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How To Use Git For Beginners: A Step-by-Step Guide in 2023
First and foremost we need to know what “git” is. Git is a version control system that allows developers to track changes to their codebase and collaborate with others. It is an essential tool for any developer, and it is worth taking the time to learn how to use it effectively. Being able to use […]
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How To Fix A Merge Conflict In 4 Steps
I know that you won’t read this, you just want the answer into how to fix a merge conflict, so here we go: Here are the steps Download Visual Studio Code Open the project in vscode Navigate to the source control option on the left side of the editor Click on the file that you […]
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How to create a mock API in 5 minutes
Mockaroo is one of the best and easiest websites to create mock data with. I have used it countless times whenever I needed a lot of test data for data visualisation. You can also use it for machine learning experiments. In this article I will guide you through the three steps of creating a simple […]
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How to build a JavaScript API in 2023
Hello everyone. A big part of making things easy for developers is selecting the right tools for the job and when it comes to quickly and easily creating APIs these are my tools of choice: NodeJS, ExpressJS and Postman to test our API. UPDATE: I’ve recently started using Insomnia as my API testing tool and […]
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JavaScript tricks you didn’t know about
JavaScript is currently one of the most popular programming languages in the world. In recent years it has seen rapid improvements with the popularization of front-end frameworks and the creation of NodeJS. Today I’m going to share some of the lesser known Javascript tricks/features for the Javascript developers out there. 1- Double bang We all […]
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Building Peakcaster: Part 1
What do we want to build? My friend and I decided, after doing some research that we would like to build a tool to help podcasters create quick videos from their podcasts. We saw that there are a few other companies out there doing something similar but we think that what we are building (Peakcaster) […]
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What is it like to be a junior web developer?
Whether you are about to finish university, just started coding or you are about to start a new development job, asking what it is like to be a web developer is a very natural question. I asked myself that very same question from the second I realized that I could get a job for writing […]
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How to read a stack trace in JavaScript
Picture this: As if seeing something similar to that popping up in your console wasn’t bad enough, picture not being able to find an answer for the issue on Stack Overflow (you’d probably find a solution for this one, but I needed an example for this article😅). In those situations you might not have any […]
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What is a GET request?
If you just got started with web development you might have heard GET requests. It might have happened while you worked with a back-end language like PHP or while you were trying to connect to an API. To put it in simple terms, the HTTP GET request is a way for the HTTP protocol to […]
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How to create a parallax website from scratch in 2019 – Part 3
Welcome to the third and final part of this series on how to create a parallax website from scratch in 2019. On the first two parts we went over how to create the HTML portion of our parallax website, then we used some CSS in order to style it and now we’ll finally add some […]
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