Useful Front-End Boilerplates And Starter Kits

We don’t need to write everything from scratch every single time. With boilerplates and starter kits, we can set up our projects faster, and get to work immediately. We’ve also just recently covered CSS auditing tools, CSS generators, accessible front-end components and VS code extensions — you might find them useful, too.

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Mocks, Stubs, or Spies? What's the Difference and When Do I Use Them?

Most developers have probably heard of mocks, stubs, and spies in the world of test doubles. There is often confusion about the difference between the three and when you want to use them. I am here to help clear things up. Stubs are the simplest form of the three test doubles.

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Temporal: getting started with JavaScript’s new date time API

Clarified how Instant uses the ISO-8601 calendar. Listed the properties of some classes. Date, JavaScript’s current date time API is infamously difficult to use. The ECMAScript proposal “Temporal” is a new and better date time API and currently at stage 3.

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The 6 Levels of UX Maturity

Summary: Our UX-maturity model has 6 stages that cover processes, design, research, leadership support, and longevity of UX. Use our quiz to get an idea of your organization’s UX maturity. UX maturity measures an organization’s desire and ability to successfully deliver user-centered design.

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When it comes to career development, what's your habitat?

Last year felt kind of like hibernation. I set down excursions, side projects, and personal goals in favor of going into survival mode. Many of us focused on staying afloat rather than on career development. In April, with spring, came hope.

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Building WebRTC Video Chat Applications

With the advent of WebRTC and the increasing capacity of browsers to handle peer-to-peer communications in real time, it’s easier than ever to build real-time applications. In this article, we’ll take a look at SimpleWebRTC and how we can use the platform in implementing WebRTC technology.

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Creating A Multi-Author Blog With Next.js

This article explains how we can connect different types of content in a Next.js application. With this technique, we can add any kind of one-to-one, one-to-many, or even many-to-many relationship to our projects. In this article, we are going to build a blog with Next.js that supports two or more authors. We will attribute each post to an author and show their name and picture with their posts. Each author also gets a profile page, which lists all posts they contributed.

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