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    I'm experimenting with character movement animation patterns for my vanilla JavaScript platformer inspired by Limbo web developers

    May 28, 2021

    I'm experimenting with character movement animation patterns for my vanilla JavaScript platformer inspired by Limbo web developers

    I'm experimenting with character movement animation patterns for my vanilla JavaScript platformer inspired by Limbo

    Posted: 28 May 2021 10:49 AM PDT

    A year into my switch from WordPress to Craft. My general findings...

    Posted: 28 May 2021 05:05 AM PDT

    I am a freelance dev and the bulk of my work are CMS builds. Roughly a year ago I stopped recommending WP to clients and chose Craft. Some clients always want WP, so I still worked with it when needed. But if the client had no preference I would suggest Craft. After a year, and 5 Craft builds I have come to the following conclusions (as an FYI I build completely custom WP themes, I do not work with paid themes or page builders):

    1. Craft is a far better development experience. At least as far as day-to-day code writing is concerned. With template development you do start with a completely blank canvas and are not battling against the CMS (e.g. no need for various filters to remove the sort of crap WP injects into every page).
    2. With Craft I never had the need to explain I knew what I was doing. Almost every client had a bad experience with their previous WP dev (usually someone who installed a page builder and dozens of plugins). I often had to fight against that perception.
    3. But! WordPress is more stable in general. I've had numerous issues with clients getting various errors in the Craft dashboard. Nothing that could be tracked down easily using Crafts overly verbose logs. These tended to be strange server errors. But nothing I ever encountered with WP or other systems.
    4. The Craft update process is not seamless. I've had numerous issues on different sites updating minor versions.
    5. The Craft documentation often leaves you digging through the source code to figure things out. While I don't mind that - ain't nobody got time for that!
    6. I don't care for twig. it does nothing that I can't do with PHP directly. And often using PHP directly is much faster for me.
    7. Importing content is a show stopper. if you have to import content into Craft, and you often do, you can use the FeedMe plugin. But there is a longstanding bug where you lose your WYSIWYG field formatting. Not for every entry, but more than enough to be a huge issue. You can resolve this by manually going into every entry and resaving. But who has time to go through a thousand blog posts to resave? There's no way to do this through code alone. I've tried resaving entries via my own module, but it doesn't fix the formatting. Since the FeedMe plugin was built by the Craft team this is very problematic.
    8. Craft in theory has better security, sure, but if you aren't loading your WP site with plugins you can avoid that easily enough.
    9. But, the final issue and the thing I missed most about WP - the Advanced Custom Fields plugin. It may be the best software I have ever worked with. And there is nothing close in Craft. The SuperTable and Neo plugins don't even come close. ACF is really a game changer.

    So, I am going to put this experiment to bed. It actually pains me to say this, but I am just sticking to WordPress going forward.

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    My Portfolio made in React and Gatsbyjs. What do you think?

    Posted: 28 May 2021 02:19 PM PDT

    Domain name price shot up after searching?

    Posted: 28 May 2021 09:45 AM PDT

    Hi everyone! I was searching many variants/spellings of a particular website name. Some were not taken and therefore very cheap. Some were taken and ranged from $1.5k - $2.5k

    Last night I THOUGHT one of the sites was a cheap/not taken name and decided I'll purchase it in the morning. I'm looking at it again and it's $1,650.

    I've read there are some scumbag sites that will do this. And it could be the result of "Domain Tasting".

    However, I had so many name variants I was searching and adding to my good/not good lists, that I'm going crazy and wondering if it was always $1,650 and I was just tired or buzzed off my third mikes hard lemonade.

    How can I figure out what happened in my case?

    Thanks - from a guy who has no clue wtf they're doing.

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    What do you do after building a website for a client?

    Posted: 28 May 2021 10:53 AM PDT

    I made 3 full websites with admin pages (personal projects to get better at web dev). I want to get into freelancing when I'm ready.

    I have many questions but I didn't find any detailed explanations online.

    What do you do after building a website for a client? (boring details are welcomed)

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    Going from Jr UI Dev to Lead UI Dev

    Posted: 28 May 2021 10:50 AM PDT

    So I'm currently a junior UI dev for a large company on an in house React app that is used by employees. I've been in this role about a year and a half, prior to which I attended a 3 month webdev bootcamp. Suffice to say, in the field my only experience is the position I have now.

