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- Do I quit? Does it ever get better?
- What do you guys do when you feel like you wasted a days worth of studying/coding only to accomplish nothing?
- A Complete Guide To CSS Media Queries
- Built a site from scratch for friends using a CMS - Any way to switch over?
- How do you handle your backend as freelance developer?
- Beginner looking to Freelance due to necessity. What would be the best practices to go about it?
- Does anyone know a library that lets you put this effect on your site? I could've sworn I saw a library like this at some point but I forgot what it's called.
- Question about domains
- Shared server/sync strategy for development database on project with multiple devs?
- Custom CSS vs. Using a Framework
- Considering a career change to web design/development— mind sharing some insight?! Thanks :)
- What are the current alternatives to AdSense to have a SPA support its own hosting cost?
- Submit button for form gets squished on all mobile browsers and I cannot figure out why
- Does anyone know how this `scroll to zoom` is done on the Apple website?
- Just released an NPM package to aid in reading/search for/writing binary data in the browser
- How do I prepare looking for a job as a fresh grad?
- How would I make up for lost time on a resume if I don't want to be known as the owner of a company (because my identity is anonymous)? Could I reference myself as "lead web dev" rather than owner if I did that work?
- CSS Grid : How Auto placement algorithm works
- Questions regarding freelancing as a web developer
- Github Should Embed a Screen-Recorder in Their Issue-Tracker, So Bug-Reporters Can Record Their Bugs
- COMPLETE walk-through of production build?
- Mozilla issues with Pseudo- Elements like custom checkboxes!
- I'm new to web dev and am having a ton of trouble getting my front end and back end to connect to one another using WebSockets on Google Cloud, can someone help?
- How to integrate frontend and backend (DRF + react or angular)
| Do I quit? Does it ever get better? Posted: 04 Oct 2020 04:34 AM PDT 3 years ago, I decided I wanted to become a web developer. Now, 4 years later, I am on the verge of giving up. I'm 22, and jobless because of a few mistakes on my part and corona. I have a BSc, and yet I cannot find a job or an internship. I am in the Middle East, and nobody wants to hire newbies here. In 2018, I had to intern, I got one out of pity, and unpaid one where I had to spend money on transport. I thought I'll earn it back once I graduated. Now, a year after graduation, I'm wondering if I made the wrong decision and if I should give up on my dreams. I am willing to do a WFH unpaid internship and have been emailing companies and no response. I had to do a 'test' for a job listing. Made a static website and did not get any response or feedback. I have been called for interviews and rejected because I don't have the experience. They don't want to hire freshers but they want people with experience. Nobody wants to even give people an unpaid internship. Why? Because they cannot accept work from home. I am miserable, I am extremely depressed. I don't know what to do, I have no guidance or anyone to ask for help. I am tired of having my dreams broken. I keep telling myself to have patience but the future seems so bleak. I always imagined I'd be happy at 22, maybe working, or studying. I want to help my parents out financially since we've been on hard times since 2019. But I can't even do that. All I want to do is give up so I don't make my mental health worse. EDIT: thank you all for the responses! I feel much better about my future now after getting some motivation from everyone. It really means so much! I am extremely overwhelmed by the responses on here and thankful that there's so many people out there who want to help x EDIT #2: a lot of people suggested to me that I'm being too hard on myself, and I realized that they are right. I need to focus on my mental health as well. I have been putting a lot of pressure on myself to achieve the expectations I had set for myself. I am burning myself out. I do have time, unlike what my brain tells me, and I have not failed. You people have made me realize that. I have decided a course of action. I am going to strengthen my skills and perhaps do freelance work as experience. I really want to remove this post but I'm not going to because I want people to see it. I want them to know it gets better and I want them to see theres people out there who care and want to help. Once again, thank you all for your support. I feel better than I have in months, and it's all because of you guys. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 04 Oct 2020 06:16 AM PDT I just spent like 5-6ish hours trying to get a Navbar to center a logo image inside of it in bootstrap and I got nowhere. It really discouraged me because it feels like I'm not really learning anything some thing that seems so SIMPLE as well me putting precious man hours into it. Like if someone asked me what I learned I wouldn't be able to tell them anything substantial cause all I did was be stuck on one problem for hours on end. How do you guys deal with feeling a bit...useless I would say? I definitely do have some good days where everything goes smoothly and then some days for doing taking forever coding stuff that I should probably know how to do. Idk why but this whole issues just made me question this as a career choice for me and I just felt a bit down and like I never wanted to do any coding for a while if I would just waste time doing stuff like this. [link] [comments]  | ||
| A Complete Guide To CSS Media Queries Posted: 04 Oct 2020 06:37 AM PDT
