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In this article, we’ll review some of the best React UI component libraries, and how to choose the right one for you. The article is written primarily for beginner React developers, but you’ll need some familiarity with specific terms in React. React powers the user interfaces (UI) of close to 10 million websites around the world. While the base library of React is solid, there are multiple compon

The best way to learn a tool like React is to build something with it. Next.js is a powerful framework that helps you build for production. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to build a clone of Twitter using Next.js and Prisma. Our app will have the following features: authentication using NextAuth and Twitter OAuth an option to add a new tweet an option to view a list of tweets an option to view

This article will briefly explain what object relational mapping (ORM) is, what an ORM library is, and why you should consider using one with your next JavaScript project. We’ll also help you evaluate the best JavaScript and TypeScript ORM libraries based on your needs as a project developer and maintainer. We’ll look at each of the following tools: Knex.js: SQL Query Builder Sequelize Bookshelf W

You may have established a pattern of coding that utilizes a few key tools offered by your browser’s console. But have you dug any deeper lately? There are some powerful tools available to you, and they might just revolutionize the way you work. The Comfort Zone As developers, we like to find a way of working that make us feel efficient. The trap, though, is that we get comfortable with a certain

December 16, 2020Recreate the Cyberpunk 2077 Button Glitch Effect in CSS If you’re interested in video games in the slightest, you’re no doubt aware of Cyberpunk 2077. It’s one of the most anticipated games of 2020. The world it paints has a certain style to it. The game’s website does a brilliant job of portraying that aesthetic. Its design does a great job of communicating the look and feel. As

Eleventy (or 11ty) is a Node.js static site generator (SSG). SSGs do most rendering work at build time to create a set of static HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files. The resulting pages need not have server-side dependencies such as runtimes or databases. This leads to several key benefits: hosting is simple: you’re serving HTML files systems are secure: there’s nothing to hack performance can be grea

In this tutorial, we show you how to go about building microservices with Deno, and introduce you to Reno — a thin routing library for Deno. We’ll explore how we can use this newer JavaScript platform to build a microservice that exposes endpoints for acting on a database. Deno is a JavaScript and TypeScript runtime from Node.js creator Ryan Dahl that aims to address some of the latter technology’

August 23, 2012Implementing Memoization in JavaScript Key Takeaways Memoization is a programming technique that enhances a function’s performance by caching its previously computed results. This is particularly useful for recursive and mathematical functions that are often called with the same arguments. Implementing memoization involves using a cache indexed by the function’s input arguments. If

Software development is complex and, at some point, your Node.js application will fail. If you’re lucky, your code will crash with an obvious error message. If you’re unlucky, your application will carry on regardless but not generate the results you expect. If you’re really unlucky, everything will work fine until the first user discovers a catastrophic disk-wiping bug. Key Takeaways Leverage adv

NodeGui is an open-source library for building cross-platform, native desktop apps with Node.js. NodeGui apps can run on macOS, Windows, and Linux. The apps built with NodeGui are written using JavaScript, styled with CSS and rendered as native desktop widgets using the Qt framework. Some of the features of NodeGui are: native widgets with built-in support for dark mode low CPU and memory footprin

React and TypeScript are two awesome technologies used by a lot of developers these days. Knowing how to do things can get tricky, and sometimes it’s hard to find the right answer. Not to worry. We’ve put together the best practices along with examples to clarify any doubts you may have. Let’s dive in! How React and TypeScript Work Together Before we begin, let’s revisit how React and TypeScript w

December 12, 2019The Evolution of JavaScript Tooling: A Modern Developer’s Guide This article was created in partnership with Sencha. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. JavaScript application source code has traditionally been hard to understand, due to code being spread across JavaScript, HTML, and CSS files, as well as events and data flowing through a number of n

What do Airbnb, Google, Lyft and Asana have in common? They’ve all migrated several codebases to TypeScript. Whether it is eating healthier, exercising, or sleeping more, our humans love self-improvement. The same applies to our careers. If someone shared tips for improving as a programmer, your ears would perk. In this article, the goal is to be that someone. We know TypeScript will make you a be

Apps that communicate in real time are becoming more and more popular nowadays, as they make for a smoother, more natural user experience. In this tutorial, we’re going to build a real-time chat application using Vue.js powered by ChatKit, a service provided by Pusher. The ChatKit service will provide us with a complete back end necessary for building a chat application on any device, leaving us t

