Why enterprises welcome Angular

This year I already ran about ten Angular workshops and made several presentations at various conferences (e.g. DevoxxUS, DevNexus, BuzzJS, JEEConf).

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Learning Machine Learning and NLP from 185 Quora Questions

Quora has become a great resource for machine learning. Many top researchers are active on the site answering questions on a regular basis. Here are some of the main AI-related topics on Quora. If you have a Quora account, you can subscribe to these topics to customize your feed.

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Xiaomi Mi Box 4K a €49

Hoje em dia chegamos a um ponto em que grande parte dos televisores se transformaram em verdadeiros centros multimédia com capacidade de correr apps; mas a verdade é que nem sempre os mesmos contam com interfaces que nos agradam e, o pior de tudo, continuam a sofrer do problema de falta de actualizações que faz com que, ao final de dois ou três anos, demonstrem que a sua capacidade "smart" se dissipou (basta perguntarem a quem tem televisores que ficaram sem acesso ao Skype ou ao YouTube).

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How to Organise Remote Work in the Company?

Remote working is on the rise and it seems that it is not going anywhere but up. More and more companies are using a remote working model to grow their teams, get additional tasks done and cut costs at the same time. There are obvious benefits for companies and for employees.

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NgRx: Patterns and Techniques

Victor Savkin is a co-founder of nrwl.io, providing Angular consulting to enterprise teams. He was previously on the Angular core team at Google, and built the dependency injection, change detection, forms, and router modules.

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Progressively Enhancing CSS Layout: From Floats To Flexbox To Grid

Earlier this year, support for CSS grid layout landed in most major desktop browsers. Naturally, the specification is one of the hot topics at meet-ups and conferences. After having some conversations about grid and progressive enhancement, I believe that there’s a good amount of uncertainty about using it.

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A simple Calculator app using React and Node

About 3 months ago, I found myself in a situation where I needed to write a web based application, which I have chosen not to mention, using javascript as the programing language — React for the frontend and Node for the backend.

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Rest APIs are REST-in-Peace APIs. Long Live GraphQL.

After years of dealing with REST APIs, when I first learned about GraphQL and the problems it’s attempting to solve, I could not resist tweeting the exact title of this article.

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How To Run Chrome OS From a USB Drive and Use It On Any Computer

Google only supports running Chrome OS on Chromebooks, but don’t let that stop you. You can put Chrome OS on a USB drive and boot it on any computer, just as you’d run a Linux distribution from a USB drive. If you just want to test Chrome OS, your best bet is running it in a virtual machine.

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10 React Applications for You to Use, Study, and Apply

React is an awesome way to create interactive UIs. This open-source JavaScript library “allows developers to create large web applications that use data which can change over time, without reloading the page.”

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Tesla entrega primeiros Model 3

Depois de muitos anos de espera, Elon Musk consegue finalmente entrar na era que sempre ambicionou, de criar um automóvel 100% eléctrico "para todos". O Model 3 está aí, e já foram entregues as primeiras unidades.

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Real-World Angular Series, Part 8a: Lazy Loading, Production Deployment, SSL

The seventh part of this tutorial (Part 7a and Part 7b) covered deleting events, retrieving relational data from MongoDB to list events a user has RSVPed to, and silently renewing authentication tokens.

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I took a ride in Tesla's new Model 3

After celebrating the delivery of its first 30 Model 3's to eagerly awaiting pre-order customers, Tesla invited attendees at Friday night's event to take a spin in the brand new vehicles. So of course, we took them up on the offer. Watch a Tesla Model 3 vs. Volvo S60 side-pole impact test pic.

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Ngrx and Angular 2 Tutorial: Building a Reactive Application

We talk a lot about reactive programming in the Angular realm. Reactive programming and Angular 2 seem to go hand in hand. However, for anyone not familiar with both technologies, it can be quite a daunting task to figure out what it is all about.

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Quiz: How well do you know CSS?

In the world of web development, CSS is often seen as a mystical language that is somehow both very easy and super complex at the same time. Almost everyone uses it on a daily basis, yet very few people can claim they really know what they are doing.