    I was contacted by my manager today who let me know that at some point soon, they would like me to step into the lead UI dev position for my team. Right now I work entirely with offshore contractors in my UI team, and the company wants to move more to inhouse employees. Cue imposter syndrome!

    So Redditors, my boss asked me: What do I need from him to prepare for this role? I told him I needed a little time to consider that. I'm not worried about leading others; I have years of management experience prior to webdev and I generally think I work well with people. I'm worried if I'm ready on the tech side, though, as well as the unique responsibilities of leadership in tech that I may have no idea of.

    I'm hoping you guys may have some suggestions, either to how I can be personally preparing myself or for what my response to my boss should be.

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    I have my first phone interview next week

    Posted: 28 May 2021 11:27 AM PDT

    Hello all! I am a self-taught web developer and recently started applying for jobs. Next week I have my first interview where it is a 30 min phone call where they will ask me to talk about one of my recent projects, and they will tell me about the company. I have no idea where to start! My most 'in-depth' project I've made is my e-commerce store. If anyone has advice on how to approach this that would be great!!

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    What is the best way of implementing a section fade-in on scroll without JQuery nowadays?

    Posted: 28 May 2021 04:07 PM PDT

    I've seen 100 different answers on this topic. I've seen people recommend libraries, some people code it from scratch but even then, there is lots of different ways to go about it. And if you have tons of different sections and you want different fade-in times for each of them, do you code it differently for each section? How would you go about that?

    I have to make a website and I want to hand-code the fade in part if possible. I would be happy to use a library if its lightweight and a good library.

    I have to add the fade in to a ton of sections and images, so, what do you believe is the best method?

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    Standard way to handle includes/routing for vanilla projects?

    Posted: 28 May 2021 11:52 AM PDT

    I've mostly worked with frameworks so far and I realized I have a few missing pieces in my understanding of how to setup a website without one. I'm wondering what the standard way is of setting up a website so that you don't have to repeat the head section for every html file, and so you can similarly build the page out of modular pieces. In addition, if you are working from a default page template with the same head, header, nav, footer, etc. would you then have to use some kind of router to maintain a history of where the user has navigated. Are the popular tools for that? Maybe another question is should I be doing backend routing? The kinds of things I mostly work on are pretty static so I've mostly avoided doing much with backend at this point, and building a server app just to do routes seems like overkill in many situations, but maybe I have it wrong. Thanks!

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    Modern CSS Upgrades To Improve Accessibility

    Posted: 28 May 2021 05:29 AM PDT

    I saw something like this on the web, I thought it looked pretty so I turned it into an Angular Module.

    Posted: 27 May 2021 08:37 PM PDT

    Handling big objects/arrays in JavaScript using Firebase

    Posted: 28 May 2021 04:36 PM PDT

    So I have a site that fetches data from Firestore and loads it into array and displays the results. My question is, how would I go about long term storing the data, as the array will get bigger and bigger the more data I store in it. The array consists of 4 items (title, description, imageURL thumbnailURL), all strings. Thanks!

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    Which is better?

    Posted: 28 May 2021 04:36 PM PDT

    Suggestions on simulating a webapp for demo

    Posted: 28 May 2021 04:04 PM PDT

    I would like to demo the features of a product in browser without a backend server or consuming any API.

    The product could be a webapp or an API. To be more precise, let's say I have a REST API with more than 10 resources and there are certain flows like user registration, password reset etc.

    To understand the API or explain it to someone, my thought is to just create vanilla html+css+js with some hard-coded data just to demonstrate API and workflows.

    Example: A user registration workflow. Objective is it should not be calling any realtime APIs as it's just a demo

    My thoughts on this is to just write some html + css + js with some static data focussing on product workflows/features.

    As the new features pop up this static html code base may be updated. This is my thought.

    What do we call such kind of tool, any specific name? I call it Demo tool

    What's the practice that you follow?

    Is there any better approach to keep up with new features (I mean product business flows, not things like new fields added to particular API or validations etc) of a large scale webapp or REST api which is continuously evolving.

