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    Beginner Questions - March 02, 2018 web developers

    Beginner Questions - March 02, 2018

    Posted: 02 Mar 2018 05:16 AM PST

    If you're new to web development and would like to ask experienced and professional web developers a question, please post below.

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    Stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life 'Code is free so why are you charging money?'.

    Posted: 01 Mar 2018 08:15 PM PST

    All the web dev jobs from the most popular remote & online job boards listed on one website

    Posted: 02 Mar 2018 02:40 AM PST

    I created a job aggregator website https://ditchtheoffice.co which automatically lists all of the remote & online developer jobs from all of the most popular job boards.

    At the moment it lists all jobs that are listed as 100% remote from these job boards:

    Part/full time boards:

    FlexJobs, Simply Hired, Jobspresso, Stackoverflow, Virtual Vocations, We Work Remotely, Working Nomads, Remote.co

    Also, we have an option to search freelance jobs on these sites (haven't got Upwork yet, waiting for API access):

    Freelancer, Guru, People Per Hour

    I'm looking to keep adding more job sites as soon as possible, if you have any favourite sites that you want listed let me know and I'll see if I can get them added!

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    A puppeteer IDE with autocomplete, typeahead, download and more

    Posted: 02 Mar 2018 02:32 PM PST

    Hey webdev folks,

    I've been working on a pretty snazzy puppeteer "IDE" (think GraphiQL but for puppeteer) located here. A small list of features:

    • Download a bundle of your script + all required deps
    • Let's you see what the headless browser is doing at execution time.
    • Opens up devtools so you can inspect DOM, eval some JS and so forth
    • Let's you use things like debugger; statements
    • Has autocomplete, typeahead and inline docs!
    • It's open-sourced!

    The repo is here for those interested, and there's a docker build of it here.

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    How is a Linux computer easier for development?

    Posted: 02 Mar 2018 10:35 AM PST

    I'm thinking about reformatting my computer and dual booting Windows and Linux. I hear that a Linux computer makes it much easier for development. How so? I'd also like to mention that I use Adobe software nearly everyday. Would it be worth dual booting Windows and Linux, or should I just stick with Windows?

    EDIT: Thanks guys! I'll just keep running Windows. For the record, I know that there's no "best OS" but I heard that Linux was easier to develop on, but I didn't understand how it was the case. But because I use Photoshop, Illustrator, Xperience Design, After Effects, and Premier regularly, I'll just keep my computer a Windows machine rather than a hybrid.

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    sendback.io | Mock HTTP Status Codes

    Posted: 02 Mar 2018 03:14 AM PST

    Dumb question: What's the difference between a bundler and a static site generator?

    Posted: 02 Mar 2018 07:46 AM PST

    I always wondered in the back of my head what the purpose of a static site generator was. Today, I listened to the syntaxfm podcast on static site generators and thought all my questions would be answered.

    But I'm still confused. For example, why would I use a static site generator for a react app when you have the webpack bundler in create react app?

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    Favorite Best Practice Resources for Large Projects?

    Posted: 02 Mar 2018 10:04 AM PST

    I'm a recently-hired Jr. Front-End Developer on a two-man team for a non-tech-focused company.

    Up to now, our development processes and code base have been kind of a mess, but we're currently starting the process of upgrading to the newest version of our CMS, which will bring with it the opportunity to use some new(ish) tools, including SASS, Bootstrap 4, flexbox (we're dumping older IE support), gulp, and some VueJS.

    At the same time, I'm designing and developing a couple of stand-alone sites (3-5 pages each) that are going to have a completely different theme from our main site, so I'm looking at ways to do these the right way from the start before we begin tackling an eventual redesign of our main site.

    I already have some ideas about how best to go about it (BEM and 7-1 Sass architecture, Git branches for new features, etc.), but as I'm still pretty new, I thought I'd put an open call out for any best-practice resources and documents you guys rely on to keep large-scale projects from devolving into a spaghetti code nightmare. Thanks!

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    Workflow question: auto-add new CSS classes to stylesheet based on HTML markup?

    Posted: 02 Mar 2018 11:00 AM PST

    Is there a way to have Atom text editor automatically add new styles to my style.css file? Say I want to create a div with the class "mydiv". When I save my markup, I want the stylesheet to recognize the new class and add a selector for it automatically.

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    What quote keeps you going and has kept you going with this job/hobby?

    Posted: 02 Mar 2018 10:51 AM PST

    Hey everyone! I'm a self learner chugging my way through some courses and I would appreciate some motivating and helpful quotes that have helped you guys out when you were learning or going through a tough time.

    Bonus: somebody that you look up to that has kept you going Thanks!

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    Web Devs, Do You Handle SVG Creation?