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Top 30 Android Development Tools

In this article, I am going to share some of the best Android tools to improve your development productivity and build better applications. I have been personally using these tools for quite some time now and have found them to be really useful and satisfying.

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An Easier Way to Authenticate Users in E2E Tests

There are many cases in which you may need your tests to act on behalf of an authenticated user. For instance, if your Web application provides special functionality for authorized users, you will need your test to authenticate.

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Rearchitecting Airbnb’s Frontend

Overview: We recently rethought the architecture for the JavaScript side of our codebase at Airbnb. This post will look at (1) the product drivers that precipitated the changes, (2) the steps we took to move away from our legacy Rails solutions, and (3) some of the key pillars of the new stack.

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Everything I learned from ES6 for Everyone

After I took (and loved) Wes Bos’ #Javascript30 course, I put together all of my notes on it and the internet said “hell yes”. It’s almost certainly my most widely-read post of all time, plus it definitely helped me to write it.

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What’s So Great About Redux?

Redux elegantly handles complex state interactions that are hard to express with React’s component state. It is essentially a message-passing system, like the kind seen in Object-Oriented programming, but implemented as a library instead of in the language itself¹.

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10 Ways to Misuse Angular

Co-written with Varun Vachhar. Any chainsaw that can cut down a tree can also take off a leg if used carelessly. Equally, any framework as powerful as Angular will inevitably contain traps for the unwary.

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Checklist: Node.JS production best practices

Process environment variables is a set of key-value pairs made available to any running program, usually for configuration purposes. Though any variables can be used, Node encourages the convention of using a variable called NODE_ENV to flag whether we’re in production right now.

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Real-World Angular Series, Part 7a: Relational Data and Token Renewal

The sixth part of this tutorial (Part 6a, Part 6b, and Part 6c) covered reactive forms with custom validation. The seventh installment in the series covers deleting events, retrieving relational data from MongoDB to list events a user has RSVPed to, and silently renewing authentication tokens.

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Node.js Tests: Mocking HTTP Requests

Writing tests for an application that relies on external services, say, a RESTful API, is challenging. More often than not, an external resource may require authentication, authorization or may have a rate limiting.

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The Missing Advice I Needed When Starting My Career – Smashing Magazine

Do you ever wish you had a time machine? I certainly do, but not for the usual reasons. I want a time machine so I can go back and have a frank conversation with my younger self. I’ll let you in on a bit of a secret: My younger self was an idiot!

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PWAs with the Angular CLI

PWAs are a hot topic right now, in case you’ve been hiding under a rock PWAs stand for Progressive Web Apps. They allow us to make our web experiences feel more like native applications on our phone. They achieve this through a few different techniques:

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Angular: Best Practices

I published an article recently about things you should avoid doing when using Angular. Now it’s the time to dive into stuff that you may rather consider doing in your Angular application.

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Os limites do roaming gratuito na Europa

As taxas de roaming na Europa chegaram ao fim no passado dia 15 de Junho, permitindo que os Europeus usufruam do seu tarifário em qualquer país da UE, mas há que estar atento para os limites que visam impedir a utilização continuada de um tarifário de outro país.

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Adobe Is Finally Killing Flash (For Real, This Time)

Here it is, hiding halfway down the company’s latest press release, like a guillotine in a crowded town square: “Adobe is planning to end-of-life Flash.” Boom. That’s the sound of the blade dropping, and Flash, finally, thankfully, mercifully dying. Because Adobe just killed it.

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Build a Cryptocurrency Comparison Site with Vue.js

Vue.js is a simple Javascript framework that lets you build dynamic front-end web applications. Lots of people compare it to React and Angular. As a back-end developer, and someone not incredibly experienced with frontend web applications, I’ve found Vue.

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JavaScript Factory Functions with ES6+

A factory function is any function which is not a class or constructor that returns a (presumably new) object. In JavaScript, any function can return an object. When it does so without the new keyword, it’s a factory function.

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How to Create a Reddit Clone Using React and Firebase

React is an awesome JavaScript library for building user interfaces. Since the publishing of Create React App, it has become very easy to scaffold a barebones React application.

