declarative: [...]
Web DevelopmentHow to Create A Web App With External API Access using Wix Code
Wix.com is a cloud-based website builder that makes it easy to create beautiful, professional website. With the Wix Editor, users are able to arrange and customize any element on their site. Traditionally Wix.com has targeted people who want to create their web presence without coding. Now Wix has added a big new feature to their [...]