Build Your Own Giphy Clone with React and Cloudinary

We’ve all seen and used them… animated GIFs they are funny, distracting and seem to be everywhere. We have Alex Chung and Jace Cooke to thank for this incredible distraction and waste of everyone’s time. Seriously. It’s a distraction. The initial idea came to them over breakfast.

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Replacing jQuery With Vue.js: No Build Step Necessary

A really common use case for needing JavaScript on a site is capturing user input from a form, so let’s start there. We won’t actually incorporate the full form yet in the interest of simplicity and clarity, but we’ll work up to it by the end.

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The 7-step process of Angular router navigation

There are many great articles and books available on how to use and configure Angular router. In contrast, little information is available on what Angular router actually does once it is running. This article is not an introduction to Angular router or a guide on how to configure it.

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An Exhaustive Guide to Writing Dockerfiles for Node.js Web Apps

This post is filled with examples ranging from a simple Dockerfile to multistage production builds for Node.js web apps. Here’s a quick summary of what this guide covers: If you’d like to jump right ahead to the code, check out the GitHub repo.

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How to be an uncommonly good web developer

What does it take to be a really good web developer? If you’re working at your first programming job, you probably found out quickly that it’s not easy. It’s one thing to watch coding tutorials, read programming books, and make portfolio sites.

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JavaScript: What’s new in ECMAScript2018?

At the latest TC39 meeting the new features that will make it into the “ECMAScript® 2018 Language Specification” (ES2018) have been selected. All proposals that have reached stage-4 since the consolidation of ES2017 got selected.

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A Visual Git Reference

This page gives brief, visual reference for the most common commands in git. Once you know a bit about how git works, this site may solidify your understanding. If you're interested in how this site was created, see my GitHub repository. The four commands above copy files between the working directory, the stage (also called the index), and the history.

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