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    Mozilla lays off 250 employees web developers

    Mozilla lays off 250 employees

    Posted: 11 Aug 2020 10:51 AM PDT

    API design guidance - Best practices for cloud applications

    Posted: 11 Aug 2020 12:57 AM PDT

    When the back button doesn't work...

    Posted: 11 Aug 2020 01:21 PM PDT

    ...because the window.history.back() stack is filled with links of the page i'm on. What is that behaviour called, if anybody here knows what i mean?

    It feels like the website doesn't want you to go back and builds a wall of 'back-links' that you have to click through and after 10+ of those history entries you land maybe on the site you came from.

    I hope i could explain that behaviour somehow. It's really annoying, and i always described it as 'backlog-wall'. I apologize if this isn't the right sub.

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    Adobe - Today, we are announcing the end of development for PhoneGap and PhoneGap Build and the end of our investment in Apache Cordova. The PhoneGap Build service will be discontinued on October 1, 2020

    Posted: 11 Aug 2020 06:58 AM PDT

    What are your thoughts on learning by building small toy apps to reinforce learning concepts as compared to just working on a full-stack web app?

    Posted: 11 Aug 2020 02:49 PM PDT

    So i've been following The Odin Project for some time now and noticed that there are quite a lot of small web app projects to build in each module before ultimately getting to the capstone project where you begin working on a portfolio ready full-stack web app using MERN for example. I find that it takes me about 10-20hrs to complete one of these toy projects without using tutorials for what should be simple things like "tic-tac-toe" or "calculator". I'm wondering if it would be better spent to just dive deep into learning the MERN stack via Odin, FCC, Udemy and just work on a full-scale project instead of spending time on the small building block projects. I don't necessarily want to take any shortcuts on my path to dev but I'm wondering if diving deep into a big project like this could help accelerate my learning? My goal is to be employable sooner rather than later obviously but I don't want to be out of a job in a month because I didn't double-down on creating small projects with each new technology/concept that I learn.

    TLDR: Should I stick to building small web apps to build up my skillset or should I just skip those and work on a MERN app?

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    How to create this load on scroll effect?

    Posted: 11 Aug 2020 09:37 AM PDT

    Looking for an alternative to XAMPP for local testing and development that is easy to update (for Windows)

    Posted: 11 Aug 2020 02:49 AM PDT

    The title says it all: I want a local webserver with PHP and MySQL for local development and testing (mostly Joomla stuff)

    I would like to be able to easily update or switch PHP / MySQL versions. Right now I use the portable versions of XAMPP, but everytime I want to change something, I have to manually copy over all the config files and setup the users etc. Which is a cumbersome PITA. And I thought: it's 2020, maybe I don't have to do it like it's 1999. So: is there a smarter solution?

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    How would I build a script that can build simple REST Api's

    Posted: 11 Aug 2020 07:42 AM PDT

    I'm looking for a way to build an api from an xml or jspn file describing the structure, endpoints, and database schemas. Would a template engine be good for this?

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    Do employers look at your code or just the website itself?

    Posted: 11 Aug 2020 02:33 AM PDT

    I'm not incredibly experienced, but I do know that my code isn't the most efficient or prettiest. Anyways, I will be applying to Jr. positions soon, but I was wondering if employers go over your code or do they just skim through your projects?

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    Landing a decent job as a web developer?

    Posted: 11 Aug 2020 03:46 PM PDT

    So, I'm a mid-level dev. I've worked at a couple software consultancies and have had my work used by Fortune 500 companies (clients of the consultancies I worked for). But I haven't had a good job since 2017.

    I got let go from my last good, permanent job because I was in the hospital too long and they hired someone else to take over my work. (about that, I haven't been to the hospital since 2018 and I've been on medication that keeps me healthy)

    Since the end of that job, I've been taking on small 4-figure projects as a freelancer here and there. It has been 3 years, and I haven't had a full-time, long-term job.

