Published in CodeX·PinnedMember-onlyWhy I No Longer Use CSS FrameworksLearning to write proper HTML and CSS made my life easier. — Like many web developers, I started using Bootstrap CSS around eight years ago. There were multiple reasons: I needed to quickly build a working prototype and I didn’t want to worry about styling it. I wanted to start creating responsive web applications, and using Bootstrap seemed the easiest way to…Web Development8 min readWeb Development8 min read
Published in CodeX·Feb 2, 2022Member-onlyResponsive Design Is More Than You ThinkHint: it’s not just about the screen size. — When designing websites and web applications, most web developers take into account the fact that they can be viewed on a variety of devices, from small mobile phones to big screens with 4K or larger resolutions. …Web Development9 min readWeb Development9 min read
Published in codeburst·Jun 2, 2020Member-onlyInstalling a Node.js service on a web serverTips for enhancing a traditional PHP/MySQL web application with a Node.js service. While most of the web runs on the traditional PHP/MySQL stack, many new websites and web application use newer technologies, such as Node.js. A few years ago I wrote about the advantages of a solution which combines these…Nodejs9 min readNodejs9 min read
Published in codeburst·May 18, 2020Member-onlyDeploying web applications using gitA practical guide for deploying web applications from the git repository for developers. The times where deploying an application to the server was done simply by copying files over FTP are long gone. Today there are many integrated CI/CD solutions which automate the deployment process and isolate you completely from…Web Development8 min readWeb Development8 min read
Published in codeburst·Nov 22, 2019Member-onlySimple Vue.js grid using named scoped slotsThe mechanism of slots in Vue.js makes it easier to create universal, reusable components. Slots are very powerful and at first may seem hard to use, especially the more advanced variants. …JavaScript7 min readJavaScript7 min read
Published in codeburst·Nov 7, 2019Member-onlyAutomatic routing in Vue.js applicationsOne of the things that I like about the Nuxt framework is its automatic routing capability. You just have to put all you page components into an appropriate folder structure and everything just works; you don’t have to write the rules for vue-router manually. Recently I started working on a…JavaScript7 min readJavaScript7 min read
Published in codeburst·Oct 21, 2019Member-onlyError handling in SPA applicationsError handling is often an afterthought, something that is implemented late in the development cycle, sometimes even when the application is already running in production. But including error handling early in the design stage has many benefits. …JavaScript12 min readJavaScript12 min read
Published in codeburst·Oct 7, 2019Member-onlyManaging SVG images in Vue.js applicationsIt’s hard to imagine a modern web application without SVG graphics in the form of icons, logos and other elements of the user interface. A few years ago the typical way of managing SVG images was to use special web fonts which served as collections of icons, for example glyphicons…JavaScript6 min readJavaScript6 min read
Published in codeburst·Sep 30, 2019Member-onlyNode.js, MySQL and async/awaitWriting asynchronous applications in Node.js can be hard to learn, but except for some really simple cases, it cannot be avoided. Accessing a database is an example of an operation which is asynchronous by nature. It means that you have to wait for the results of a query, but while…JavaScript6 min readJavaScript6 min read
Published in codeburst·Sep 12, 2019Member-onlyDependency injection container with hot-reloading in Node.jsOne thing that I’ve always liked about languages like PHP is that when you modify the code, you can immediately see the results — without recompiling or restarting the application. In JavaScript this is possible on the client side, thanks to webpack and its hot-reloading mechanism. Unfortunately, on the server…JavaScript6 min readJavaScript6 min read
