Year: 2019
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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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How to create a parallax website from scratch in 2019 – Part 2
Hello there! Today in Part 2(Part 1) of this series, we’ll dive into the styling of our website by using CSS. By the end of this tutorial, we’ll have a responsive webpage that makes use of the parallax effect. Cool stuff!😀 CSS Let’s start by creating a style file and including it into our HTML […]
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How to save Git changes using Git stash
Sometimes we have been coding for a while and made quite a few changes to your source code but for some reason you need to checkout a different branch and you don’t want to commit the code changes you made. That’s a great use case for the git stash command. Today I’ll list out some […]
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Top 3 reasons to develop a chrome extension
There is a big push to focus on mobile experiences nowadays and that is all well and good, but desktops and laptops are not dead yet. Most people who work in an office, spend the majority of their time on one of those devices. One of the ways to reach these users is by building […]
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How to develop a chrome extension – Beginner’s guide
Hello there! Today we are going to quickly build a chrome extension from scratch. Chrome extensions are programs that can extend the functionality of the Google Chrome web browser. Examples of extensions could be: an extension that notifies you of a new email while you are browsing the web, or another extension that delivers you […]
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How to create promotional images for chrome extensions
Today we are going to create three promotional images for your Google Chrome extension. These images are used when uploading your extension to the Chrome Web Store and having good images helps your extension stand out and get more downloads. By the end of this tutorial we’ll create images that look like the ones below.< […]
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How to create a website from scratch in 2019 – Part 1
Hey everyone! Today we’ll start a three part series on how to build a website completely from scratch. At the end of this series, you should be able to build cool looking websites that can even fetch data from external APIs. This series suited for any beginner that is trying to find an easy way […]
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