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About The Author Michael is a full stack engineer who is passionate about solving real business problems with code. He is a Lead Software Engineer at The Knot Worldwide as well … More about Michael ↬ Choosing to use a new technology can often bring much desired productivity, security, and efficiency to a project. It […]

How to Build a Developer Blog with Gatsby and MDX – SitePoint Skip to main content Free JavaScript Book! Write powerful, clean and maintainable JavaScript. RRP $11.95 You can easily publish your ideas to sites like Dev.to, Hashnode or Medium, but the ideal is to have full control over your own content. There’s an ever-growing […]

About The Author Juggling between three languages on a daily basis, Iris is known for her love of linguistics, arts, web design and typography, as well as her goldmine of … More about Iris ↬ In a new series of posts, we highlight some of the useful tools and techniques for developers and designers. Last […]

How to Migrate Your App From Express to Fastify – SitePoint Skip to main content Free JavaScript Book! Write powerful, clean and maintainable JavaScript. RRP $11.95 Express has long been the most popular framework for developing web applications with Node.js. Unfortunately, this framework hasn’t seen much active development in recent years. This means that it […]

About The Author Victor is a Philadelphia based researcher, author, and speaker. His book Design for the Mind, is available from Manning Publications. Victor frequently writes … More about Victor ↬ UX practitioners can play an important role in growing the UX maturity of the organizations and products they work with. This article, the second […]

If you could do one thing to your marketing to make a sustainable difference in your ability to impact the business, it’s to change what you measure. —Samantha Stone You’ve probably figured this out by now, but measuring open rates and making fancy marketing dashboards will only get you so far. If you really want […]

COVID-19 has reshaped the world—and our economy—in fundamental ways. Business leaders and marketers worldwide have been considering how best to position themselves, their products, and their services, not only to survive but also to emerge stronger. For many, the threat of an economic crisis inspires fear and uncertainty. But research shows that during downturns, 14% […]

About The Author Akshay Ranganath is a Solution Architect at Cloudinary responsible for bringing customers on-board, helping them create work-flow for media management and media … More about Akshay ↬ How do we get media performance right while staying within performance budgets? Let’s take a look at the recent stats and data around performance budgets, […]

With the COVID-19 pandemic driving more people to work remotely, many marketers have been trying to spruce up their home offices. It’s more than just an exercise in finding the right aesthetic: A good home office setup can boost efficiency and promote problem solving. So, how should you decorate? A recent infographic (below) from HomeCity […]

About The Author Front-end developer based in Lagos, Nigeria. He enjoys converting designs into code and building things for the web. More about Timi ↬ Reactivity is the ability for a variable (array, string, number, object, etc) to update when its value or any other variable that it makes reference to is changed after declaration. […]

Squeaky Portraits: Having Fun with the CSS path() Function – SitePoint Skip to main content Free JavaScript Book! Write powerful, clean and maintainable JavaScript. RRP $11.95 With the Chrome 88 release, we got support for clip-path: path(). That means it now has support in “most” major browsers! With path(), we’re able to use path definitions […]

About The Author Stephanie Eckles is a front-end focused SWE at Microsoft. She’s also the author of ModernCSS.dev which provides modern solutions to old CSS problems as in-depth … More about Stephanie ↬ Eleventy (aka 11ty) is rising in the ranks among static site generators. This Node-based builder is attractive due to its zero-config starting […]

How to Use JSON Data Fields in MySQL Databases – SitePoint Skip to main content Free JavaScript Book! Write powerful, clean and maintainable JavaScript. RRP $11.95 My article “SQL vs NoSQL: The Differences” noted that the line between SQL and NoSQL databases has become increasingly blurred, with each camp adopting features from the other. MySQL […]

About The Author Aaron Hans makes web applications fast and accessible for all users. Leading the team responsible for the State of California’s public pandemic response … More about Aaron ↬ One of the drivers of the popularity of headless options is that expectations for the quality of user experience are constantly going up. We […]

A Beginner’s Guide to Roam Research – SitePoint Skip to main content Free JavaScript Book! Write powerful, clean and maintainable JavaScript. RRP $11.95 Roam Research is a friction-free, note-taking and knowledge-management application. It’s getting a lot of attention, and the label “game changer” has been used. You’re likely reading this article because you’ve heard the […]

In a new short series of posts, we highlight some of the useful tools and techniques for developers and designers. Recently we’ve covered CSS Auditing Tools and CSS Generators, and this time we look into reliable accessible components: from tabs and tables to toggles and tooltips. Table of Contents Below you’ll find an alphabetical list […]

9 Best JavaScript and TypeScript ORMs for 2021 – SitePoint Skip to main content Free JavaScript Book! Write powerful, clean and maintainable JavaScript. RRP $11.95 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 […]

Wondering what’s happenin’ at Smashing? Well, we’ve been busy. Here’s a little story of how we removed floating labels, improved performance on mobile, and launched a new series of articles. Oh, and how you can contribute to Smashing, too. There is always something happening behind the scenes at Smashing. Over the last months, we’ve been […]

About The Author Stephen Roe writes about web design at Sitejet. When he isn’t plotting world domination with his clients, he’s studying the intersection of culture, … More about Stephen ↬ The secret to growing a successful web design business is thinking of design as a service, not a product. When you focus on recurring […]

How to Use Mobile Emulation Mode in Chrome Skip to main content Free JavaScript Book! Write powerful, clean and maintainable JavaScript. RRP $11.95 Website testing has become increasingly complex. The days of checking functionality in a couple of browsers are long gone. Your latest masterpiece must be rigorously evaluated on a range of mobile, tablet […]

About The Author Carmine Zaccagnino is a Flutter and Linux enthusiast, author of the Programming Flutter book with the Pragmatic Bookshelf. Blogs more, tweets less. More about Carmine ↬ Flutter has been transitioning from a cross-platform mobile development SDK for Android/iOS into a tool that allows you to run the same code natively in a […]

About The Author Carie Fisher is a digital accessibility developer and trainer who is passionate about inclusive front-end code and promoting diversity in tech. More about Carie ↬ How do we know which patterns are good, better, best when it comes to accessibility? Is it better to use an established pattern/library or create new ones? […]

Serverless Functions: A Guide to Usage and Deployment – SitePoint Skip to main content Free JavaScript Book! Write powerful, clean and maintainable JavaScript. RRP $11.95 Over the last few years, serverless functions (sometimes also referred to as “serverless” or “serverless computing”) have become a popular technology. However, there’s still a lot of confusion around the […]

About The Author Juggling between three languages on a daily basis, Iris is known for her love of linguistics, arts, web design and typography, as well as her goldmine of … More about Iris ↬ In a new short series of posts, we highlight some of the useful tools and techniques for developers and designers. […]