PROGRESSIVE WEB APPS

Progressive Web Apps (PWA’s) are becoming more widespread every day and when you see their benefits it’s easy to understand why.

PWA’s are proven to bring about higher customer engagement, higher customer retention, and increased conversion rates to your web app.

So, what are PWA’s?

To put it simply, PWA’s are basically phone and desktop apps that are built with web technologies and downloaded through the browser.

This is crazy powerful.

Think about it: You no longer will have to deal with app store approvals, separate code-bases, different deployment methods and everything else that comes along with native apps.

Instead, you build a PWA…

CROSS-PLATFORM DEVELOPMENT

Let’s entertain a simple scenario for a second:

You’re a solo developer. You have an idea. You tell the idea to your friends. They like the idea. You design a prototype. You spend months programming it and then the time comes for you to release it. You push it out to the world and share it with everyone you know. Then, you get the all too familiar question…

When is this coming to Android?

So you stop for a minute and think, “hmm… it seems people want this on Android too. What would this actually take to implement”? …

Deno is a Javascript / TypeScript runtime looking to take the place of Node.js as the status quo. It boasts a wide slew of features and has a lot of hype around the project with almost 68,000 stars on Github:

There’s a bit of an unspoken adage in software development that goes a little something like this…

If you’re not embarrassed by code you wrote 6 months ago, you aren’t growing.

And I’ve never found this to be more true than when I take another look at my personal website. You see of all my projects, my personal site is the one that I’m forced to come back to time and time again. That’s because it’s my own little corner of the internet. It represents my style, my ideas and my projects. It’s mine.

So you can understand how a…

SOLO DEVELOPMENT

Introduction

The container pattern is a concept introduced in the Unstated-Next library. This pattern thinks about states as varieties of Containers that hold a modular slice of the global application state. To provide this state you create a Context across your application, then access it through hooks.

Compared to something like Redux, this Container pattern offers a Hook-centric way to manage state. It’s easier to learn, scales with your application well , and provides an intuitive way to think about global state. Here’s how it works.

What’s the Container Pattern?

The container pattern is a methodology in which instead of having all your global state…

INCREASE YOUR PRODUCTIVITY

Yes, I actively use two different installations of Google Chrome. I do this because when paired with the other hotkeys in my workflow, having 2 installations of Chrome helps me work more efficiently and with less clutter. This article will explain the technique so you can do the same:

The Problem

We’re moving to a time where more and more applications are being served as webpages rather than desktop applications. This is great because it allows instantaneous access to the tools you want without having to download them, but this has some downsides too.

One major downside is that it’s much harder…

As we approach late august, the time is coming for college classes to kick off again. Whether your school is online or in-person, I believe there’s a handful of things you can do to make this year a success. This article is a collection of tips for computer science majors to help them have a successful year. This information has been curated from my four years of learning at university, along with various pieces of advice from other students, graduates, and professors.

1. You Don’t Need to Know How to Program Yet

And here’s proof!

Trust me, you don’t need to know how to program going into a CS degree…