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    Home Unlabelled I've been lurking in this sub for a few years and I was curious why there isn't much discussion on ASP.NET MVC/Razer/C#/MSSQL/Visual Studio when it's one of the most common front/back-end combinations in corporate web development? web developers

    I've been lurking in this sub for a few years and I was curious why there isn't much discussion on ASP.NET MVC/Razer/C#/MSSQL/Visual Studio when it's one of the most common front/back-end combinations in corporate web development? web developers

    August 21, 2019

    I've been lurking in this sub for a few years and I was curious why there isn't much discussion on ASP.NET MVC/Razer/C#/MSSQL/Visual Studio when it's one of the most common front/back-end combinations in corporate web development? web developers

    I've been lurking in this sub for a few years and I was curious why there isn't much discussion on ASP.NET MVC/Razer/C#/MSSQL/Visual Studio when it's one of the most common front/back-end combinations in corporate web development?

    Posted: 21 Aug 2019 05:43 AM PDT

    When I was in college more than 10 years ago I liked playing with the latest gizmos and gadgets much like this sub likes to talk about but when I went to get a job I didn't know about anything in the Microsoft and .NET world which is what a lot of corporations use.

    I rarely ever see this combination recommended in the "I'm new at web dev what should I learn to get a job" posts.

    Thoughts?

    EDIT: Oops, spelled Razor wrong.

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    Cool personal site design

    Posted: 21 Aug 2019 06:42 AM PDT

    I'm torn between design and development. Please give some insight.

    Posted: 21 Aug 2019 12:07 AM PDT

    I've been doing on-and-off web design, graphic design and web development for the last 10 years (I'm 30 atm). This is partly because I'm a type of person that likes to know everything, and partly because my jobs and opportunities have revolved around small businesses where you end up being a jack-of-all-trades type of role.

    I'd like to know in which field I've come farther and if and where I should put my focus from now on.

    • Design: I've designed logos, banners, product catalogues, billboards and websites. Both digital and print. I have a lot of experience, but the catch is I've ever only used Photoshop. I never switched to Illustrator or anything else vector-based. I am really good with PS though. I also have a lot of experience with photography and photo editing, so i often combine that with my graphic design skills. (Edit: Forgot to mention I am comfortable with using tools like Adobe XD and Figma, which are vector-based)

    • Development: I've developed websites in terms of pure HTML/CSS/JS landing pages and fully custom wordpress themes for small and medium businesses. I know HTML/CSS/Sass really well. But as a programmer I never went very far. Wordpress and static sites aside, I'd say my dev capabilities amount to using JS to manipulate DOM and using PHP to build basic CRUD apps. I also know a fair amount about relational databases, I've designed them from scratch, optimized and normalized them, and I am pretty good with writing SQL.

    To make things more interesting, I've also taken a significant dive (in terms of effort and time invested) into digital marketing, doing things like UX, optimizing funnels, SEO, copywriting, affiliate marketing (running CPA campaigns), email marketing, etc.

    Here's what's happening right now. In the last month I've bought a book on UI design and I've bought an Udemy course on Angular + Ionic development. I've finished about 25% of the Udemy course, and now I'm a bit burned out. I was thinking I'll get back to it in a little while. In the meantime I am fine-tuning my UI design by reading this book. Problem is, I am still trying to do both.

    Generally speaking, I feel like both are hard for me. I struggle whether I design or code. Sometimes I'll make something really awesome and people will be impressed. But mostly I put in a lot of effort and I'm just OK.

    Currently I am work as one-man IT department in a medium sized non-IT company, doing pretty much everything you can imagine with computers, from internet marketing to webdev to print photography to setting up network and printers. I definitely want to get away from this eventually. Lately I've been thinking I would maybe be a good fit with an agency.

    I'm asking what would you do next. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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    Do people really just understand React, Redux, and things like that from reading the docs? Or even watching tutorials?

    Posted: 21 Aug 2019 12:23 PM PDT

    So I've been watching Stephen Grider's udemy course on react and redux. This is the second time I've started it and I'm getting React this time for the most part, but now it's getting into Redux and making me want to bang my head against a wall. So it took two watches to halfway "get" React, and it seems seeming like the same will happen with Redux. Am I stupid? I don't think I'm stupid, but this shit just does not click with me and I feel like there are a million people out there who just get it and are employed doing it and it makes me feel hopeless.

    I've built some real-world projects with Django, using lots of vanilla Javascript on the front end to make fairly dynamic interfaces. Surely that wasn't the best way to do it, but I figured it out and it all ended up working.

