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    Google Chrome now officially has more than 70% of the desktop browser market. - MSPoweruser web developers

    Google Chrome now officially has more than 70% of the desktop browser market. - MSPoweruser web developers


    Google Chrome now officially has more than 70% of the desktop browser market. - MSPoweruser

    Posted: 02 Jul 2020 08:43 AM PDT

    Web Devs of Reddit, What are the Harsh Truths that People should know about being a Web Developer?

    Posted: 01 Jul 2020 10:01 PM PDT

    I took inspiration from r/ITCareerQuestions and I want to hear on the Web Developers specifically so I want to hear the harsh truths that newcomers should know before choosing to be a Web Developer?

    Just follow-up questions: Also, is The Military a good way to start in IT and where to start as well If you're a beginner. Also, do you have to be good at Math? Or a College Degree would help or required?

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    Am I the only web developer who strongly dislikes React?

    Posted: 02 Jul 2020 01:46 PM PDT

    It seems like you can't find a web development job without React experience requirement these days and learning it should assist me greatly, but, for some reason, I really don't like the whole React ecosystem and don't buy into the cult of doing everything the React way.

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    Simple Transition between html pages

    Posted: 02 Jul 2020 03:17 PM PDT

    Hi all, see my site here: https://zayn.world/ When the "enter" link is clicked, I want a gif to display fullscreen for about half a second, then the about page to display after.

    I was thinking having a second page inbetween which has this gif and autoredirects after half a second.. if thats possible without javascript..

    I would prefer a non-javascript solution even if it is more work and slightly less elegant but im open to all ideas, Im not sure where to start on this so I thought I'd ask before I waste a lot of time!

    Thanks!

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    To web devs who develop overseas. What is it like moving to another country and taking your skills there?

    Posted: 02 Jul 2020 06:23 PM PDT

    How is work? How is life? How different is coding in a different language? Or does it stay the same?

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    How much react to know for React.js?

    Posted: 02 Jul 2020 02:26 PM PDT

    I have completed a 20 hour JS course on Udemy and am currently starting a Node.js course. I was going to start on React.js but i heard i need to learn CSS and idk how much of CSS i need to know. I want to get into react but i know very basic html and css. How much css should i know for react?

    Is a 1 hour CSS video on YouTube enough?

    Do i have to do the All the CSS and Bootstrap lessons from Colt Steele's Web Dev course before i can get started on react?

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    Help? I'm a complete beginner and the "view in browser" option in sublime is not working.

    Posted: 02 Jul 2020 06:01 PM PDT

    I just started learning html a few hours ago at freecodecamp.org while watching Traversy Media's crash course for absolute beginners and as he is creating a file, the file automatically extends to Google Chrome by only typing index.html something I can't do and he also has this view option inside the folder which I also don't have, probably because my OS is still windows 7.

    So I just kept going and and installed Sublime and it's packages including the "Install View in Browser" so after I finished typing "Hello World" in Sublime, as a quick sample. I clicked Tools then View in Browser but nothing happened. What should I do?

    submitted by /u/Kantegorical
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    Best UI/UX courses for web developers?

    Posted: 02 Jul 2020 05:41 PM PDT

    I'm tired of my websites looking like shit and taking hours to design. I'd like a good and short course for basic principles with live coding examples

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    Hover affect is making my icon huge!

    Posted: 02 Jul 2020 05:39 PM PDT

    #icon-trash:hover { width: 25px; height: 25px; overflow: hidden; margin-left: 1200px; margin-top: -93px; position: relative; background-color: red; } 

    It actually enlarges when Im not hovering on it and returns to its normal size when I mouse off of it

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    £5k Unit Accredited Course or Online?

    Posted: 02 Jul 2020 07:35 AM PDT

    Sorry if I'm breaking any rules, I've been made redundant but I've always wanted to learn web development. There is a home study course which costs around £5k that teaches "full stack" but I can't really afford it. What draws me to it is that it is certified/accredited by a university. There are so many online courses for a fraction of the cost (if not free). My question is whether the accreditation means anything to an employer? Thanks in advance.

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    Iframes are all i know, and they don't work... Can anyone help me???

    Posted: 02 Jul 2020 02:55 PM PDT

    So there is a free map utility like google maps called Mapbox, you may have heard of it. They offer an embeddable map for your website that can do many things using their SDK. They have a paid tier for doing super advanced things on websites with lots of traffic, which we do not need. After I called Mapbox , they said the project I am interested in implementing would fall under their free tier. As for the project itself, I work for an antenna company and would like to get a web developer/coder to help us integrate Mapbox into our site. The fcc has a Mapbox on their site that you can use to check your tv signal reception in your location. Although I have advanced video editing skills and minor WordPress experience, I am not familiar with any code or scripting. I only do very basic WordPress work, so when I tried to embed the site in an iframe so our website was like a window to their site, it was blocked through the fcc header. The info on the fcc website regarding where the tv towers are is public info and Mapbox has said their free tier should work with the amount of traffic we have (not much). I know its possible since it is on the fcc website. If anyone out there could help me figure out either how to embed the map and tower location search section of the fcc page, that is already created, into our page; or if someone out there could help me get one up and running on our website that is as accurate as the fcc one? Our site is Lava Electronics (https://lavasat.com) and has just been redesigned with WordPress and Here is the fcc map I am referring to: https://www.fcc.gov/media/engineering/dtvmaps