I am a “consultant” or a “contractor”, which are 2 of the various words that begin with “con” that I’ve been called. In essence, my clients have an itch they want to scratch with technology, and they hire my company to do the work. I am not wild about the term “consultant”, but this is a great joke, if you haven’t heard it. As a digital gun-for-hire, I am often involved in moving applications and

Vue continues to grow in popularity and is rapidly being adopted by many developers, and Vue.js tools are popping up everywhere. This is not without reason: Vue’s shallow learning curve, clear functionality-driven structure, and excellent documentation make it easy for novices to pick it up, and for more experienced developers to make a switch from other frameworks like React or Angular. If you ar

Building stateful modern applications is complex. As state mutates, the app becomes unpredictable and hard to maintain. That’s where Redux comes in. Redux is a lightweight library that tackles state. Think of it as a state machine. In this article, I’ll delve into Redux’s state container by building a payroll processing engine. The app will store pay stubs, along with all the extras — such as bonu

In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to build a simple Vue Chrome extension. Our extension will alter the behavior of the new tab page. For the JavaScript part of the extension, I’ll be using the Vue.js framework, as it will allow us to get up and running quickly and is a lot of fun to work with. Browser extensions are small programs that can modify and enhance the functionality of a web br

This article was peer reviewed by Thomas Greco and Edwin Reynoso. Thanks to all of SitePoint’s peer reviewers for making SitePoint content the best it can be! In my previous article titled “Build a Web App with Backbone.js and Socket.io” I’ve explained how to use Backbone.js and Socket.IO to implement an asynchronous messaging paradigm to avoid coupling. The idea behind the tutorial was to separat

June 6, 20226 Clever SVG Pattern Generators for Your Next UX Design SVG patterns could easily be thought of as an under-appreciated superpower of SVG. While they’re often not widely understood, SVG patterns offer a lot of interesting design options once you understand their subtleties. In this article, we’re going to start with a crash course on how SVG patterns work. Then we’ll spin through 6 too

In this guide, we’ll introduce the WordPress Settings API, and create a WordPress administration page where we demonstrate the use of this API. For the purposes of this tutorial, we’ll wrap this functionality into a plugin, but this can also be a part of a WordPress theme. As the WordPress Codex says, the Settings API was added in WordPress 2.7 to streamline adding different settings fields and se

In HTML documents, we can show, hide, or rearrange parts of the page based on the conditions of the viewport. If the browser window is 480 pixels wide, for example, we might shift our navigation from a horizontal one to a vertical, collapsible list. We can do something similar when using SVG with media queries. This article is an extract from Tiffany’s book CSS Master, 3rd Edition. Check it out if

September 10, 2018CSS Architecture: Block-Element-Modifier (BEM) & Atomic CSS In this article, we’ll look at two methodologies for naming things in CSS. Both methods were created to improve the development process for large sites and large teams; however, they work just as well for teams of one. Whether you choose one or the other, neither, or a mix of both is up to you. The point of introducing t

In this article, we review the art of creating printer-friendly web pages with CSS. Table of Contents Why Do We Need CSS for Printing? Print Style Sheets Testing Printer Output Print Preview Developer Tools Hack Your Media Attribute Remove Unnecessary Sections Linearize the Layout Printer Styling Adopt CSS Columns Use Borders Instead of Background Colors Remove or Invert Images Add Supplementary C

In this article, we look at 20 ways to optimize your CSS so that it’s faster-loading, easier to work with and more efficient. According to the latest HTTP Archive reports, the web remains a bloated mess with the mythical median website requiring 1,700Kb of data split over 80 HTTP requests and taking 17 seconds to fully load on a mobile device. The Complete Guide to Reducing Page Weight provides a

August 22, 2018CSS and PWAs: Some Tips for Building Progressive Web Apps In recent years we’ve seen a number of major shifts in the online experience, mostly coming from the proliferation of mobile devices. The evolution of the Web has taken us from single versions of a website, to desktop versus mobile versions, to responsive sites that adapt according to screen size, then to native mobile apps,

August 20, 2018Using CSS Transforms in the Real World In this article, we’ll learn how CSS transforms can be used in the real world to solve various tasks and achieve interesting results. Specifically, you’ll learn how to adjust elements vertically, create nice-looking arrows, build loading animations and create flip animations. Transformations of HTML elements became a CSS3 standard in 2012 and w

July 3, 2018Performance Auditing: A Firefox Developer Tools Deep Dive In this article, we’ll cover Firefox Web Developer Tools (“DevTools”) — a set of tools designed to help developers inspect, debug, profile and optimize the performance of websites and web applications. We’ll particularly look at the tools related to performance, but we’ll also see how to get started using DevTools in general, an