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Web DevelopmentTop Static Site Generators For 2019
Static site generators focus on one main task: generate a complete static HTML-based site. This result does not rely on databases or other external data sources and therewith avoid any server-side processing when accessing the website. In comparison to dynamic websites, static sites have many advantages and therefore are becoming more [...]
ReactReact Hooks Explained – Functional Components With State
React Hooks is a new feature which is coming with React 16.7 and is adding missing pieces of functionality to React’s functional components: By using State Hooks it’s possible to add state to functional components By using Effect Hooks you can add code to functional components which is executed in response to [...]
Vue.jsBuilding A Real-Time Chat Application With Vue.js and Firebase – Part 3
Part 1: Setting Up The Project Part 2: Implementing The Chat Logic Part 3: Firebase Cloud Functions In this second part of the Building A Real-Time Chat Application With Vue.js and Firebase tutorial series we’ve further completed the implementation of the Vue.js front-end application. In this third part we’ll be implementing [...]
The 2019 Roadmap To Fullstack Web Development
Becoming a fullstack web developer requires you to cover a lot of skills. For beginners it’s often not easy to find the right learning path and to gain quick result. At first sight it might be overwhelming to understand what you need to learn and how everything fits together at the end. This post will give you an overview of [...]
Vue.jsBuilding A Real-Time Chat Application With Vue.js and Firebase – Part 2
Part 1: Setting Up The Project Part 2: Implementing The Chat Logic Part 3: Firebase Cloud Functions In the first part of the Building A Real-Time Chat Application With Vue.js and Firebase tutorial series we’ve set up the Vue.js project, installed needed dependencies like the Bootstrap framework, established the connection to [...]
Vue.jsBuilding A Real-Time Chat Application With Vue.js and Firebase – Part 1
Part 1: Setting Up The Project Part 2: Implementing The Chat Logic Part 3: Firebase Cloud Functions Vue.js is a powerful framework for building JavaScript-based single page web-applications and is often considered to combine the best of both, React and Angular. Firebase is a cloud development platform by Google which offers various [...]
Top 3 Angular 7 Online Courses
Angular 7 is out with many new features and optimisations included. Since Angular 2 the web development platform is evolving constantly. Angular has already gained a lot of traction and is one of the top web development frameworks today. Many projects and companies have made the switch from Angular.js to Angular (version 2, 4, 6 and 7) [...]
Course Announcement: Vue CLI 3 – Vue.js Development Made Easy
A new CodingTheSmartWay.com online course has been launched and is available on Udemy today! Wow! Vue CLI 3 – Vue Development Made Easy (use this link to get the course for just $10 right now) Throughout this course, you will be learning what Vue CLI 3 is and why it was introduced. The command line interface that is provided by the [...]
Vue.jsGetting Started With Vue CLI 3
Vue CLI 3 is a complete rewrite of the previous version of the Vue command line interface tool and comes with a set of new features which makes Vue development and the management of Vue projects a lot easier: Out-of-the-box support for Babel, TypeScript, ESLint, PostCSS, PWA, Unit Testing & End-to-end Testing. A plugin system which [...]
AngularAngular & Chart.js (with ng2-charts)
Chart.js is an opens source JavaScript library which makes it very easy to include animated and responsive charts in your website. If you’d like to combine Chart.js with Angular there is another package which you can use: ng2-charts. Adding this package to your project gives you access to Angular directives which you can use to [...]