September 26, 2019 — In this article, we discuss “Frankenstein Migration” which is a new, framework-agnostic approach to the process of migration that allows using the same mechanism to migrate to pretty much any framework of your choice. Read More…

August 22, 2019 — In this article, we will revisit what testing means by a simple analogy, explore concepts in software architecture, and some arguments as to why you might benefit from an attitude of minimalism for your testing process. Read More…

July 30, 2019 — This article concludes a three-part series about the trials and tribulations of designing and writing a basic web application with vanilla JavaScript. In part one we covered the why, part two dealt mostly with the how and this part concludes by looking at how the project was … Read More…

July 25, 2019 — In the first article of this series, your author, a JavaScript novice, had set themselves the goal of designing and coding a basic web app to organize team-based games. In this second part, we are going to concentrate on how the application ‘In/Out’ actually got made. Read More…

July 23, 2019 — 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. Read More…

July 16, 2019 — Scrapy is a popular open-source Python framework for writing scalable web scrapers. In this tutorial, we’ll take you step by step through using Scrapy to gather a list of Oscar-winning movies from Wikipedia. Read More…

April 26, 2019 — Monitoring for changes to the DOM is sometimes needed in complex web apps and frameworks. By means of explanations along with interactive demos, this article will show you how you can use the MutationObserver API to make observing for DOM changes relatively easy. Read More…

February 26, 2019 — One of the key advantages of Vue.js is that it plays nicely with other code: it is easy to embed progressively into other applications, but it is also easy to wrap up non-Vue code into Vue. This article explores this second advantage, covering three distinct types of … Read More…

November 9, 2018 — Have you ever considered whether CSS Grid can actually replace the need for CSS frameworks or third-party component libraries? In doing so, Rachel Andrew discovered a range of reasons people use a third-party framework and the positive and negative things about doing so. Read More…