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| Built a site from scratch for friends using a CMS - Any way to switch over? Posted: 04 Oct 2020 11:57 AM PDT So a couple of my friends are in a band and they're trying to improve their online presence. They have a website that the guitarist made in GoDaddy's website builder, but it's not the best and he doesn't have time to update it. I've been looking for a web project so I decided to challenge myself to see if I could build a better website from scratch. I spent the last three weeks creating a site in PHP, CSS, Javascript with an SQL database to store news articles and show listings, then I made a custom admin page so the guys can go in and add announcements and concerts as soon as they come up. Overall it turned out way better than I expected. I showed my project to the band yesterday and they loved it so much that they want to replace their current site with mine ASAP. The problem is, they understandably still want to keep their existing URL with GoDaddy, and they'd like to continue using GoDaddy's e-commerce system for their merch. I've been poking at GoDaddy and I'm not sure how to go about migrating from the old site to the new one. GoDaddy's website builder does allow custom HTML, but not custom PHP or databases, so I can't simply overwrite it. Changing their hosting plan to use CPanel looks like an option, but I'm not sure whether switching plans would nuke their current merch store. Is there any standard practice for migrating a site from a CMS to fully-custom code, or did I completely break protocol here? [link] [comments]  | ||
| How do you handle your backend as freelance developer? Posted: 04 Oct 2020 10:08 AM PDT I am finishing my masters and I've started developing a few websites here and there to get started as a freelancer. However, I'm feeling really lost in regards to handling user data. I build a project with a custom PHP backend and SQL for login and content management but that seemed like a huge chore to get into for every single project that I do. So I thought I should try a headless CMS. I made a project with Strapi now and it kind of sucks because it's really buggy and I'm dependent on the creators to get them fixed. I've looked at alternatives and they're usually like 30 bucks a month. I don't think my target group which is small restaurants and hair salons are willing to pay that much just to update their prices and menus once a year. So I was hoping to get some ideas from you guys who have been doing this for a while. what do you do? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Beginner looking to Freelance due to necessity. What would be the best practices to go about it? Posted: 04 Oct 2020 05:52 AM PDT Hello everyone, first time posting here. First of all, my pleasure to meet you, I am Tyr. And i am from Venezuela. Where i am from things are pretty brutal and i am in desperate need of income to support my family. I used to do freelance graphic design, but the monthly amount required to have a decent meal has gone up exponentially in the past few years. (For some context, My wife is a doctor and she gets paid about $3/mo and the living cost is around the $500 - $700/mo this year. We could live 2 years ago with ~$50/mo) So i started studying web development as i needed to increase our income, and i am still pretty noob at it, i understand HTML and CSS a fair bit now, and i am getting the handle of JS. But due to necessity, i need to start finding some clients if possible now, so i am asking you guys and pardon me if this is not allowed. What would be the best practices or the "proper" way of doing things, how to handle hosting, prices and working with invoices and such? Also, would it be worth it to go on sites like Upwork? I've seen some videos about other developers getting some success there, but they started a long time ago on those sites. I dont want to be a charity case for you guys, i would just like to be pointed in the right direction. Obviously i would love to get a job, but i know i still have a way to go. Thank you for reading this, and forgive me if i am breaking any rules by posting this. Have a nice day, Tyr. [link] [comments]  | ||
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| Posted: 04 Oct 2020 12:05 PM PDT I have hosting with namecheap for my personal portfolio. I'm working on a project and have hosted it under a subdomain, for example https://project.myportfolio.com If I want a domain for this project, how can I essentially make a domain work so that the user navigates to https://coolproject.com and sees the https://project.myportfolio.com content, but with the url staying at https://coolproject.com in the browser? Is a masked redirect the correct way to go about this? I also want everything after the .com to remain functional, so using GET variables in php would still stay functional. I've not played with domains for a while and if i recall correctly last time I tried to use a masked domain it didn't function this way but I could have done something terribly wrong. Thanks for any help. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Shared server/sync strategy for development database on project with multiple devs? Posted: 04 Oct 2020 11:16 AM PDT At work, we used to have a local shared development database for our Wordpress and homebrew CMS projects. Now with COVID, most of us are working remotely, and the connection to the DB via VPN is pretty slow. We tried having a cloud server on AWS, but it's actually most of the times slower. Most of the devs are now just running a local DB instead, but we don't really have a good efficient way to sync the data back to the others without overwriting everything or having conflicts with post IDs. For those working in an agency or with other people in general on the same project, how are you sharing your development database? