What’s the Document Object Model, and why you should know how to use it.

by Leonardo Maldonado What’s the Document Object Model, and why you should know how to use it. The DOM explained by an easy way. Photo by Remi Yuan [https://unsplash.com/@remiyuan] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/photos/FEhYjpC1axQ]So, you’ve studied HTML, you’ve created your first tags, learned about CSS, made beautiful forms, amazing buttons, responsive pages

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How to submit a pull request

Let’s say you wrote some code on the develop branch. You’re done with what you were working on, and you want to merge it into the master branch. But you don’t know whether the code you’ve written is good enough. You want someone to review your code before you merge

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How to tackle CSS specificity issues and when to use the !important keyword

by Muna Mohamed How to tackle CSS specificity issues and when to use the !important keyword A Case Study Recently, there was a Twitter poll floating around where the user asked their followers a question about CSS specificity . Unfortunately, I was unable to find the original tweet (comment below

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How not to be afraid of GIT anymore

Understanding the machinery to whittle away the uncertainty Been here before? (web comic by XKCD [https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/git.png])What is Git anyway? “It’s a version control system.” Why do I need it? “To version control, silly.” Alright, alright, I’m not being too helpful, yet. Here’s the basic idea: As projects get too large,

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How to perform CRUD operations using vanilla JavaScript

by Zafar Saleem Nowadays there are a number of JavaScript frameworks around such as React, Angular, Vue and so on. They all offer a simple and easy approach towards the development of web applications, especially SPAs. However, many JavaScript learners tend to begin learning these frameworks and know little about

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How to deploy your Cloud Foundry app with (almost) zero fear using Travis CI

by Robin Bobbitt How to deploy your Cloud Foundry app with (almost) zero fear using Travis CI Photo by William Canady from PexelsApplication deployments to the cloud should be painless. We should be able to deploy new code continuously, as often as we want, without fear. The blue-green deployment [https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/devguide/deploy-apps/blue-green.html]

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VS Code snippets: the most powerful tool to boost your coding productivity

by Sam Williams VS Code snippets: the most powerful tool to boost your coding productivity Write more code with fewer keystrokes Photo by Dlanor S [https://unsplash.com/@dlanor_s?utm_source=medium&utm_medium=referral] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com?utm_source=medium&utm_medium=referral]Everyone wants to be able to produce more code in fewer keystrokes. Arrow functions in JavaScript have become incredibly popular recently

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Get more done by reading less: how over-consuming content might be hurting your career, and how to…

by Ken Rogers Get more done by reading less: how over-consuming content might be hurting your career, and how to fix It Photo by Janko Ferlič [https://unsplash.com/photos/sfL_QOnmy00?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/search/photos/book?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] One of my goals this year is to read less. Not that I don’t think reading is important, actually

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