Behold: The worst font announcement website ever web developers

I have intermediate web dev knowledge & I created a website using WordPress and some custom jquery scripts for the company I work for. The site is pretty basic and consists of a blog, a dozen HTML pages, and a few forms to collect info.

Some developers that are working remotely on another project for us swear that the only way to create a site nowadays is to create a pre-rendered SPA because of the instant load times.

I can understand where they're coming from but I feel like they are trying to squeeze extra hours out of us and are taking forever, completely rebuilding the site from scratch.

It's looking like they will be completing the project in vue.js which I'm interested in learning, but for future reference: is Wordpress really that bad?

Seems like it's customizable enough to accomplish whatever your needs are with all the plugins and templates available, even for the more advanced sites. I Would like to get feedback from developers with more experience than me! Thanks in advance :)

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How can I implement randomised swirling in the HTML canvas element?

Posted: 29 Mar 2018 02:07 PM PDT

I'd like to create a coloring book for my son and daughter out of their scanned drawings (and mine). I know JS pretty well, but I've only really worked with Node, so some of the client-side stuff is unfamiliar to me. I've spent the day reading up on the Canvas element and CSS animations, but I can't quite figure out what combination of techniques would get me where I'd need to be, so I'd love any advice anyone could offer.

Here's what throws me: I don't want the traditional 'your cursor/finger is the crayon, move it around to colour' thing. Instead, I was thinking of having a little color picker at the bottom of the screen where the user can touch, say, red and pink, and then clicks/touches work like the Fill tool in MSPaint/Photoshop, filling the entire enclosed area with a swirling blend of red and pink that radiates out from the click/touch site over a few seconds.

Is that something I could do with just the canvas element and some JS? Would I need CSS animations too, or even WebGL stuff? Is it entirely outside the scope of the browser, or way more work than I could imagine? Are there canvas-animating libraries I should be aware of before I tackle this myself? Any tips at all would be brilliant.

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We should stop using fb on our sites

Posted: 28 Mar 2018 10:05 PM PDT

Fb does not provide traffic unless you spend $$$ on ads. Even you build a dedicated fanbase, fb will not give exposure to sitelinks, they wont appear in user timeline
Fb has tracking and heavy javascripts in their like/share button
Fb is selling data through api (cambridge analytica)
Fb mobile app is hearing through microphone

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Schema for nosql 'friend' relationship with invites

Posted: 29 Mar 2018 03:43 PM PDT

Looking to create a sort of team item that contains 'members'. I could easily add user _ids to a 'members' array in the team but i want the user to have to accept an invite to the team first. The problem is, the user has no access to said team unless he accepts so it wouldn't be resful to let the user to PUT to a team he's not authorized to, and i also cant return a whole teams item to a user that has yet to accept an invite. So an 'invitees' array seems like an anti pattern...

What would your solution be? im open to creating a separate 'invites' index and item too

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How do I make img-thumbnails the same size?

Posted: 29 Mar 2018 03:41 PM PDT

I am going through Colt Steele's Web Developer Bootcamp and he uses Bootstrap 3. When he does the image thumbnails they all end up being the same size, but when I do it (doing it with bootstrap 4) they're not the same size. Anyone know how to fix it?

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I'm a freelancer and work alone. What would be a 'worth-it' front-end development set up for me?

Posted: 29 Mar 2018 11:11 AM PDT

With all the framework currently available, I heard that transcompiler such as Typescript are too much of work to set up for someone who work alone as me. (I took this statement from another thread.)

DISCLAMER: Even if I work alone, I just want to precise that I always comment my code and make a readme for the future person that may work on my code.

Do anyone of you agree? What's your opinion.

Thank you

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Looking for advice on a new web project.

Posted: 29 Mar 2018 11:06 AM PDT

First, I am not an experienced web developer. I've got about 50 hours on freecodecamp.org, about 20 hours on udemy, and countless hours reading on random sites and the only sites I've built have used WordPress. I'm a graphic artist that has taken on management of a web development project for a friend/business partner, and I really want to make sure I am going in the right direction.

The site will use Dexi.io, a scraping service which will be scraping about 15-20 sites and will be able to connect and upload directly to an sql database and will do so many times a day. Each row will contain about 10 columns of text data including a column referencing an image that will go along with that row and be stored in a separate folder. The site should be able to display and sort/search the data from the sql, and needs to be responsive. There will also need to be an integrated news blog that will need a CMS to add/delete new posts.

My initial idea was to use wordpress with this theme and use custom SQL fields. I bought the theme, paid for a years of scale hosting with wp-engine, started working on it, and promptly changed my mind. I just don't want to use wordpress. First of all, I'm not sure that it would handle the traffic this site will generate, of which there could be bursts of 50k simultaneous users on occasion, and also the size of the database which will initially have approx. 10,000 rows and will grow by about 12k per year until I decide to start archiving older data. I also don't want to be at the mercy of wordpress updates possibly breaking any themes or plugins.

So then I decided I would just start learning html and php, which I have been doing now for about a month, and I've been trying to specifically target the information I need to know to get this site going. I am confident enough to build a static site at this point with html and css, but I haven't gotten far enough into php or javascript to learn what I need to know to interface with the database. I bought a class on Udemy that I think will cover everything I need, but once I started getting into it, I realized that the class is being taught using PHP5 and Bootstrap 3 instead of PHP7/BS4 so I'm wondering if I should abandon that course in lieu of something more up to date.

