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    Can we ban "Got a job" & "Got my first job" post on this sub? web developers

    January 21, 2021

    Can we ban "Got a job" & "Got my first job" post on this sub? web developers

    Can we ban "Got a job" & "Got my first job" post on this sub?

    Posted: 21 Jan 2021 11:11 AM PST

    The only time I see it pop up in my home is when it's about someone getting a job. Which is great and I'm glad, but it's once a week a thread gets posted with 500+ upvotes.

    I thought the point of this sub was for technical discussions on web dev?

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    Got my first job as Web Developer!

    Posted: 21 Jan 2021 05:50 AM PST

    Hello all, I have been lurking here for quite some time. I just got my first web developer job today in Atlanta. I don't feel super qualified after going through this sub and seeing all the amazing resume websites and personal projects you all have made and yet still a lot of you guys don't have jobs when you're pretty amazing!

    For the interview for this company they gave me a prompt with business requirements and some small design decisions and told me to build a website for their "client". I had a week to build out as much as I could and present it to them.

    For all those getting starting and trying to break in just keep your head up. A lot of you are very skilled and just need to get in front of the right people!

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    EDIT: typo

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    7 Unique APIs for making interesting projects or side hustles

    Posted: 21 Jan 2021 05:47 AM PST

    People here seemed to like the last version of this: https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/kmfmjd/8_apis_for_interesting_projects_in_2021/

    So I'm back with some more interesting APIs that you can either use to make a cool portfolio project or even build a profitable side project with. Only limit is your creativity with some of these tools

    1. Shodan - You can think of Shodan as Google for every device connected to the internet. They crawl the web and catalog devices, when you hear stories about people's IoT devices getting hacked they probably got found with Shodan. Crazy what you can find, just make sure not to get yourself arrested
    2. RadarIO API - Provides a bunch of really cool geolocation based features. Stuff like real-time location tracking, geofencing, Google maps style directions, and a huge database of "places" where you can verify if users visit. Also a new API that uses bluetooth so you can even do location based stuff inside retail buildings with accuracy of a few meters.
    3. Web Hose - They basically scrape the entire internet and then organize the data to make it easy to access via API. Lot's of social media management tools use this behind the scene to monitor for mentions of company names. You can find the most popular content about "javascript" created online within the last 16 days based on number of social shares and sort it by the amount of traffic to the domain
    4. People Data Labs - Can be pretty creepy if used wrong, but also can enhance your product. Not sure how they get their data but an example is if you have somebody sign up for a free trial of your app with just an email, you can use that to sometimes find out where they work and their job title. Mainly used by sales teams to prioritize high value leads.
    5. Crawlera - Makes it easy to build scalable bots and web scrapers without getting blocked, could basically make your own Web Hose with Crawlera
    6. SpaceX API - Pretty simple compared to the others, but still fun to play around with this data. Could make a dashboard as a frontend project
    7. Segment - Used to connect a bunch of different data sources together with just a few lines of code, tons of use cases

    If you want more detail of each and a few project ideas you can check out my video covering them:

    https://youtu.be/XerRP4zeOzs

    If I missed any cool APIs you like, let me know. Also feel free to brainstorm on ideas about how you could use APIs

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    I wanna learn proper React architecture. I wanna be able to make good code decisions that don't leave the codebase a nightmare-ish mess. I wanna be able to keep the code clean, readable, maintainable & easy to follow. Recommend me resources to become a frontend architecture wizard, please.

    Posted: 21 Jan 2021 03:13 PM PST

    Context: I started working on an old RN codebase a few weeks ago & this made me lose my mind & time over just trying to understand the clusterfuck of code I was working with.

    I am a FE junior developer with +1 year experience & I aspire to become an awesome architect. We work mostly with React Native & React & (its kids like Gatsby & Next JS) & I wanna be able to make good decisions. Feel free to throw in CSS related shit too. Thank you.

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    Best place to find technical partner for profitable trading system?