    Posted: 02 Mar 2018 07:54 AM PST

    Many websites seem to utilize SVG in many parts of their content. There are entire animations that make me question "Is this just a video playing?" only to find out it's made entirely in SVG.

    This seems like a whole different thing to handle and learn aside from the language and templating of regular web development. Does this normally fall under the web developers tasks or is it assigned to a designed digital artist/designer?

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    Looking for a good compiler for front-end/website developer stuffs.

    Posted: 02 Mar 2018 12:52 PM PST

    Hello everybody! :)

    I'm looking for a compiler (as the title says) preferably something that supports the likes of Jade(Pug),Sass,Less etc.

    Thank you all in advance and may your code behave. :3

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    How do you keep response times low between multiple nodejs microservice calls?

    Posted: 02 Mar 2018 06:53 AM PST

    I'm building out an app that has multiple node instances calling each other via http calls. All are running on different EC2 instances, each with decent specs, and my response times after a request passes through just two node instances is garbage. Imagine a node client facing app (for rendering layout), that makes a request to an api gateway node instance (for routing the request), and a database node instance (for querying the database).

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    Template Functionality

    Posted: 02 Mar 2018 03:59 PM PST

    Hello Everyone, I have an HTML template for an e-commerce site (product page, checkout, account, etc...). I know that I now need to develop the back-end. What is the best way to go about this while still keeping the looks of the front-end?

    I have MySQL and PHP setup but I need a push in the right direction as far as implementing this.

    Thank you.

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    What is your WebGL workflow? [x-post from /r/webgl]

    Posted: 02 Mar 2018 10:01 AM PST

    Hey my fellow web devs!

    Sharing my post from /r/webgl for some further insight.

    I've taken a leap from typical web apps to see what WebGL is all about. I have experience with Unity dev (c#) for mobile apps so it seems like an interesting journey.

    I have teamed up with a 3D artist and we have the following project:

    • Scene 1 - a basic isometric town with 2 or 3 buildings. It would be a very basic and simplified version of this - http://demos.littleworkshop.fr/infinitown
    • Scene 2 - one building can be clicked on to zoom into it. This would display a more detailed view with a few clickable hotspots which display info modals/popups
    • Scene 3 - an overlay which displays a basic animated flow chart (HTML not 3D). E.g. https://i.imgur.com/ujoyr9q.png

    After some tests we have found that Maya works for our simple models/textures and three.js is handling the scene setup and scripting side of it.

    My question for you is: what is your workflow for 3D design > 3d web development? And additionally

    • Do you think something like blender is more suited for design here?
    • How do you implement your animations in WebGL?

    Any input is appreciated!

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    prettier without eslint

    Posted: 02 Mar 2018 11:47 AM PST

    I want the benefits of prettier without seeing anything related to eslint. I may see the value of eslint, but it isn't the right call for this team. I could see prettier helping a lot.

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    Membership site pet peeve

    Posted: 02 Mar 2018 03:28 PM PST

    Years ago when Google launched Gmail it was an invite only thing. I received an invite and set up my email, my first name @gmail.com. That's pretty cool, but for one thing, there are a lot of other people in the world with my first name who can't seem to remember their email addresses.

    My email address gets signed up for everything, gaming sites, dating sites, Ashleymadison, Paypal, NZ Oil workers, somebody just signed me up for Instagram like ten minutes ago, and then requested the confirmation email be sent again. And that's what this post is about.

    Some companies, like Instagram, let a person remove their email address from association with the account, "Didn't sign up? Click here to remove your email address." Many, many other companies do not.

    So I end up on the phone with Paypal, "I get it I'm not the account owner and not authorized to make changes to the account, but so long as my email address is on there, I have access to their money, so you probably want to remove my email."

    This also becomes a problem if I ever want to sign up for something myself, like I tried to do recently at Epic Games. A lost password request will sometimes work, but someone had tried to play Fortnite on an Xbox with my email, so apparently I can't play on a PC. I don't even own an Xbox!

    That's when I find myself emailing something to the effect of: "I am trying to give your company money, but four years ago someone tried to register using my email address, and though I did not click the confirmation link, you stored my address with that account and I am now barred from paying for your service."

    Is it so hard to schedule a cron job to clear out unconfirmed accounts, or at least unconfirmed email addresses?

    So that's it, my little rant. If you ask for an email address, and it's not confirmed in a timely manner, scrubbing it from the DB might save someone a headache.

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    How much would it cost to get a Shopify store similar to gymshark ?

    Posted: 02 Mar 2018 03:11 PM PST

    What are some essential twitter feeds to follow if you're a beginner webdev?

    Posted: 02 Mar 2018 03:00 PM PST

    I'm starting down the "Hey I wanna be a front-end webdev!" like everyone else and one thing I want to do is try to immerse myself as much as I can, since I'll be doing this parallel to my day job.

