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Gatsby is a tool for creating static websites with React. It allows you to pull your data from virtually anywhere: content management systems (CMSs), Markdown files, APIs, and databases. Gatsby leverages GraphQL and webpack to combine your data and React code to generate static files for your web...
SERP stands for Search Engine Results Page. serpstack is an API that queries the result page of search engines and gives you a clean JSON response. Search engines like Google used to have straight-forward result listing which made scraping them a whole lot easier. Now, there’s videos, i...
In 2019, DevOps still remains something of a codeword: a sphere reserved to developers trained in writing complicated scripts for tools only they know how to use. Tools whose purpose is to make your life easier with automation, but somehow: take weeks to configure and launch ...
It's been a while since I wrote about Laravel and thought I should do something fun with it. In this tutorial, I will show you how to build a web-based chat application using Laravel and Vue.js quickly. With a simple step by step guide, you will be able to create a system that supports user authe...
I have some big news for the Scotch community. As of today, Scotch is joining the DigitalOcean family! This is a huge deal, and you probably have a ton of questions. In the short version, DigitalOcean is extremely community driven and is committ...
At a particular point or another, you may want to build a simple bot for scraping website data. For example, on a link sharing website, you may want users to be able to see a meta preview of the what the shared link is about without the user needing to waste time visiting the URL. You fire...
Who doesn't love beer? When you drink a great beer you want to tell someone. You definitely want to be able to remind yourself of the great beers you've had. Enter Brewstr, a beer rating application that allows you to enter a beer you're drinking and give it a rating. This way, you know what to g...
tl;dr: A couple of years ago, just like you, I was trying to learn all these power user workflows. Today is your lucky day because I am going to teach you how to deal with lines, how to juggle with words, and how to use multiple cursors with...
Vettery is an online hiring marketplace that connects job seekers with over 20,000 companies across the US, Canada, and the UK. With an active profile on Vettery, hiring managers can send interview requests directly to your inbox when your background and preferences match what they’re looking f...
In November of this year, Instagram introduced a new feature to remove likes from your Feed. They chose to roll out this feature gradually and test in production to fully understand the impact of their decision. How do users react? Does it impact the way they use the application? Does it impact t...
This post is an introductory guide to JavaScript end-to-end testing, using a tool called Testim. End-to-end testing (or E2E Testing, for short) is one of the many types of automated tests that currently exist for web applications. This type of testing occupies a somewhat peculiar place in the who...
I was at a conference this year and they handed attendees meal tickets for the after-party. It was a super amazing conference and I loved meeting everyone there, but dang... I forgot my meal ticket at the hotel and was starving while everyone else ate at the after-party! They served good looking ...
Congratulations, you're starting out on the Cassandra distributed database, a favorite choice among architects and developers for its performance, scalability, continuous uptime, and global data distribution. Whether you plan on using it for ecommerce, IoT, fraud, or anything else, it's importan...
In the past, we looked at adding an extra security layer to our applications by using actionable data from the users IP address. Today, we'll build a demo of a simple widget that we can place on our web...
The Answer JavaScript as a language doesn’t support multiple return values. In writing React code, your JSX (JavaScript XML) eventually gets transpiled into vanilla JavaScript. When this happens, parallel JSX elements are transpiled into multiple return values which isn’t a feature ...