    Other sites on the net have something similar like antennas direct or tv fool. We would like to have the same thing without directing customers elsewhere that can give customers an idea of what antenna would work best for them. We also want the info provided to be accurate since some of the sites out there are not. Mainly one of our resellers, not to be mentioned, is consistently giving customers the wrong antenna recommendations due to them giving out the wrong tv tower info which is making them exchange their purchase or return it outright. We would like to show the same info the fcc site does as it seems to be the most accurate and easy to understand with its color-coded system and compass heading info.

    Please let me know if you think you can accomplish either copying the fcc reception map over to our site or if you think you can make one completely from scratch that is just as accurate. We want it to show how strong the signals are by color, what channels number it is, what the compass heading is to any tower the customer is interested in, and maybe the TV station call sign, power level, and more if possible. If it ends up being so simple, I just have to add one line of code, let me know in the comments below please because as far as I could find, there doesn't seem to be a quick fix to clip a section on the fcc website and embed it in our own.

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    Browser Testing in 2020?

    Posted: 02 Jul 2020 08:46 AM PDT

    Hey everybody!

    So in my years of development, browser testing has been pretty straight forward. Look at users analytics, test the last X amount of versions of top browsers on common resolutions on desktop, tablets, phones. Test on actual devices, browserstack, emulators etc.

    Like most of you I have seen it all, clients not clearing cache, having their browser window resized to some odd proportion, browser zoomed in all the way. But this week was the first where a users OS(Specifically windows 10) had their laptop display set to 150% by default. 13 inch laptop with a native 1920 x 1080 resolution.

    It seems this is more common with the trend of putting large resolution screens in smaller devices.

    How do you guys go about testing nowadays? With all the different screen sizes and resolutions out there? I feel like it would be impossible to account for 13-17 inch(laptops) with various base resolutions with zoom levels.

    For example my buddy has a Dell that is a 4k base resolution but windows recommends the zoom be 300%.

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    "the web thrives or declines to the extent it can accomplish the lion's share of the things we expect most computers to do" - Platform Adjacency Theory

    Posted: 02 Jul 2020 02:37 PM PDT

    How do y'all handle a ticket that requires deeper research to estimate during backlog grooming?

    Posted: 02 Jul 2020 02:33 PM PDT

    For most tickets the estimation is pretty simple. At least one developer usually knows enough about the systems and codebase to help with the estimation.

    But what do you do when, to properly decompose and estimate a ticket, someone needs to spend significant time researching a system or codebase before providing an estimate?

    You can't do that during backlog grooming because there is not enough time.

    How have you handled this situation that worked well?

    submitted by /u/maybeyourcoworker1
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    Scrum: Do developers work on Story tickets? Or are development focused tickets created to support a Story?

    Posted: 02 Jul 2020 10:45 AM PDT

    (We use Atlassian Jira, so some of my language may refer to something specific to Jira)
    (I have been recently promoted to team lead and I am in charge of running sprint planning)

    Our process: The Product Owner creates a bunch of Story tickets with detailed acceptance criteria and requirements. These Stories are prioritized in the backlog.

    At first, we would assign each Story to a developer and decomp the story ticket into sub-tasks issues in Jira.

    One issue we had with this is that often a couple Stories could be completed from the same development work. Also, one developer was pretty adamant that developers should not get assigned a Story ticket directly to work on. He says that Story tickets are just for Product.

    So we created a new top-level ticket type called "Development Task". So now we create Development tasks for the specific dev work that needs to be done and link them to Stories. So if 2 Stories can be resolved by one Development task, then we would just link them in Jira. Usually it is one Dev Task per Story and sometimes a Dev Tasks will have sub-tasks.

    The problem is the the Product Owner only cares about Stories, so she wants to see the Story progress on our Sprint Board. So now developers need to keep track of 2 tickets per "issue" and move them along the Sprint Board.

    Also QA finds it a little cumbersome to have to following these links between Dev Tasks to Stories which is where the requirements live.

    My thought is what we are doing is unnecessarily complicated. I also haven't seen some rule where developers don't work on Story tickets directly (I could be wrong).

    At this point, I just want us to master a standard sprint before we just customizing for our team. I feel like a lot of the early decisions were made by people who don't full understand Scrum.

    I am fully prepared to be told I am wrong. But also just want some thoughts to improve our process.

    submitted by /u/maybeyourcoworker1
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    Is it normal for a client asking you not to use any CSS framework?

    Posted: 02 Jul 2020 02:29 PM PDT

    The client has gone part of the way through a playlist on Vue and he wants to create a highly efficient website. He previously used site builders.

