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Frontend — Useful JavaScript Data Grid Libraries — Smashing Magazine

Useful JavaScript Data Grid Libraries — Smashing Magazine

In this article, Zara Cooper provides a rundown of some popular data grid libraries that would be a great addition to any data-heavy application and shares recommendations on what factors to consider when choosing a suitable data grid library.

ZCZara CooperZara Cooper·September 1, 2022Frontend
Performance — How To Build A Localized Website With Hugo And Strapi — Smashing Magazine

How To Build A Localized Website With Hugo And Strapi — Smashing Magazine

Strapi is an open-source headless content management system (CMS) built with Node.js, and Hugo builds sites pretty fast, with average site builds completed in a second or less. In this tutorial, Zara Cooper explains how to use Strapi’s Internationalization feature to create content in multiple languages. You’ll also learn how to create a Hugo site that consumes localized content from Strapi.

ZCZara CooperZara Cooper·July 5, 2022Performance
Frontend — How To Build A Group Chat App With Vanilla JS, Twilio And Node.js — Smashing Magazine

How To Build A Group Chat App With Vanilla JS, Twilio And Node.js — Smashing Magazine

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a group chat app. You will build a backend app using Node.js that will make group chats, authorize chat participants, and maintain sessions for them. The front-end will be built using Vanilla JS, HTML and CSS. It will allow users to log in, make new groups, invite friends, and trade messages. By the end, you should have a working app where multiple pa

ZCZara CooperZara Cooper·June 2, 2022Frontend
Career & Teams — Reasons To Build A CRM-Powered Website For Your Business — Smashing Magazine

Reasons To Build A CRM-Powered Website For Your Business — Smashing Magazine

Neglecting to cater your business website to your customers is not only detrimental to your sales but can also hurt your team’s productivity and operations. Integrating a CRM with your business website has numerous benefits. You equip various departments within your company with tools to organize and automate work and improve efficiency. In this article, Zara Cooper explains what these benefits ar

ZCZara CooperZara Cooper·September 16, 2021Career & Teams
Frontend — How To Build An E-Commerce Site With Angular 11, Commerce Layer And Paypal — Smashing Magazine

How To Build An E-Commerce Site With Angular 11, Commerce Layer And Paypal — Smashing Magazine

Having an e-commerce store is crucial for any store owner as more and more customers are turning to online shopping. In this article, Zara Cooper will cover how to build an e-commerce store using Angular 11. You shall use Commerce Layer as our headless e-commerce API. Although there may be tonnes of ways to process payments, she’ll demonstrate how to use just one, Paypal.

ZCZara CooperZara Cooper·July 30, 2021Frontend
Performance — You Can Do That With A JavaScript Data Grid? — Smashing Magazine

You Can Do That With A JavaScript Data Grid? — Smashing Magazine

Data grids need to be easy to understand, engaging, responsive, and accessible. They need to perform well and load data fast. However, building a data grid that meets these standards from scratch can take a long time and be a huge undertaking. In this article, you’ll get to see some pretty groundbreaking things you can achieve with modern JavaScript grids. You’ll learn how these data tables solve

ZCZara CooperZara Cooper·July 15, 2021Performance
Frontend — Create A Responsive Dashboard With Angular Material And ng2-Charts — Smashing Magazine

Create A Responsive Dashboard With Angular Material And ng2-Charts — Smashing Magazine

With Angular Material and ng2-charts, you can take advantage of schematics to cut down the effort and time you may spend building a dashboard. Schematics in Angular 9 are code generators that can create components and patterns in projects using predetermined templates and layouts. In this article, Zara Cooper explains how to take advantage of schematics in Angular Material and ng2-charts to substa

ZCZara CooperZara Cooper·July 27, 2020Frontend
Frontend — How To Create Better Angular Templates With Pug — Smashing Magazine

How To Create Better Angular Templates With Pug — Smashing Magazine

Pug is a template engine that allows you to write cleaner templates with less repetition. In Angular, you can use Pug to write component templates and improve a project’s development workflow. In this article, Zara Cooper In will cover how you — as an Angular developer — can use Pug to write better templates more efficiently. You’ll learn how to install Pug in your Angular apps and transition exis

ZCZara CooperZara Cooper·May 28, 2020Frontend
SRE & Ops — Create Your Free Developer Blog Using Hugo And Firebase — Smashing Magazine

Create Your Free Developer Blog Using Hugo And Firebase — Smashing Magazine

Writing is a crucial skill every software developer should cultivate. And writing on your own technical blog can have immense benefits to your career as a software developer and help you cultivate your skills and expertise. Creating and hosting a technical blog provides an opportunity to do just that. In this article, Zara Cooper will take a look at how to deploy a blog for free and with minimal e

ZCZara CooperZara Cooper·April 6, 2020SRE & Ops