    Suddenly you throw libraries that make this stuff easier into the mix and I just don't get it. Not to mention I have to be plopped into a backend (Node/Express) that I'm not that familiar with, even though it doesn't seem that complicated...it's just a new environment, and nobody teaches React with Django or anything (and that's fine).

    I'm sure I'm not the first person to feel this way, and I don't really even know what I'm asking with this thread, other than maybe...is this as complicated as it seems? Am I just not good at this stuff? Is there some foundational knowledge I'm missing, but was somehow able to create stuff in other frameworks (granted there were major Django hurdles for me too, but they were in order to do much more complicated things I think).

    I want to learn React, because I really want a job in this industry, but it seems like if you need to learn React, you're going to need something like Redux too, and probably some other stuff, and I haven't even gotten into starting and hooking up a database with node...which it seems all those tutorials use Mongo, which it doesn't seem like any employers actually want.

    I really enjoyed making the sites I've made. It was satisfying. Getting into the JS frameworks world though has been a nightmare.

    I feel like I know like five people who could learn this stuff without giving up if they really put their mind to it, yet it seems like there are a million web developers out there.

    Is everything "clicking" just right around the corner, or does everybody struggle like this and you just don't hear about it?

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    How do i improve from here?

    Posted: 21 Aug 2019 01:06 PM PDT

    Hello,

    today i had a meeting/interview with a company with the purpose of introduction and some feedback on my CV. The reason being that for the next year i will be occupied with my mandatory military duty. And while i will have that down time, i want to use it as an opportunity to improve and expand on my skill set.

    In short, some key points where:

    In my current working environment we work with mainly php -> Drupal and Code Igniter. I am comfortable with Linux systems, remove server access and workflows. HTML5, Sass.

    On the side i have been studying the MERN stack and i have developed a bunch test applications - apis etc.

    I have written that i want to move on from CI to Laravel as far as php frameworks go. And that i am not a big fan of Drupal and would rather work with things like headless CMS like Contentful as well things like GraphQL.

    They seemed to appreciate the efford i put into studying and i think i did pretty well with the interview regarding the things i work with.

    I asked them that if the army thing was not an issue, would they offer me a job? They said yes.

    BUT at the same time they pointed out that they would expect from me, to be better at architecture. Make sure that i use micro services, take advantage of things like Docker, have better habits regarding scale ability etc.

    That's all very appreciated. But where do i begin with it? Are there any good resources with use cases that i could study? What are some architecture things you would consider a must and a bonus nowdays for a developer regarding front end and backend.

    ​

    Thank you.

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    The Making of an Animated Favicon

    Posted: 21 Aug 2019 05:10 AM PDT

    CSS rules that are only active for users with visual impairments?

    Posted: 21 Aug 2019 01:07 PM PDT

    Hey there,

    I'm wondering if there is any way to create CSS rules, or a seperate stylesheet, that is only active for users with various visual impairments.

    Specifically, I'm having issues with text/background contrast on buttons, nav, etc. I don't want to change the entire design to pass the ADA contrast guidelines, but I'd love to create a stylesheet that makes these contrast changes for visually impaired users.

    Is my only option adding a button somewhere on the site that toggles my high-contrast styles? Or can some sort of media query or stylesheet attribute become active under certain conditions that only exist if you are visually impaired (maybe a setting in their browser, for example)?

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    Client WP site broken due to update - am I being unreasonable?

    Posted: 21 Aug 2019 02:22 PM PDT

    Hi all

    Long story short a clients WooCommerce site has been up for almost two months and includes numerous additional functions which are custom to manage stock etc.

    Essentially at the end of the project I stated due to the rapid development of WooCommerce they should choose a managed plan for me to manage updates etc. I never heard back.

    Since then they have updated to a minor release of WooCommerce and it's broken a front end feature which showed specific messages (e.g made to order) on specific products.

    Am I being unreasonable in requesting usual hourly rate for fixing this? They are not willing to pay and have stayed the site should be future proofed and all updates should be smooth after two months (which is nonsense.).

    Any advice? Am I right to stand firm on this?

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    pagemap · mini map for web pages

    Posted: 21 Aug 2019 05:16 AM PDT

    Beginner question: Search bar that updates fields as user is typing

    Posted: 21 Aug 2019 11:27 AM PDT

    Hello guys,

    I am trying to use php to implement a search bar on my site that updates images that appear in a field depending on what is typed in the search bar. I'm struggling to understand how I can make it so that if a user enters even one letter (without hitting enter) the field updates with all images that contain that letter in their alt text. Similar to this site's search bar: https://tftactics.gg/champions

    ​

    My understanding of a search bar is to use html forms and use if statements to match what the user enters with the alt text of my images to determine what images to display. I am not familiar with sql and am not sure if this process typically uses sql databases. Any help is greatly appreciated!

