I built a Progressive Web App and published it in 3 app stores. Here’s what I learned.

The process was both painful and enlightening. Here’s what I learned. First, you might wonder, “Why even put your app in the app stores? Just live on the opened web!” The answer, in a nutshell, is because that’s where the users are. We’ve trained a generation of users to find apps in proprietary app stores, not on the free and open web.

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Your first performance budget with Lighthouse

I asked on Twitter the other day how many people had created and enforced a performance budget for a website they were working on. Not surprisingly, the vast majority of people hadn't. I'm curious, have you ever created (and enforced) a performance budget for a site you're working on?

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How to optimize React applications with Lazy Loading ?

Lazy loading is an old technique to optimize web applications as well as on mobile apps. The thing is pretty straight forward - do not render things if they are not viewed or required at that moment.

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The Angular DevOps Series: CT/CI with Travis CI and GitHub Pages

This article describes how to use Travis CI to watch the master branch on our GitHub repository for changes. We will configure Travis CI so that upon pushing a new commit for our Angular application it will: This post is the second post of the Angular DevOps Series.

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Colors in UI Design — Theory, Psychology & Practice

We all are surrounded by colors 24/7. We see things and with every color we see we get different emotions. Colors affect us mentally and physically in many ways. To raise blood pressure, a strong red color has been shown, while a blue color has a calming effect.

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Deploying an Angular App to Netlify

Netlify is one of the best places to deploy an application or a website today. There is no need to manage a server, NGINX, certificates, or scaling due to high traffic. While it is first thought of as a place to deploy your JAMstack site, it can also be used to deploy regular JavaScript applications.

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Closures and Currying in Javascript

What are Closures? If you write code in Javascript it's quite likely you have come across the term closure, which is a useful yet often confusing concept. But just what is a closure? A closure may be described as a combination of a function and the lexical environment in which it was declared.

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