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Custom CSS vs. Using a Framework Posted: 04 Oct 2020 02:45 PM PDT I'm working on a web app that also has traditional website aspects to it and during my building phase I have been heavily relying on Bootstrap to wire it together. I'm at the point where I want to give the site it's own personality and Bootstrap looks so generic. I'm wondering if I should look into another framework or make my own CSS from ground up which feels more like reinventing the wheel since grid systems better than I could ever build already exist. Would it be unethical to take the CSS from an existing framework and add my own flavoring to it? Thanks for any input. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Considering a career change to web design/development— mind sharing some insight?! Thanks :) Posted: 04 Oct 2020 02:26 PM PDT Hi everyone! I'm brand new to the tech world and would love to hear some insider perspectives and advice :) About me: I have a background in nursing and am currently working as a Licensed Aesthetician just outside of Nashville,TN. As with many others, 2020 has shaken my sense of security in my current career field. In high school, I learned some VERY basic HTML and CSS coding from friends and did quite enjoy it. Though I do well in customer service positions, I'm honestly more of an introvert and enjoy having task-oriented projects to complete rather than being a hired people-pleaser. I'm in my late twenties, newly married, and would like to soak up as much knowledge and experience as I can—I'm especially aiming to settle into a secure career which I enjoy before we decide to have kids. I've spoken with some friends in the tech industry and it's been refreshing to hear employers are focused mainly on your abilities rather than requiring institutionalized education as I'm not really looking to get into formal schooling again. Recently, I've been watching online tutorials to learn more about web design/development and a software engineer friend of mine has offered to help teach me and will be helping me on some very simple projects soon to get my feet wet. I'd just really love to hear the good, bad, and the ugly about the field. I'm open to any suggestions and resources that you think may be helpful, as well! Right now it does honestly seem pretty intimidating and overwhelming as I'm just now learning about this field so I'm trying to figure out where and how to even begin. TLDR: background in nursing, currently working as Licensed Aesthetician just outside of Nashville. Enjoyed learning VERY basic HTML and CSS coding back in high school and currently looking into a career in web design/development since I enjoy task-oriented projects and my security in my current field has really been shaken this year. Hoping to bypass traditional schooling and looking for guidance, resources, and insight to get started. [link] [comments]  | ||
| What are the current alternatives to AdSense to have a SPA support its own hosting cost? Posted: 04 Oct 2020 02:07 PM PDT Hi. I did use the search and saw similar questions, but i felt most of the times the discussion sort of got away from the point 😅 So let me start by saying I am not trying to flow my users with Ads. And also this is my first not-done-at-work project that I will actually open to everyone. So quite a noob about all this. What I have in mind is a couple of banner/ads that totally fit the App without being too much "in the face" and not affecting the user experience. Even more because the app will be mostly use on mobile (it is responsive). But since I will have some costs with hosting it, and maybe with the Atlas Mongo if the app gets a lot of users, I would want to use one of the seemingly many options out there, to recover part of it. However being a SPA done on the MEAN Stack without ssr (at least for now) and mostly content that will load once the user has logged in to his account, adSense doesn't seem the right fit. I heard about some Amazon program where we basically get a share if some product is sold. But again not sure if it is the right fit. If someone has experience, I would very much appreciate. Thank you P.S btw I am always curious about this site that I usually frequent, since it seems a SPA to me and it has ads. Www.futbin.com (fifa players will know it). If they are indeed a SPA, then how did they get approved? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Submit button for form gets squished on all mobile browsers and I cannot figure out why Posted: 04 Oct 2020 09:06 AM PDT
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| Does anyone know how this `scroll to zoom` is done on the Apple website? Posted: 04 Oct 2020 11:41 AM PDT
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| Just released an NPM package to aid in reading/search for/writing binary data in the browser Posted: 04 Oct 2020 08:45 AM PDT A not entirely new concept, but I found it very hard to find a JS solution that wasn't server side in a Node.js context, or one in the browser that wasn't an abandoned project / undocumented. Basically if you ever found yourself in the situation where you need to read/write binary data, you'd often end up in an endless myriad of bit shifts and line-by-line translations to get the data you want. The zanily titled "Binarcular" abstracts this process for you in a way that might seem familiar to those who use fopen with structures in C : Basically you define a JSON Object defining what the binary data sequence looks like along with its type. You can then read binary data into an Object that follows this structure, but with all bytes automatically converted to meaningful values without having to go line-by-line and transform type-by-type. It also works in reverse. Define your data as JSON, then write it into binary. Save as a file and download. Binarcular works from IE10 up (for most usages) and uses Workers to keep your main application responsive will bytes are being flung around. While it's still under development, docs are up-to-date and all of the above is covered in tests. Contributions and feedback welcomed! and [link] [comments]  | ||