    I'm in my late 30's and have never used twitter before for anything (especially practical) so I wanted to piggy-back on that and leverage it to keep me wired into the webdev space.

    What/who are some key or valuable accounts to follow in Twitter? Thanks!

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    Why do employers ask if I know HTML & CSS?

    Posted: 02 Mar 2018 12:36 AM PST

    I have been asking myself this question for a couple of years now, when being interviewed, offline or online, the interviewer usually has already seen some of the stuff I created online and by now we have usually gone over some front-end framework stuff (I have worked a lot with Vue.js) and my experience with it. And then comes the question if I know HTML and CSS, I usually give them a bit of a puzzled look thinking "how the hell do you think I have been creating these web pages we have looked at?" and saying "ehh... yes I do". The thing is these interviewers are often devs themself, why do they ask this question??

    Edit: Check out this comment for some good reasons: https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/81cv84/why_do_employers_ask_if_i_know_html_css/dv2w0zt?utm_source=reddit-android

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    Question about design, where should my focus be?

    Posted: 02 Mar 2018 02:16 PM PST

    Hi, first time posting here so I apologize if I'm breaking any rules or anything like that, just looking for some help so I appreciate your patience.

    But I am a CS senior with some internship experience with web development, but it was with spring MVC (if I'm even describing that properly) and the project was very well established when I got a chance to work on it.

    For practice/portfolio building, I am currently working on implementing one of those 90's paper fortune tellers we used to play with, as well as doing some fun things like possible making impossible physical designs but I haven't gotten very far because the question on whether or not I was doing it right came up. The question is where should my work be? For instance, I am using JQuery to handle a lot of things, but am using the css :hover property for some things and I don't really like mixing things like that. But the analogy I would use to describe my web development is sort of having the HTML being a very basic skeleton, having JS be the flesh and joints, and CSS being the skin and how it looks. My concern is the flesh aspect if that makes sense to anyone reading this.

    For a better example, here is 

    function generate_tiles(){ for(var i = 0; i < 4; i++){ var text = ""; if(i % 2 == 0){ text = "<div class = 'tiles' style = 'float:left;'>" + i + " </div>"; $("#teller").append(text); } else{ text = "<div class = 'tiles' style = 'float:right;'>" + i + "</div>"; $("#teller").append(text); } } }

    Sorry about that formatting I don't really get how Reddit is doing that, I much prefer the slack ``` for code.

    But as you can see, I am using JS to generate the 'tiles,' what I am calling the sections of the fortune teller because eventually it will be of variable size. Is that the correct approach or should I be building it in another way? Any advice is greatly appreciated, I am just trying to learn. Thank you for your time and assistance.

    TL;DR: Where should the bulk of the work be done? Is :hover okay/preferred?

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    Am I doing this right?

    Posted: 02 Mar 2018 01:27 PM PST

    I recently got into professional web development and I am loving it so far but one thing I am struggling with is my workflow when working in a team, I have no issue working on my own since my workflow is super simple with nothing more than my tools, a stage server then a live server.

    Would anyone share their workflows that might benefit someone new to front end professional team web development.

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    Looking for advice on creating a searchable image database website

    Posted: 02 Mar 2018 01:24 PM PST

    Hey developers,

    I want the create a website that allows a large database of images I can add tags to and then use a search engine to only pull up images with the tags I'm looking for.

    I should mention I've only ever made websites with wix and they have only been image gallery sites but wix doesn't offer any type of useful tagging or searching tools.

    I'm willing to learn how to do this but I'm not sure where to start. Can someone please help point me in the right direction?

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    Using Namecheap, Softaculous to install Wordpress. How can I wipe the entire server and do an installation from scratch?

    Posted: 02 Mar 2018 01:20 PM PST

    Deleting the current Wordpress installation and the databases manually still leaves some files on the server, and when I install again, I get the following page:

    https://imgur.com/kTAS0mp

    How can I fix this?

    Thanks in advance.

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    [Resources] Domain Name Generator - Find Good Business Name Ideas

    Posted: 02 Mar 2018 12:45 PM PST

    Started a new junior web role. Need some input.

    Posted: 01 Mar 2018 04:08 PM PST

    I've started a new junior role and already I feel like I'm super underqualified. I've found it hard to keep up with basic tasks I think because how unfamiliar I am with the sites but then sometimes I can't even move some icons where I want them.

    Did anyone else feel like this during their first job? How did it go? Did it get easier? What did you find helpful when you started?

    I feel really lucky at the same time that I've got the chance to get some proper experience so I really want this to work out.

    Edit: Wow, I didn't expect this many replies. Thanks to everyone who took the time to comment, it has definitely helped.

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