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    Temporarily blocking IPs based on multiple 404s

    Posted: 21 Aug 2019 02:56 AM PDT

    I've seen a few security plugins recently that will temporarily block IP addresses if they make multiple requests to pages that don't exist, e.g. 20 404s in 5 minutes. The theory behind it being that these bots are often scanning for vulnerabilities.

    I'm still not sure on the value of this, especially with the potential to ban legitimate crawlers visiting pages that no longer exist. Any thoughts?

    Edit: to clarify, it would block if they made 20 requests to different 404 pages, not just the same one

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    Detecting Offline/Online States With The Offline API

    Posted: 21 Aug 2019 05:07 AM PDT

    Hello Everyone.

    I've been a web developer for 2 years but recently got excited about Offline-first and PWAs.

    I think this its because I live in an offline-first country (Nigeria) and can easily relate to the struggles people coming to the internet from places like these face.

    I've also started writing a lot about Offline-first and PWAs as a way to learn more about them and write better. I would love if you guys could give some feedback on this particular article and possibly spot knowledge gaps and stuff like that.

    https://victorofoegbu.com/blog/detect-offline-online-with-offline-api

    Thanks.

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    Google Earth Cross Platform Beta available now using WebAssembly

    Posted: 21 Aug 2019 02:31 AM PDT

    My company management does not want to go with something like Storybook to test our UI library.

    Posted: 21 Aug 2019 12:08 PM PDT

    Hello,

    Long story short, we are working on some kind of modularized and componentized UI library. Right now it is developed in Polymer (soon to be refactored to lit-html and later other frameworks) [there are reasons behind the use of Polymer, I don't know if I can disclose it here, but that's not the general case and the problem].
    We are at quite early stage of development. I have been continually proposing to go with something like Storybook to test our UI components in isolation and playground-like field. Some of you guys probably know Storybook, it's like visual interactive unit testing for UI components (React, Angular, Vue, many things available at the moment).
    For me personally it is a no-brainer to go for something like that, given the scope of the project. It gives us, the developers, the confidence to release. How are we supposed to release the "bulletproof" and properly tested components quickly if we don't test it in isolated environment before the releases? We want to release in some near future.

    The problem is, that the management does not look like to be in fond of something like Storybook. They are more likely to develop our in-house implementation for the problem, rather than rely on Storybook. Their reasoning goes something like, that they don't want to depend on some solution/company that can go down in a future. They want to mitigate the risk of them depending on some external solutions. And I think, that this is perfectly reasonable in some cases, but I am feeling, that developing that kind of (already established type in the ecosystem) in-house solution will bring a lot of misery upon the developers (taking into consideration the release deadlines that were thrown).
    Why do we need to reinvent the wheel? Is Storybook going down anytime soon? If it is, than what? (F**k that, I mean, we will maybe use something else available at that time. We should strive for agility - use the thing, that works now. Airbnb, Lyft, Dropbox - all of them uses Storybook. They are giants and they are not afraid of using it...and we are much, much smaller than that).

    But the main point of this post is: What can I say to management, so that they understand the importance of it? What could be my arguments? I am running out of ideas, you know. It's like, I wish and want the project the best, but management just isn't listening to the developers.

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    In Gitlab/GitHub pages can the index file be in the root folder or does it have to be in a folder called public?

    Posted: 21 Aug 2019 01:09 AM PDT

    I'm kind of confused.

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    Resources for improving HTML and CSS ?

    Posted: 21 Aug 2019 12:53 PM PDT

    is there a JS30 equivalent for HTML and CSS?

    My goal for the rest of the year is to improve it. I want to be able to create complex UI and structures.

    I find I learn best by doing exercises, repeating them, dissecting them and recreating them with my own spin on it. At the moment I'm just recreating UI components that inspire me. But, I'd like something similar to JS30. I want to know how people are organizing their HTML and CSS. Are BEM and SMACSS still relevant today? Please share

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    Looking For Advice On Implementing A Blog And Hosting Files

    Posted: 21 Aug 2019 12:24 PM PDT

    I am currently building my own personal website from scratch using Bootstrap 4. I have written the homepage and am currently brainstorming on how I'd like to build a Blog page. I want entries to have a basic title-content structure. Do people just have a blog.html file with all of their blog content written in it? Something like

    ​

    <div class="post">

    <h1> Title </h1>

    ...content...

