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Ifeanyi Dike wrote

Useful React Hooks That You Can Use In Your Projects

React class-based components are messy, confusing, hard for humans and machines. But before React 16.8, class-based components were mandatory for any projects that require states, life-cycle methods, and many other important functionalities. All these changed with the introduction of hooks in React 16.8. Hooks are game-changers. They have simplified React, made it neater, easier to write and debug, and also reduced the learning curve. Read more…

Deven Rathore wrote

Building A Video Streaming App With Nuxt.js, Node And Express

Instead of sending the entire video at once, a video is sent as a set of smaller chunks that make up the full video. This explains why videos buffer when watching a video on slow broadband because it only plays the chunks it has received and tries to load more. In this article, Deven Rathore will build a video streaming app using Nuxt.js and Node.js. Specifically, you’ll build a server-side Node.js app that will handle fetching and streaming videos, generating thumbnails for your videos, and serving captions and subtitles. Read more…

Manuela Langella wrote

Mid-Century Modern Illustration: Creating A Cover Book With Illustrator And InDesign

Do you have a sketch lying around and want to bring it to life? If you’re inspired by mid-century art as much as Manuela Langella, you’ll love the process and end result of this tutorial. Today, Manuela will show you how to create a beautiful cover design inspired by the 1950s. Specifically, the cover will be for a children’s book, so you’re going to create a well-known character: Little Red Riding Hood. Dig out your sketch and fire up Illustrator to get started! Read more…

Ayesha Ambreen wrote

How To Use Spaces In Web Design With Gestalt Principles

Design is a creative field where forms and space intermingle to lend us a variety of experiences. Whatever design we come across, our brains are hardwired to transform that piece into simpler components made up of basic shapes and forms that are at play with the spaces. When the elements are arranged in an orderly manner, the intelligent use of spaces draws our eye to the most noticeable space –be it positive or negative. As much as the positive space seems to dominate the negative counterpart, both are used in equilibrium to tell a harmonious, coherent, and a seamlessly complete story. But what kind of story do spaces tell in web design? Read more…

Manish Dudharejia wrote

How To Convert An Infographic Into A Gifographic Using Adobe Photoshop

For years, marketers have relied on images, videos, and infographics to better sell products and services. The importance of visual media has increased further with the rise of the Internet and consequently, of social media. Gifographics are the next step in the evolution of infographics. In this article, Manish Dudharejia will take a closer look at the evolution of infographics and how a static infographic can be animated using Adobe Photoshop, so some Photoshop knowledge (at least the basics) is required. Read more…

Leonardo Losoviz wrote

Sharing Data Among Multiple Servers Through AWS S3

When creating a multi-step form in which a file is uploaded and manipulated, if the application is running on several servers behind a load balancer, then we need to make sure that the file is available all throughout the execution of the process, for whichever server handles the process at each step. In this article, Leonardo Losoviz will solve this issue by creating a repository accessible to all servers where to upload the files, based on AWS S3. Read more…