    I've tried everything. Reddit, Indeed, Angel List, Linkedin, some indie job boards like wellpaid and weworkremotely. I get far into the interview process, and I do well on the coding challenges (and sometimes exceptionally, as noted by one company), but I never get an offer.

    Is this due to my lack of stability in holding down a job for such a long time? I don't know what to do at this point.

    For anyone hiring, I'm a Python / Django developer with 6 years of professoinal experience. My resume is at https://gradient.truesoft.co/resume and my github is https://github.com/mikejohnsonjr (mostly small projects here. If you want to see more code, send me your email so I can invite you to some of my private bitbucket repos)

    Please help

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    What’s your experience with ‘remote’ web dev jobs/internships?

    Posted: 10 Aug 2020 05:47 PM PDT

    I'm a high school and college student (part time) I was looking to possibly get a part time or internship in web development in about 6 months to a year (maybe next summer).

    I definitely have the skillset. I know full stack and I am working on learning more and more technologies. I am also working on a portfolio with a few full stack applications to apply.

    There are quite a few remote internships that I have found online (nearest on location ones are a 40 minute drive).

    My question: Would a company even hire me for an internship still being in high school? And is it stupid that I want to get a web development job as a summer job?

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    ¿Useful webdev tools online?

    Posted: 11 Aug 2020 03:27 PM PDT

    Hi, I just found out about https://www.cssmatic.com/ that helps you generate css code in an interactive way.

    ¿Do you know other useful webdev online tools similar to this one?

    Thanks!

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    How to position HTML with CSS faster?

    Posted: 11 Aug 2020 03:22 PM PDT

    Hello, I use codepen to practice my coding skills and I was wondering if there is a more efficient way to position HTML items in CSS? Whenever I'm making just a simple website, I end up spending a lot of time on just a simple thing. For example, when I want the elements in one position, I put top: 315px;,wait 5 seconds for it to load the changes, and then see where it's at and decrease it by 5px, wait another 5 seconds, see that it's not right, and just keep on doing that and so on.

    This process ends up with me spending over 1 hour on just a simple positioning. So my final question is this, am I doing it right? And if this is how you do it, is there anything to help me having to spend less time on it?

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    React App Auth Code Flow Tutorial?

    Posted: 11 Aug 2020 03:01 PM PDT

    Does anyone know a good tutorial for teaching how to use an Express server between a React app and OAuth protected service? It's kind of complicted and I could use some end to end guidance, but it seems tutorials typically want to use the less secure Implicit grant flow since it's point to point (React to OAuth server).

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    Anybody know of any free North American VIN decoder API I can use?

    Posted: 11 Aug 2020 02:48 PM PDT

    I hope since I'm asking for something that's free this will not violate rule 4.

    I was using the NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) API but it's been giving my users too many problems with slow loading. Does anyone know of any good ones?

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    Other than getting an SSL certificate , are there any steps in setting up a website that may not be obvious to a beginner?

    Posted: 11 Aug 2020 02:40 PM PDT

    I'm not an expert even though I've played around with web development, but I'm trying to crack down and improve my skills. I'm especially terrible with things outside actually the actual development/coding. Once I have my domain and hosting set up, what are some things I should do to run the site smoothly?

    edit: I'm running laravel on xamp locally. I'll likely be trying digital ocean for hosting.

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    Should i take notes ?

    Posted: 11 Aug 2020 02:31 PM PDT

    Im learning web development on freecodecamp.

    Should I take notes or do you all just google stuff what you forget ?

    Im asking this only because its really slowing me down and I dont know if its worth it.

    Also i deleted all my notes and i dont want to do them again if its just not worth it

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    Using a jQuery variable in PHP using cookies

    Posted: 11 Aug 2020 08:30 AM PDT

    So from what I can gather a good way to do this is with cookies.