    </div>

    ​

    Is there some sort of best practice for things like this.

    Additionally, how would I go about implementing a blog post that initially is displayed as only a title and upon clicking the title the content "drops" down? What do people use for math typesetting in HTML?

    Thanks In Advance

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    Should I learn DevOps?

    Posted: 21 Aug 2019 12:18 PM PDT

    Okay so hear me out, I am still a beginner so treat me as one. I've been learning nodejs and its server side stack(mongodb, express, etc.) and I already started a simple job as a junior dev, writing my first ever application when im hired, and i am getting close to deploy it. but lastly, i have been getting across a lot of posts on different subreddits about devops, and all i have been reading was stuff i really dont understand, like Kubernetes, pm2, Iaas, etc. and i have no idea if i need them, or should i learn them, so could anyone explain all of those stuff?

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    Web development !== web design. Building designs from dribbble?

    Posted: 21 Aug 2019 03:59 PM PDT

    Sure, a lot of web developers CAN do design, but it's not our forte. What's the protocol on building out designs from dribbble, aside from reaching out to the designer and asking them if you can do so? Is that a thing?

    I don't want to wait til I have a GIANT side project before I can show off my ability to build complex designs on my portfolio.

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    [Question] Where should I even start my journey?

    Posted: 21 Aug 2019 03:14 PM PDT

    Hey guys, I'm currently about to start college going into computer science. I've thought about it long and hard and I think I want to do front end web development. I'm not the best artist but I can do simple things and I'm good at overall layout, so I think it'd be the best fit. I'm pretty sure my college's comp sci program is mostly backend stuff such as learning Java and c++, so most of the javascript stuff will be on me alone. Do you guys have any wisdom you could bestow onto me, or recommendations?

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    Website hosting

    Posted: 21 Aug 2019 10:52 AM PDT

    Hey everybody, I'm currently going to school for web design and development and I created a pretty badass website that I would like to get online that I created with Dreamweaver. What are the best hosting companies that I should look into and why? Please go easy on me I'm new to this. Thanks guys/gals!

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    I feel like I'm losing my passion

    Posted: 21 Aug 2019 10:29 AM PDT

    So, I'm a self taught web developer. Been coding since I was 15 out of a fascination with technology. I studied how computers work down to the physical storing of memory. I've built little DOS clones. I've worked with react and typescript and nginx and raspberry pi servers, but lately I've just... Lost my drive, you know? I don't know what to make. And when I sit down to work on an idea everything gets fuzzy. I'm high functioning autistic so there's a little bit of a disadvantage when it comes to being able to focus while having rapid thoughts. I've got more ideas than I know how to create, but I'm burdened with trying to pre-optimize before I even code. And my job has taken some of my time away but not so much that I can't code. I just, can't find my passion anymore. Maybe life issues have me depressed and it's trickling into my hobby, but does anyone know how to combat it?

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    Thoughts on High Performance Websites

    Posted: 21 Aug 2019 02:07 PM PDT

    Hey all,

    Going off the discussion happening here: https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/ctgbtx/ive_been_lurking_in_this_sub_for_a_few_years_and/

    When thinking about site performance, often people insist one stack is better than another and there are a lot of opinions about how one can do things better than another. Personally, I like to think stacks do not matter and performance of a site only depends on the skill level of the developers behind it. If they know what they're doing, they'll use some stack that can meet the goal they want to reach. Different devs can excel with different stacks.

    So, in that spirit. What websites do you guys like/have worked on/have heard of where you can tell us what stack is being used and that perform quite nicely?
    To keep it simple, let's look at performance in the sense of getting great scores on
    https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
    https://gtmetrix.com/
    https://www.webpagetest.org/

    You can fake them all by making a one page empty site that loads nothing. Let's avoid that?

    It would be nice to see some real world sites that have great performance scores.
    We might all learn a few things too if we see how others have done things to get their sites to be blazing fast.
    Points for doing it cheap, cuz seriously, everyone wants to know how to do this stuff for cheap.
    Points for good SEO, good content, good imagery, animations, etc.
    Points for taking into account Accessibility/ADA compliance.
    Welcome to a game where the points don't matter and we might all learn something new.

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    Who was the first to start using adjectives and nouns in generated URLs?

    Posted: 21 Aug 2019 02:06 PM PDT

    Examples:

    https://example.com/flashypenguin

    https://serene-tower-4269.herokuapp.com

    https://gfycat.com/ablehatefulamericanblackvulture

    I remember Heroku doing it first, but I was wondering if anyone here remembers another "mainstream" example of this occurring. I'm just looking for the origin of the practice.

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