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As a React.js developer, what is React Native like?
August 30, 2021
- 2 min
If you are a React developer you may have considered using React Native, one of the most popular frameworks for creating cross-platform…
Using Recoil for State Management
February 18, 2021
- 3 min
Recoil is a package made by Facebook which helps manage state in a React app. It is minimal and effective for smaller to medium projects…
The Easiest Way to Use Icons in React
September 23, 2020
- 2 min
The react-icons project provides a developer-friendly way to use thousands of open source icons in any React project. The great thing is…
Setting up SSL without a load balancer on Amazon ECS
July 18, 2020
- 3 min
I was using ECS Fargate to serve a NodeJS API for a project, but Fargate essentially requires the use of a load balancer which costs $16 a…
Publishing to npm using GitHub Actions
June 28, 2020
- 4 min
GitHub Actions present a great way to automate tasks. In this case, we are setting up a way to update a React component library, zati, on…
Favorite VSCode Extensions
March 14, 2020
- 3 min
VSCode is the most popular code editor currently, thanks in part to its Marketplace for extensions. Most of the following list is…
How to find your current city using Bash or Node.js
January 12, 2020
- 1 min
We look at creating a script, using bash or Node.js, to calculate your current city using the IPinfo API (no sign-up required). Bash All it…
Creating a cron job with Node.js
January 05, 2020
- 1 min
The purpose is to create a script that can create a cronjob on a user's computer. There are many cron related libraries on npm, however node…
Saving a local file with Node.js
January 05, 2020
- 1 min
Find out how to store a JSON file on a user's machine and retrieve it later using Node.js. Creating the File Running these commands creates…
Creating a VSCode extension
December 03, 2019
- 2 min
Get up and running in minutes with this concise guide. Generating Project Files Install the pre-requisites and run the wizard: You will be…
Best underrated developer Chrome extensions
October 22, 2018
- 2 min
You might have heard of extensions like JSON Formatter, WhatFont, and ColorZilla. Let's look at some other ones that might be able to save…
Blaze through commits with git aliases
October 19, 2018
- 2 min
When you're forced to stop and make a commit after reaching a milestone, sometimes using Git can feel like a crutch rather than a tool. If…
Using SSH with two GitHub accounts
October 16, 2018
- 3 min
This guide walks through setting up two SSH keys on your Mac for use with two different GitHub accounts. You can then seamlessly push to and…
Free T-shirts during Hacktoberfest
October 02, 2018
- 1 min
DigitalOcean is sponsoring Hacktoberfest for the fifth year in a row. The first 50,000 people to sign up and make five pull requests in the…