Virtual reality is a new immersive medium for exploring content, whether that content is a film (Life of Pi), a game (Beat Saber) or a social experience (as depicted in Ready Player One). Despite its novelty, VR doesn’t require a drastically different toolset to design for — the same tools we use for web game development, 3D modeling, and others are all still applicable. In this tutorial, Alvin Wan leverages your familiarity with web development to get started with VR development.
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In this article, Ben Frain concludes a three-part series about the trials and tribulations of designing and writing a basic web application with vanilla JavaScript. In part one he covered the why, part two dealt mostly with the how and this part concludes by looking at how the project was drawn to a close and what was learned from the experience. Ben will cover turning a basic web application into a Progressive Web Application (PWA) and ‘shipping’ the application before looking at the most valuable lessons learned by making the simple web application In/Out.
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In the first article of this series, your author, a JavaScript novice, had set themselves the goal of designing and coding a basic web application. The ‘app’ was to be called ‘In/Out’ — an application to organize team-based games. In this article, Ben Frain is going to concentrate on how the application ‘In/Out’ actually got made.
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You don’t need to be a Computer Science graduate or know a JavaScript framework to create a Progressive Web Application. With some HTML and CSS knowledge and basic competency with JavaScript, you have all the skills you need. In three parts, Ben Frain is going to share the journey of designing and building a simple Progressive Web Application called ‘In/Out’, built without a framework. You can view it here.
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In JavaScript, the Number type cannot safely represent integer values larger than 253. This limitation has forced developers to use inefficient workarounds and third-party libraries. BigInt is a new data type intended to fix that. In this article, Faraz Kelhini will take a good look at BigInt and see how it can help overcome the limitations of the Number type in JavaScript.
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When you are still early on in your programming career, digging into the source code of open source libraries and frameworks can be a daunting endeavor. Reading source code is difficult at first but it becomes easier with time. The goal is not to understand everything but to come away with a different perspective and new knowledge.In this article, Carl Mungazi shares how he got over his fear and began using source code to improve his knowledge and skills. He also uses Redux to demonstrate how he approaches breaking down a library.
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In this second part of our tutorial on building Sketch plugins, Matt Curtis will pick up where he left off with the building of our user interface, and then he’ll move on to the key feature of actually generating our layer mosaics and optimizing the final plugin code. You will learn how to connect the user interface to the core plugin code and how to implement the plugin’s main features. Last but not least, you’ll also learn how to optimize the code and the way the plugin works.
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In this two-part article, you’ll learn how to build your our own Sketch plugins from scratch — giving you the skills needed to accomplish tasks much faster, easier, and better.
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Slots are a powerful tool for creating reusable components in Vue.js, though they aren’t the simplest feature to understand. Vue’s slots take component-based development to a whole new level, and while in this article you will discover a lot of great ways slots can be used, there are countless more out there. Today, Joseph Zimmerman takes a look at how to use slots and some examples of how they can be used in your Vue applications.
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The user experience from a developer point of view is seriously lacking. We don’t get any helpful warnings when we misspell words, misuse APIs or, well, anything, really! We’ve already seen how we can implement the basic parts of our validation library, and how to add all the nice-to-have features we needed. In this final part of this series, Kristofer Giltvedt Selbekk will focus on improving the user experience for the people that will use our validation library: the developers.
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