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Attend JSNation Live Conference June 2020

With all of the shutdowns, lockdowns, and measures taken to slow the spread of a certain virus, many of us lost our chance to go to a developer conference, at least for a while, because most of them

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How to Install and Use Chatra

Still provide phone support? Have you ever thought about the live chat effectiveness for your website? While the majority of people avoid phone conversations and lack time to read emails, live chat ca

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Building Your First Angular App

To avoid confusion, Angular 1 and all its releases are combined in a short name AngularJS, and Angular 2 and all subsequent versions are usually referred to simply as Angular. As a matter of fact, Angular 6 is already released. There’s a great demand for Angular 4 developers as well as for those who use other releases, so, you don’t have to instantly migrate to a newer release just to keep up with the market.

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JavaScript's Tilde: Its Real Use Is No Mystery

A while back I wrote an article titled “The Great Mystery of the Tilde” where I tried to explain what the ~ (tilde) operator did in JavaScript. When trying to demystify what it was, I ended up perpetuating a lot of misinformation. I’m here to fix that today.

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How to Debug Android Chrome From Your Windows PC

Debugging mobile websites is next to impossible when all you have is your phone, but if you have a Windows PC, you can use Google Chrome’s developer tools to connect to your Android phone and debug it from there, making the experience infinitely better. In this video, I’ll show you how to get set up to do that.

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Pure CSS Slide-Down Animation

Sometimes something seems like it should be really easy, but it turns out to be extremely difficult. The case we’ll be checking out today is creating a slide-down animation using purely CSS. What could be so hard about that, right? Note: I’m aware this is a JavaScript site, but we’re all front-end developers here, so I’m sure this will appeal to many of you.

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Vue, Test Coverage, and Drag-and-Drop

In keeping with the latest trend for this website, I haven’t been writing much content for it. As usual, though, I’ve been writing for other blogs on a variety of topics, most of which are connected to Vue in some way, but there are some that have nothing to do with Vue. Take a look below.

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More Vue for You; Not So Much Webpack

So I’m a total liar/failure/jerk/whatever-word-you-want-to-use. It’s been about 7 1/2 months since I promised to do an in-depth course on webpack – February 22, 2017 to be exact – and I’ve hardly touc

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Teaching Kids JavaScript

Lots of kids are starting to learn to code these days, and I’m proud to join the movement to get even more kids coding. While Scratch is a popular starter language for younger kids, we’ve seen that when kids get to about 10-11, transitioning them to Javascript is a great next step.