One of the books that has most influenced my life is The Elements of Style by Strunk and White. I took a technical writing class in college where we closely studied its recommendations. The book is short and contains over 100 side-by-side comparisons of less effective and more effective writing. Reading it made me realize that I […]
React and Vue are the two most popular and widely used JavaScript frontend frameworks today. These frameworks allow developers to create a wide variety of web applications with JavaScript. Choosing between the two can be confusing if you are building a new application. Each has its own use case and serves different business needs. Most […]
The modern application we build today is sophisticated. Every time a user loads a webpage, their browser needs to download the bulk of data in order to display that page. A website may consist of millions of data and serve hundreds of API calls. For the data to move smoothly with zero delays between server […]
In this post, we will look at how and where you can host a web application. We will look at the main hosting platforms, their features, advantages, and disadvantages. In this article, we will also look at what parameters you can choose to host for and how to choose it. Often the deployment of your […]
Vue.js is a progressive open-source MVVM frontend JavaScript framework that is designed to be implemented incrementally since the core library focuses only on the presentation layer. Nevertheless, this framework is used for building UI (user interfaces) and complex single-page applications with modern tools and libraries to support them. It enables you to take advantage of […]
Laravel is a PHP-based backend framework. It follows the Model-View-Controller design pattern which explains many of Laravel’s pluses and minuses that we’ll detail further on. Users often credit Laravel with responsiveness, scalability, and a good community. But not everything is so simple. Like many backend frameworks, it can be abstract and unintuitive. That is if […]
Introduction Postgres (or PostgreSQL) is a powerful open-source relational database that supports both SQL (relational) and JSON (non-relational) querying. It was created by scientists from the University of California at Berkeley. It is a very stable object-oriented database management system. The PostgreSQL community has grown for over 20 years, contributing to its high stability, consistency, and […]
Introduction Material-UI (MUI) is a CSS framework that provides React components out-of-the-box and follows Google’s Material Design launched in 2014. MUI makes it possible to use different components to create a UI for a company’s web and mobile apps. Google uses Material Design to guarantee that no matter how users interact with the products they use, they will […]
Introduction Angular is a client-side open-source JavaScript-based front-end framework, which is used to build custom applications in HTML, CSS and Typescript. AngularJS was launched in 2009 by Misko Hevery and Adam Abrons as a project at Google. It is a front-end JavaScript framework, which was developed to build web-based dynamic applications easier, due to its […]
How to Create a Vue App: Introduction Today we’re talking about how to create a Vue app. There’s a myriad of ratings of the most popular programming languages and frameworks. Those are subjective and depend on many factors. How do we decide what’s more important, the total number of active users or the combined length […]