    Posted: 21 Jan 2021 06:45 AM PST

    I have a trading platform that I've worked on for a while and it's not perfect but quite profitable. It trades forex, futures, and options. With it, I was able to grow a real account from $3.5K to $50K in 3 months (on very aggressive settings - now, the growth rate is slower but still profitable). It's a mix of human and algo trading.

    I coded everything myself (node.js backend and my own frontend framework for the control dashboard) up to this point but as a self-taught programmer, it's a bit hacked together and I'd like to work with a more experienced fullstack dev / CTO to expand the project more. Even better if they've worked on finance applications or has trading experience.

    I have money to hire someone part or full time but I'd really like to find a committed partner (almost like a cofounder) who can actively contribute to the project and treat it as their own.

    Would anyone here be interested or be able to recommend how I can reach qualified candidates? Perhaps a more appropriate subreddit or website I can post to? PMs are open for any questions.

    Thanks a lot!

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    Got turned down because code wasn't "clean".

    Posted: 21 Jan 2021 12:56 PM PST

    I'm definitely not complaining, and I'm super grateful they wrote me an email with specific criticism, even if it was just one sentence.

    The interview process was to use the Draw Card API to make an application in React Native that draws a card from a deck. I went a little beyond that and even had the deck reshuffle after it runs out (not hard).

    However the criticism I received was the app had "the right direction" however they "wish the code was a little cleaner."

    I knew to separate components into parts. Hooks are kinda new to me, but i figured they'd prefer to see them rather than class components/state. Or maybe it's because all the hooks are in App.js? Or is it something bigger?

    If anyone has time, would they mind helping me review my code?

    https://github.com/Redact0r/react-native-draw-card-app

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    Building a sidenav component

    Posted: 21 Jan 2021 11:33 AM PST

    How are people making responsive SVGs with text overlay?

    Posted: 21 Jan 2021 01:39 PM PST

    I'm seeing this a lot more common on websites now like on Netlify for example. They essentially craft all images assets, backgrounds, code editors, phones mockups, as SVGs and overlay text. I get the general concept but scaling it seems like its tricky. How do people do this in a normal workflow and what's the common way to generate these kind of assets? Adobe Illusrator?

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    Job Scheduling Framework Recomendations

    Posted: 21 Jan 2021 04:53 PM PST

    Hi Everyone,

    I know this isn't completely web dev, but I think it applies to a lot of websites that use data.

    I am building a very data heavy web application, which uses a lot of code (python scripts/executables/etc.) that periodically execute and perform tasks.

    In the past I've used Jenkins for this, it was easy to schedule and monitor how the tasks do (the log print outs from builds are nice), see failures, add new tasks etc. However this dosen't seem like the right usecase for jenkins, as jenkins seems to bill itself as a CI/CD. Not sure if that should even matter to me as it seems to work fine.

    Does anyone use any scheduling frameworks that they'd recommend. I really value the monitoring (which is why I don't just use cron)

    Thanks!

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    I fired a client for the first time today

    Posted: 21 Jan 2021 06:23 AM PST

    I started with this client around 6 months ago after an existing client recommended my services.

    He was going to use up his saved income from his full time employment to hire someone to make a web app for him, so he could make money on the side.

    Before working with a client, I assess their needs and what they would like by the end of the project. In this case I would charge a flat fee, and we would go into detail on what they would expect to see in terms of functionality by the end of the development period.

    I drafted up 4 pages of requirements and quoted based on that evaluation and began work. All jobs start with a 20% deposit which was payed and after about 2 months of work the client and myself were happy. As I continued with the project and started building up the backend, the client made major changes to his requirements on what the site should look like and what functionality it should have. This was not detailed in the original agreement and the contract states any changes are subject to a re-quote.

    After heated conversations about the agreement and explaining I was not obliged to change parts of the application I had already created; especially if they weren't abiding to the conditions in the agreement, I exercised the clause in the contact in which I could terminate the project at any time.
    I sent a formal written notice along with the reasoning.

