Zara Cooper is a software developer who enjoys sharing what she learns as a developer with others. When she’s got time to spare, she enjoys reading a good book over a cup of hot cocoa.
In this article, Zara Cooper provides a rundown of some popular data grid libraries that would be a great addition to any data-heavy application and shares recommendations on what factors to consider when choosing a suitable data grid library.
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Identify, compare, analyze and fix your Core Web Vitals scores to boost web performance of your sites. These tools will help you to do just that.
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Although Angular Material is one of the most popular component libraries which also offers a table, it lacks some crucial data handling features. In this article, Zara Cooper will examine some of the features of the Kendo UI for Angular Data Grid in comparison to those offered by the Angular Material Table.
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Strapi is an open-source headless content management system (CMS) built with Node.js, and Hugo builds sites pretty fast, with average site builds completed in a second or less. In this tutorial, Zara Cooper explains how to use Strapi’s Internationalization feature to create content in multiple languages. You’ll also learn how to create a Hugo site that consumes localized content from Strapi.
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In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a group chat app. You will build a backend app using Node.js that will make group chats, authorize chat participants, and maintain sessions for them. The front-end will be built using Vanilla JS, HTML and CSS. It will allow users to log in, make new groups, invite friends, and trade messages. By the end, you should have a working app where multiple participants can send messages in one group.
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Neglecting to cater your business website to your customers is not only detrimental to your sales but can also hurt your team’s productivity and operations. Integrating a CRM with your business website has numerous benefits. You equip various departments within your company with tools to organize and automate work and improve efficiency. In this article, Zara Cooper explains what these benefits are and why websites should be integrated with a CRM platform.
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Having an e-commerce store is crucial for any store owner as more and more customers are turning to online shopping. In this article, Zara Cooper will cover how to build an e-commerce store using Angular 11. You shall use Commerce Layer as our headless e-commerce API. Although there may be tonnes of ways to process payments, she’ll demonstrate how to use just one, Paypal.
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Data grids need to be easy to understand, engaging, responsive, and accessible. They need to perform well and load data fast. However, building a data grid that meets these standards from scratch can take a long time and be a huge undertaking. In this article, you’ll get to see some pretty groundbreaking things you can achieve with modern JavaScript grids. You’ll learn how these data tables solve the problems described earlier. Additionally, you’ll discover new ways to augment a data grid to make it engaging, responsive, and accessible. All this will be illustrated using Kendo UI Data Grids and their features.
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Netlify Forms is a form handling feature that receives submissions from HTML forms automatically. In this article, Zara Cooper will explain how you could use an Angular reactive form with Netlify Forms. Since Netlify Forms only work when deployed on Netlify, she’ll also illustrate how to deploy your app on Netlify Edge.
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With Angular Material and ng2-charts, you can take advantage of schematics to cut down the effort and time you may spend building a dashboard. Schematics in Angular 9 are code generators that can create components and patterns in projects using predetermined templates and layouts. In this article, Zara Cooper explains how to take advantage of schematics in Angular Material and ng2-charts to substantially reduce the time and work that goes into building a dashboard.
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Pug is a template engine that allows you to write cleaner templates with less repetition. In Angular, you can use Pug to write component templates and improve a project’s development workflow. In this article, Zara Cooper In will cover how you — as an Angular developer — can use Pug to write better templates more efficiently. You’ll learn how to install Pug in your Angular apps and transition existing apps that use HTML to use Pug.
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Writing is a crucial skill every software developer should cultivate. And writing on your own technical blog can have immense benefits to your career as a software developer and help you cultivate your skills and expertise. Creating and hosting a technical blog provides an opportunity to do just that. In this article, Zara Cooper will take a look at how to deploy a blog for free and with minimal effort using Hugo and Firebase.
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