I know there's a lot of PHP haters out there but I'm pretty sure that's what I want to learn unless someone convinces me otherwise. Just wondering if I should start with an MVC framework like Laravel or just use PHP with jquery or something.

Thanks

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I'm a beginner at web development on FreeCodeCamp! I have questions.

Posted: 29 Mar 2018 02:35 PM PDT

Okay, so I seriously love the idea of web development. I love watching my code come to life.

I'm currently using FreeCodeCamp. I'm following the curriculum, currently on Bootstrap, and I'm still struggling with these questions.

How do I retain the concepts I learn? Is there a specific index containing all of the attributes and elements that work together?

Is it okay to still be struggling with trying to put together my own website?

Should I continue to follow the curriculum or should I be propelling myself forward on my own from this point on?

This is such a broad question, but what key (specific) skills are necessary for me to flourish in web development? There are so many concepts I come across on Youtube about web development, how do I know what to narrow down my learning to? Like for instance, I get really caught up on understanding what happens with on-event handlers, but I don't think I should be concerned about that at this point, right? Apologies for the rambling.

Are there any additional resources I can use (rather than saying Youtube or Codeacademy, can you please be specific)?

Thanks! I'm looking forward to making my own websites and contributing to open source. You all are amazing, honestly.

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Good project ideas for aspiring junior web devs?

Posted: 29 Mar 2018 02:18 PM PDT

I'm about half way done with my bootcamp and I'm thinking about applying for junior front end dev positions but I don't know if I'm ready. What are some web apps a junior developer should know how to make? Any ideas welcome!

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Suggest me a tool for this..

Posted: 29 Mar 2018 09:56 AM PDT

An alternate for Postman but open source that stores API docs in version control and can easily mock API from these docs. Should be able to generate proper API documentation too for clients. Thanks.

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Approaches to image uploading in a RESTful web service?

Posted: 29 Mar 2018 09:46 AM PDT

I'm putting together a dummy RESTful web service for music records and artists in Symfony. I've completed all the fronted logic and want to extend the application further by adding an API.

Everything works fine at the moment but I'm not entirely sure as to what approach I should take for handling image uploading for record covers. I've so far narrowed down possible approaches I could take.

A direct URL to the image
Base64 encoded image
Multiform uploads (not sure on the ins and outs of this though)

At the moment I'm incorporating Base64 encoding, though it's a little unwieldy when making requests it works, I know the Google Image Vision API uses this approach. Would giving users the ability to pass URLs or Base64 help or would it just make the API/Documentation more confusing?

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Is there anything I need to know/learn before Vue.js if I'm new to front end frameworks?

Posted: 29 Mar 2018 01:26 PM PDT

Other than Javascript ofcourse!

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Question for the older devs on here. How much job history do you provide on your resume?

Posted: 29 Mar 2018 01:23 PM PDT

I've been developing websites in various roles/capacities since around 2003. I've been thinking about doing a few options with my resume. I've been considering removing the older jobs on them or the jobs/positions where I didn't really accomplish a whole lot.

I was curious what others have done.

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ES Modules: A cartoon deep-dive

Posted: 29 Mar 2018 09:14 AM PDT

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Why Performance Matters

Posted: 29 Mar 2018 12:52 PM PDT

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Agency Career

Posted: 29 Mar 2018 12:19 PM PDT

Hi All,

I want a career in web development and digital marketing agencies. I'm currently finishing up a CS degree, and web development is what I love.

My skillset is mainly PHP/MySQL Recently picked up Laravel.

I'm ok at Javascript/jQuery. I know HTML/CSS. I can't design, but if I'm given a design, I can manage.

Should I add WordPress to my stack, or is there anything else I'm not even thinking about.

What's agency life like? My goal is to open my own one.

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Full stack, MERN ou MEAN ?

Posted: 29 Mar 2018 11:30 AM PDT

So,

i intend in go a little bit more into Mongo DB and Express and NodeJS.

at this moment i only worked with vanilla js and jquery. (php and mysql for the backend). So i wanted to learn Angular or React (can't quite understand the difference between redux, and its variants).

Can someone enlight me on wich stack i should point to?

for what i could understand, angular is more focused on webapps and react for "websites". Is this correct?

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Need Some Web Development Advice!!

Posted: 29 Mar 2018 10:52 AM PDT

So recently i bought a software by the name Bootstrap Studio. My understanding is that it assists in creating websites. I've also been told that its only doing front end stuff.

So...firstly i have no clue what programming language it is using? CSS, JS, HTML5? So if someone could please tell me.

Secondly, ive been studying Java programming and currently have only basic level skills. (Keep in mind im 16) So roughly Grade 10 work. So my question is, will my Java Programming skills ever assist in my knowledge of html5 or the above mentioned coding languages? and if so how much?

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Looking for suggestions on sending emails from web page

Posted: 29 Mar 2018 10:48 AM PDT

I have a form for users to fill out on my webpage. I would like to store this data, as well as send an automated email to a specific address containing that form's submitted information. I've contemplated using PHPMailer and something like Firebase, or mongoDB but I would like to be able to blast email and FB MDB don't really help me on that front. I have looked into MailChimp's API and it seems to do what I need but I wanted to see if anyone else out there had other suggestions or have used MailChimps API. Thanks.

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