    Whilst I always try to persevere and accommodate, I was at risk of losing money, especially after reducing the amount of time I had for other clients. I felt this was the right thing to do.

    This is the first client I've had to do this with, what are some of the obvious red flags that others have seen to prevent this from happening in future?

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    Google OAuth 2.0

    Posted: 21 Jan 2021 02:02 PM PST

    I'm trying to build a prototype to see if i can use google API to authenticate / register users.

    Right now im on the API console page trying to set up the client and it asks me to specify "Authorised JavaScript origins" but i want to build and run this from my dev machine which will have something like localhost:8080 or whatever.

    Could someone please guide me here? How does one go about devving against oauth api?

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    Need help with an htaccess redirect

    Posted: 21 Jan 2021 01:38 PM PST

    I use the following htaccess rule to make pretty urls for my site:

    RewriteEngine on

    RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/$ page.php?product=$1 [NC,L]

    So with a variable of vitamins, the url would change page.php?product=vitamins to example.com/vitamins

    Now I need to 301 redirect example.com/vitamins to example.com/multivitamins, but I can't figure out how to get it working.

    Any ideas?

    edit: just for clarity's sake, I have tried the following simple redirect:

    Redirect 301 /vitamins http://www.example.com/multivitamins [NC,L]

    but when i visit example.com/multivitamins, it redirects to example.com/multivitamins/?product=vitamins, so clearly I'm missing something.

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    The history of the browser user-agent string

    Posted: 21 Jan 2021 01:28 PM PST

    Create a Review Website like Glassdoor / Yelp / TripAdvisor

    Posted: 21 Jan 2021 03:23 PM PST

    I am looking to create a user-generated review website for a specific niche industry. I am a total noob as it relates to web development.

    Which tech stack do you recommend for this? I have one programmer quoting me a Wordpress CMS ($2k) and another talking about using MySQL / Python ($5k).

    Ultimately, I want to create a simple review website like Glassdoor / Yelp / TripAdvisor. What would you recommend in my situation?

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    Learning bootstrap 4

    Posted: 21 Jan 2021 03:07 PM PST

    So, i have a problem, i follow the Angela Yu course on web dev, shes teaching Bootstrap 4 but Bootstrap 5 is the latest, what do i do ? do i skip the bootstrap part and do a newer one on it or what ? are the changes really that big ?

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    Client asks to protect his Vimeo video lessons from being screen recorded. Can it be done?

    Posted: 21 Jan 2021 12:55 AM PST

    So my client has a website with 100+ lessons about mathematics and she would like to protect those videos from possible downloads and screen recording. Basically, she fears they can be "stolen" and used elsewhere.

    The videos are on Vimeo. I know you can make downloading a bit harder (kind of...) but I am not aware of any "trick" to avoid recording the entire screen or part of it. She's also open to moving to another platform, if that's a requirement.

    She said "But Amazon Prime Video and Netflix can't be recorded, I tried multiple times and I just get a black screen, sometimes I can just get the audio with no image".

    What would you do?

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    Best local development stack for switching versions of PHP, MySQL, etc.

    Posted: 21 Jan 2021 02:56 PM PST

    I currently use XAMPP on Windows. But I'd really like a setup where I can open a control panel, flip a switch, and voilà, PHP is now running 7.2 or 5.6. Same with MySQL/MariaDB and Apache. Bonus points if it can remember settings on a per-project basis. What tools/workflows allow for this? Or is it just a pipe dream?

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    Cool little project.

    Posted: 21 Jan 2021 09:34 AM PST

    HTML elements not loading on mobile on a hosted site but show up normal for desktop.