    I suggested PurgeCSS, it kinda works pretty good and I like using bootstrap.

    But he insisted I try to write everything in raw CSS.

    But I absolutely hate writing CSS from ground up.

    Are there other tools to use like PurgeCSS that can get me as close to a clean CSS and do tree shaking automatically and effectively with using BootstrapVue?

    submitted by /u/anyfactor
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    Help on HTML forms

    Posted: 02 Jul 2020 02:14 PM PDT

    I need some help understanding how should I handle forms server side.

    I created a simple website and I wanted to add a login page with a page only available after the login. I tried searching on how to implement that server side with python but everything I found was using django or flask but routing the whole website trough it. But I would like to avoid that

    Is there a way to implement just the login and the page behind it in flask for instance or should I move the whole website to a flask app?

    Probably I'm getting everything wrong on this subject and if that's the case please tell me. I'm still learning so any bit of help or criticism on how I'm trying to implement that mechanism is really appreciated

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    Free Webinar for new devs

    Posted: 02 Jul 2020 01:57 PM PDT

    Delete if not allowed. Just wanted to share Stout Systems is hosting free webinars every Tuesday for getting hired into the technology sector. Mostly for recent grads, but some are career management stuff. Event calendar: www.stoutsystems.com/events.

    submitted by /u/i_just_wanna_learn_
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    Books for how to build websites for ecommerce?

    Posted: 02 Jul 2020 01:19 PM PDT

    Are there books or websites for teaching how to build websites for ecommerce and maybe other purposes? Thanks.

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    Is XML dead?

    Posted: 01 Jul 2020 08:45 PM PDT

    Almost every application I see uses JSON or simply sends data in POST body to transmit data between the browser and server, is XML dead?

    By dead I don't mean no one uses it but it's very rarely used these days, right?

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    Best hosting providers for videos that provide a download link?

    Posted: 02 Jul 2020 12:39 PM PDT

    I'm currently hosting a few mp4 files on firebase storage which works quite well, how ever firebase hosting will most likely be too expensive ($0.12/GB downloaded) in production.

    My app shows quite a lot of videos, similar to Instagram (but users wont upload themselfe). I have thought about just using YouTube or Vimeo as video hosting but there are two problems:

    1. I need access to a download link for the mobile app
    2. I might need to download videos and store them on the users device. As far as I know thats against YouTube guidelines (At least there are no YouTube downloader apps allowed in the app store)

    So what are the best (file) hosting providers that are fairly cheap and still offer good performance? With file hosting, I mean anything where I can upload an mp4 file and have access to a mp4 download link.

    submitted by /u/jwknows
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    Storage solution for new project

    Posted: 02 Jul 2020 11:32 AM PDT

    I'm thinking of starting a new project because shit will hit the fan soon for me and my company.
    This project is basically a platform for big companies to manage invoices, projects, users, etc.
    The thing is that the users on this platform will work with files (many files and large ones for that matter) and I am searching for a solution to this. Plus there is the privacy concern since the files are really sensitive.
    Other solutions for this kind of platform exist (they are not complete in my opinion) but their approach is to install a server on the client's network and have everything there. This makes the customer responsible for providing infrastructure and storage and the solution provider to offer support. The advantage here is that all the files are on the customer's infrastructure so there is no madness about how secure and private are those files.
    I would like to build a service where these guys connect on a website (or desktop app) to a cloud infrastructure and do the work there. I know the storage costs will skyrocket, but I am thinking that the subscriptions should cover them (haven't done the math yet...)
    So the question is: is there any solution for wiring a web app (or a desktop app) to a remote storage with decent latency?
    I'm also thinking about a per-customer encryption solution because most companies in this field are really afraid of storing this kind of data in the cloud (so that the cloud provider has access to their data). I'm thinking that the client's users log in to the platform and provide some company-wide key to gain access to the encrypted storage.
    Ideas?

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    Web Monetisation Strategies

    Posted: 02 Jul 2020 11:32 AM PDT

    I'm trying to consider all the options available to monetise a website that I am in the process of developing. The website in question is a trivia style game. So far I have come up with:

    1. Affiliate links & Accepting donations - I like the thought of these but I get the impression that it could be very hit and miss actually generating a steady or (any) revenue this way
    2. Displaying ads & Selling users data - I feel like these two would generate the most steady income but I would never sell users data for ethical reasons and I hate the thought of displaying ads on any of my websites
    3. Web monetisation api & becoming a brave creator - I like these as well but as they are both new niche technologies I honestly can't see this generating much revenue
    4. Subscriptions - I don't think this would suit my particular project
    5. Microtransactions - I could offer microtransactions as another method of obtaining in game power ups etc. However I would like to avoid this one if possible for ethical reasons as well

    At the moment I plan on using all of the above minus ads, selling data users data and microtransactions. I am wondering though if I am wrong in any of my assumptions above and are there any other options I haven't considered?

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