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Simple server side cache for Express.js with Node.js

This blog was written by Guilherme Oenning who is a Senior Software Developer at SoftwareONE. He truly believes that learning never ends and sharing knowledge is key to growth. When not programming, he can be found running or cycling around the city.

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Get eyes in the sky with your Raspberry Pi

Did you know that you can use your Raspberry Pi to get eyes in the sky? By tuning into radio signals emitted from planes up to 250 miles away from your location you can track flights and it only takes a few minutes and a cheap USB TV stick to get started.

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Continuous Integration with Angular CLI

Angular CLI is a powerful tool to scaffold and build Angular apps. Not only it provides you scalable project structure, instead it handles all common tedious tasks for you out of the box and it already follow the Angular best practices.

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MEAN and Cosmos DB - Part 4: Creating and Deploying Cosmos DB

I've released a new videos series that shows how to build MEAN apps using Cosmos DB. Each video in the series will be a couple of minutes and show how each part of the application works. This next video shows how to create the MongoDB database with Azure Cosmos DB, and deploy it to Azure.

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How to Resign From Your Job

Sometimes you end up in a position, for instance, Press Secretary at the White House, that you’re not exactly cut out for. Everyone has to quit a job at some point.

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Creating a static blog with Gatsby

Gatsby is an incredible static site generator that allows for React to be used as the underlying rendering engine to scaffold out a static site that truly has all the benefits expected in a modern web application.

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Under the hood: ReactJS

This repository contains an explanation of inner work of ReactJS. In fact, I was debugging through the entire code base and put all the logic on visual block-schemes, analyzed them, summarized and explained main concepts and approaches.

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How to Build a Collaborative MIDI App with Express.js & Socket.io

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to build an app that allows you to use your midi keyboard to make music in real-time with friends! Here’s what we’re building: As you can see, playing a note lights up a key in pink and displays the input data in the list.

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Introducing npx: an npm package runner

Those of you upgrading npm to its latest version, npm@5.2.0, might notice that it installs a new binary alongside the usual npm: npx.

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JavaScript really is overtaking the world

But this article isn’t about how much I love JavaScript, nope, it’s about how much it’s saturating the front end development space and worryingly becoming the be–all and end–all of front end development.

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Angular Facebook User Authentication

AngularJS Facebook Login is an easy way for users to log in to the web site once Facebook users can grant permissions to our website; thereby retrieving all the user information. First initially we need to integrate Facebook SDK for JavaScript with an AngularJS.

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The importance of side projects

I understand the importance of side projects. But how do I know which one to pursue? How do I find a problem to tackle that has not already been tackled? I am entering the world of design and I want to start working on side projects. I just don’t know where to begin.

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RSSUnify - Combine multiple RSS feeds for free

With no limits on the number of combined feeds you can create or how many requests can be made on each. Create combined RSS feeds from multiple sources.

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Creating a Blogging App Using React, Part 4: Update & Delete Posts

In the previous part of this tutorial series, you saw how to implement the add and display post functionality. In this part of the tutorial series on creating a blogging app in React, you'll implement the functionality to update and delete the blog posts.

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Build An Offline Git Trending PWA Part 3: Manifest and Notifications

This article is the last part of the 3-part series on building a Progressive Web Web. If you landed here first and need to review the previous articles, here is Part 1 and Part 2. To create an end to end mobile experience for your users, you need to make them feel like the app is native by providing some of the features that their usual native apps provide them already.

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Building a realtime dashboard powered by Laravel and Vue (2017 edition)

At Spatie we have a tv screen against the wall that displays a dashboard. This dashboard displays the tasks our team should be working on, important events in the near future, which music is playing at our office, and so on. Here’s what it looks like:

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Britecharts

Britecharts is a client-side reusable Charting Library based on D3.js v4 that allows easy and intuitive use of charts and components that can be composed together creating amazing visualizations.

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tebelorg/TagUI

The goal of web automation is to reproduce cognitive interactions that you have with websites so that your laptop or server can do it for you, base on your schedule or conditions.

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