| How do I prepare looking for a job as a fresh grad? Posted: 04 Oct 2020 04:05 PM PDT I have recently acquired my BS Computer Science diploma. I'm planning on looking for a job soon after I finish this freelance project I have been working on. I have no real work experience but I do have experience developing a full website on my own (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Django). I have no idea how easy or difficult it will be and I just don't wanna get caught off guard. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 04 Oct 2020 04:02 PM PDT Let's say that I quit my job to commit full-time to a successful start-up that I run through a website, but I don't want to be known as the owner of the business for privacy reasons. If I was in charge of my website, would it be possible to reference myself as "lead web dev" of my own company in my resume? [link] [comments]  | ||
| CSS Grid : How Auto placement algorithm works Posted: 04 Oct 2020 11:38 AM PDT I was going through the example provided in MDN article on grid-auto-flow to understand how the auto-placement algorithm works in CSS grid. As far as I understand from this another article from MDN, CSS grid places items in this order:
Now I have 2 major doubts regarding how it works in above example:
PS: If required, here's a JSfiddle for the example (you can change the select option to change value of grid-auto-flow property here). [link] [comments]  | ||
| Questions regarding freelancing as a web developer Posted: 04 Oct 2020 03:11 PM PDT Basically, my goal is to become a full-stack web developer and work in a company. So far, I've learned HTML, CSS, SCSS, JAVASCRIPT and I'm also currently learning Nodejs and React. Today I was thinking that I want to start offering my services to other people, start freelancing to (1) Make some cash (2) Get experience. So I've opened up my area in Google Maps btw I live in Northern Ireland and I found out that most of the websites in my town look horrendous so what I was thinking is that I'd get their email and message them on how can I improve their websites and why is it good to have responsive websites in this era, link my portfolio and et cetera... THEN..... I realized that I know NOTHING about hosting and how to deploy web servers. I want to quickly mention that I do have my own portfolio website hosted on Github and that I know how to forward a domain but that's basically it. I really don't want to bother you guys but I do have some questions that I wish someone would answer them. SOOOOOO... let's start from: - What are the best web hosting providers here in the UK? - How do you deploy web servers with Nodejs backend? (and is it easier to deploy a landing page than something with a backend?) - Should I worry about security? - What hosting plans should I choose for freelancing? - How would I explain to a client that he needs a hosting provider(if he doesn't have one) and that he has to pay extra every month to keep his site running (and should I offer him a service where he pays me monthly to maintain his website?) [link] [comments]  | ||
| Github Should Embed a Screen-Recorder in Their Issue-Tracker, So Bug-Reporters Can Record Their Bugs Posted: 04 Oct 2020 03:48 AM PDT Apparently, websites can record screens and applications - see https://recordscreen.io/ for a demo. It would be awesome if users could do this on github when they open an issue. The bug-reporter would draft an issue and github would have a button to create a screen-recording. The bug-reporter could click this button and record the steps that lead to the bug, without needing to install any software. This would give * detailed steps on how to reproduce the bug * immediate insight into whether the bug is a bug and not intended behaviour * a lowered language barrier Of course, a textual description of the bug would still be required. What do you think? [link] [comments]  | ||
| COMPLETE walk-through of production build? Posted: 04 Oct 2020 08:40 AM PDT Hey, r/webdev! I've done a number of tutorials (YouTube, Udemy, Pluralsight), and I'm getting pretty comfortable with React, Node, Mongo, etc. I've done a couple sideprojects, and am continuing to learn a lot. A huge point of frustration is that in almost every tutorial out there, you'll hear stuff like:
What I'd really like to see is someone walk through an entire production setup, with proper security, authentication, etc. Not necessarily code the entire thing, but I just want to know how to take something from "something that is ok and runs" to "ready for production". Does that exist anywhere? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Mozilla issues with Pseudo- Elements like custom checkboxes! Posted: 04 Oct 2020 12:13 PM PDT
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| Posted: 04 Oct 2020 11:58 AM PDT Github link: https://github.com/tuktukmaster/JukeBot Whenever I initiate the front end and the back end using Google Cloud's App Engine, they both run fine separately, but are unable to connect to each other. The first error I get is: failed: Error during WebSocket handshake: Unexpected response code: 503 I believe this has something to do with using ws instead of wss, but I'm completely stumped and don't know where to go from here. Is there an easier hosting service or something that I could use? [link] [comments]  | ||
| How to integrate frontend and backend (DRF + react or angular) Posted: 04 Oct 2020 11:39 AM PDT I'm half way through developing online translation service web app using DRF as backend. https://gengo.com/order/ but for specific languages only. Users copy paste or upload documents to be translated. They should be able to see how many words are in the document first then price for each languages they want the document to be translated. However, I'm struggling to understand how the word counting is integrated to the backend either when they pasted into the form or upload documents. Any help or guidance is greatily appreciated [link] [comments]  |
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