    I have this:

    // Function to create the cookie function createCookie(name, value, days) { var expires; if (days) { var date = new Date(); date.setTime(date.getTime() + (days * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000)); expires = "; expires=" + date.toGMTString(); } else { expires = ""; } document.cookie = escape(name) + "=" + escape(value) + expires + "; path=/"; } // Creating a cookie after the document is ready createCookie("cook", "balls", "10"); });

    And I have this as my PHP:

    <?php echo $_COOKIE["balls"]; ?>

    This nicely echoes the value of the cookie, which in this case is balls.

    But what I want to do is find the content of a specific div (.test-title in this case) on the page, and I thought that the way to do this would be with:

     // Creating a cookie after the document is ready var balls = jQuery( ".test-title" ); createCookie("cook", balls, "10");

    But, my balls variable is not being displayed as the cookie's value.

    So where am I going wrong?

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    Webapp that creates a giant sale section with all your favorite stores (Nike, Ralph Lauren, Guess)

    Posted: 11 Aug 2020 02:17 PM PDT

    Which Speed Test To Trust

    Posted: 11 Aug 2020 10:20 AM PDT

    I was recently contacted by one of the managers in my company looking to improve website performance. They said that the site got only a 26 on Google PageSpeed and, obviously, they wanted to improve this to 90 or above. The first thing I did was run my own report using GTMetrix. However, this reported that the PageSpeed score was 78%. I was able to tweak a few things to bring it to 85%. Meanwhile, YSlow in that report is saying 68%. I ran another report via Pingdom and got a 70. However, when I go to https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights, I get a 19.

    Are GTMetrix and Pingdom giving me scores that are too high? Is Google PageSpeed giving me a score that's too low? Are they all testing different things? What I didn't like about PageSpeed vs GTMetrix was that PageSpeed didn't give me many details on what was wrong and how to fix it. GTMetrix, on the other hand, gave me a ton of details and instructions on how to improve my results. (Also, I'm being vague on the actual site in question because I try to keep my Reddit account separate from my work for various reasons.)

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    reporting for clients on web

    Posted: 11 Aug 2020 02:02 PM PDT

    What to use for my project?

    Posted: 11 Aug 2020 01:52 PM PDT

    Hey webdevs,

    before I start with the actual coding, I would love to hear your thoughts on what I should use for a project with the following outline:

    1. 10 users at most
    2. login, 2factor-auth not really needed, need to send mails to users sometimes
    3. user can create articles by inserting title and text in a field
    4. user can upload images related to that article
    5. images have to meet some requirements
    6. user can edit the article for a certain timeframe (days, not minutes)
    7. export user generated articles including their image files (privacy is of concern)
    8. external processing (may sound fancy, means a person will compose all this with inDesign)

    I was thinking about a simple frontend (html/css/js). I could also use React but considered it to be overkill.

    Developing and maintaining the site will be my burden for the foreseeable future (saves me time documenting and handing over, costs me time supporting users, client is a nonprofit).

    I am not sure at all what to use on the backend side of things and terribly afraid to crack a walnut with a sledgehammer. The possible solution to the backend side of things should be lean: to give you an idea, I'll probably render .txt files and just save the images provided, force their names to be titleOfArticle_n+1, perhaps zip it and mail it to get it out of my jurisdiction so to speak.

    Let me hear what you think about that, I am open to all of your ideas as I want to learn from this pro bono case and perhaps stride from my beaten path for a bit.

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    Somehow broke my image board layout?

    Posted: 11 Aug 2020 01:50 PM PDT

    Is the future of front-end web in 3D?

    Posted: 11 Aug 2020 03:17 AM PDT

    Looking at the web this day and age all I can see is fancy 2D animations with nice pictures. Of course it's mostly due to hardware limitations. We've come a long way from fancy Christmas GIFs to quite the intriguing landscape photos that make you feel like you're there (at least for me that is). But how will this continue?

    3D isn't the newest thing on the web - I know that - but I can't find a lot of applications where 3D is embraced in a real product for consumers. I was also surprised about the amount of supported devices for WebGL.

    I quit my job to try and make a living out of this (https://zuncreative.com) so I guess I've made my point on how I feel about all this. But what about you guys, what will be the shape of the future front-end web? 2D or 3D?

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