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I wonder how many startup ideas have something to do with air travel? 🤔
It’s such a big industry with so many pain points its no wonder that it inspires ideas for building new products. Here’s the thing about a …
I wonder how many startup ideas have something to do with air travel? 🤔
It’s such a big industry with so many pain points its no wonder that it inspires ideas for building new products. Here’s the thing about a …
JSON documents are everywhere today, but they are rarely structured the way you want them to be. They often include too much data, have weirdly named fields, or place the data in unnecessary nested objects. Graph-Relational Object Queries (GROQ) …
You’re probably used to fetching data in React using axios or fetch. The usual method of handling data fetching is to:
I was trying to research the landscape of these the other day — And by research, I mean light Googling and asking on Twitter. Weirdly, very little comes to mind when thinking about spam detection APIs. I mean …
Data is available everywhere nowadays, whether it’s in a plain text file, a REST API, an online Google sheet… you name it! It’s that variety of context that makes building graphs more than simply having a database in your local …
Cassie Evans showcases some really nifty web design ideas and explores using the API provided by the company her team over at Clearleft recently hired to cover their building’s roof with solar panels. Cassie outlines her journey designing a webpage …
Let’s say you’re rocking a JAMstack-style site (no server-side languages in use), but you want to do something rather dynamic like send an email. Not a problem! That’s the whole point of JAMstack. It’s not just static hosting. …
A spreadsheet has always been a strong (if fairly literal) analogy for a database. A database has tables, which is like a single spreadsheet. Imagine a spreadsheet for tracking RSVPs for a wedding. Across the top, column titles like …
I want you to take a second and think about Twitter, and think about it in terms of scale. Twitter has 326 million users. Collectively, we create ~6,000 tweets every second. Every minute, that’s 360,000 tweets created. That …
Jamie Corkhill has written this wonderful post about Node and I think it’s perhaps one of the best technical articles I’ve ever read. Not only is it jam-packed with information for folks like me who aren’t writing JavaScript everyday, it …
Here’s a possibility! Perhaps you are testing your JavaScript with a framework like Jasmine. That’s nice because you can write lots of tests to cover your application, get a nice little UI to see the output, and even integrate …