    Posted: 21 Jan 2021 11:58 AM PST

    I am using cPanel on BlueHost to make a website for a client. I have uploaded my files to the public.html folder and everything is live and looks good. But when I make changes and upload the files again.. some of the new html elements that I have added dont show up on mobile. They show up on desktop so I know its working and registering but idk why it wont show up on my phone. Any ideas? Im not sure if its a cPanel problem. I dont think its a Sass problem either. Do mobile devices take longer to recognize changes on a hosted site? Any help would be great. Thanks.

    Also I was having weird problems earlier where my sass stopped recognizing changes once live. On my local server all the design changes registered and looked great but once it was hosted it wouldnt change. So weird. I got around it by changing the names of my scss and css files and that worked for whatever reason.

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    For the love of god, can someone explain to me what is this and how it all ties up together?

    Posted: 21 Jan 2021 02:46 AM PST

    I have been trying to figure out how the websites are being rendered on mobile devices and ended up encountering these concepts physical pixel / CSS pixel / device independent pixel / density independent pixels. I read a couple of articles and don't see to agree on what is what!

    I get that pixel pixel are the resolution of the output device and that CSS pixel is the pixels we use to determine dimensions in the CSS, and there is a relation between the three. so can someone tell me what is the relation between these and is the viewport content property exactly do?

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    Am I justified?

    Posted: 21 Jan 2021 05:04 AM PST

    Hi everyone,

    I think I'm experiencing burnout. I feel like I no longer have the motivation / desire to do Web Dev in my current professional position. Some possible factors:

    • Company seems to want to fix both Scope and Time (i.e. "Estimated Time to Completion") for development. It would seem that this is not ideal, and I would prefer that they only fix either one.

    • Tight Deadlines. For a new project that I worked on, I was asked to give a Time Estimation from start to v1. I cited 4-5 weeks, thinking that each Page in the 3 Page SPA would take 1 week, plus some additional Buffer Time. My Team Lead said that she thought it can be done in 2 weeks. In the end, it took 8-9 weeks, and counting, due to changes in scope and bottlenecks (i.e. Dec, everyone was clearing Leaves).

    • The Project never ends. There's always more to do, to change / integrate existing features. Addition of new features is not too bad though. Or a Project Revamp (I value maintainable, readable and consistent code over features).

    • Competition between Teams. We have two teams, both doing FE Work for our department. My Team Lead told me in private that Management thought that the output of my Team was too low. I think this was the reason for Point 2.

    Nowadays during working hours, I find myself daydreaming, staring into space, walking around aimlessly, taking naps (WFH), and reading non Web Dev things online. I probably output 3 hours worth of useful work per day (in the Mornings), out of 9 each day. During off hours I usually play games, although rarely (usually 3 day weekends) I will do some self-study into other Technologies (the most recent being MongoDB). I feel like my knowledge acquisition is too slow at times.

    I am going to take the entire Feb off (no pay Leave). I hope I can recover, and possibly do something meaningful, in that period.

    I was wondering if the above points are the industry-norm, if it's just this specific Company, or if it's just me. I would like to get a second opinion, and if possible, some ways that can improve my situation.

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    Analyzing Bugzilla Testcases with Bugmon

    Posted: 21 Jan 2021 10:48 AM PST

    The LAMP Stack and Wordpress

    Posted: 21 Jan 2021 04:39 PM PST

    Greetings everyone. I've been googling for a month or so trying to find resources to get into PHP development with MySQL/Postgres and Nginx, all running on an Ubuntu server. The problem is, I have no idea how to work with servers and XAMPP still confuses me when it comes to creating more than one project. Can you recommend any resources on creating LAMP environments for PHP and Wordpress development (locally and in production)?

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    For interviewing, what's considered an acceptable gauge for a front end development take-home test?

    Posted: 21 Jan 2021 04:06 PM PST

    Just wondering what's acceptable for you - or should be for our industry as a whole, in terms of..

    • Time
    • The actual ask of the test / project

    I'm luckily in a position to refuse tests (have a job), but if I were ever without one I'd want to know what's an 'okay, this test is acceptable so I'll do it' versus 'yeah, no thanks this is ridiculous'.

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