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    How can I render dynamic components and generate codebase from JSON?

    Posted: 28 May 2021 03:58 PM PDT

    I am building an open-source tool that can help people generate a front-end codebase using TailwindCSS and VueJS. It is heavily inspired by DivJoy. I have a basic idea of how everything will happen, I'll use JSON to allow people to create the codebase structure and then use that JSON to render the front-end during development and generate the code when downloaded.

    I am facing 2 questions right now.

    1. The best way to render dynamic components (using VueJS) so that people can see what they are building and interact with it just like they would in a real application.
    2. The best way to generate the actual codebase from the final JSON.

    I'll appreciate any help or reference to an article where I can read more about it.

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    Where to find people to pair up for projects?

    Posted: 28 May 2021 03:22 AM PDT

    Hi all,

    I have been programming/coding for a good while now and even done a bootcamp. The pandemic has put a little dent in my plans to go and grab a web dev/software dev job but there are more opportunities for juniors nowadays. I'd like to market myself with a kick-ass portfolio. I think working on a slightly bigger project with someone and practice agile methods, git version control, daily stand ups and trello boards etc. will definitely give me an advantage on getting hired.

    Is there a forum or place where individuals are looking to pair up or contribute to projects? (open source projects are fairly intimidating to me, the idea to contribute to something that 100s of others work on is a bit much).

    Thanks.

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    Breaking Into Frontend Web Development With Backend Projects in Portfolio?

    Posted: 28 May 2021 09:48 AM PDT

    Context: I'm a self-taught, unemployed programmer and I have a ton of personal projects in my portfolio. I also have 1 year of experience at a reputable company doing non web-dev programming.

    I've heard it's a good idea to break into web dev as a frontend dev because to know the backend, one must first know the front. Since I want to be full-stack, this seems reasonable to me.

    Many of my non-web projects are fairly large and are in C, Java, and Python, and fall more in line with the backend, utilizing a terminal interface. I've also made full-stack web projects.

    Will frontend employers even be impressed with my non-frontend, non-web projects? Should I include them in my portfolio or only include projects that pertain to web dev?

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    When to choose python over java or java over python?

    Posted: 28 May 2021 04:54 AM PDT

    What scenario calls for which language over the other? Both have similar capabilities but which of the two would be superior as far as for a full stack dev to know?

    submitted by /u/C0d3rStreak
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    Writing custom REPLs in Node.js

    Posted: 28 May 2021 11:32 AM PDT

    Why is the Flask element in my HTML not working?

    Posted: 28 May 2021 03:07 PM PDT

    Why is the Flask element in my HTML not working?

    I am transferring data from a python sheet to an HTML page using Flask. However, the corresponding code in the HTML file is not even changing color as it is supposed to, I don't think it's registering it as valid code. It is just treating the code as a string and outputting the code on the screen. Here are the code snippets:

    The Python code in app.py

    The HTML code in Visualization.html

    Any ideas on how to make this transfer the data properly? Thank you so much.

    submitted by /u/Battle_Fuzzy
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    CSS shifting slightly to the right on mobile (iPhone 11)

    Posted: 28 May 2021 10:52 AM PDT

    SOLVED

    Hello all!

    So I build this neat looking calculator as a React component and added a bunch of CSS.

    https://codesandbox.io/s/react-calculator-1gl0e

    Looks exactly how I want on my display and even in Chrome Dev on the mobile screen simulations it looks totally fine. When I go to open it on my phone (iPhone 11) the buttons in the keypad area are slightly shifted to the right a little bit and overlapping the container edge.

    https://imgur.com/gallery/wjRW47a

    Having trouble figuring out how to get it to not do this while on mobile. I'm guessing it might have something to do with how the keypad class is set up as a grid. But I'm not completely sure. Any help would be appreciated :) thanks.

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    Slash Commands for Website

    Posted: 28 May 2021 02:03 PM PDT

    Has anyone had any luck incorporating slash commands into their website similar to how Notion does it? Id really appreciate any resources or tips!

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    web service or plain old sftp ?

    Posted: 28 May 2021 01:53 PM PDT

    I need to transfer records from one MS SQL server to another in another city.

    I was thinking about a web service sharing json files.

    But then I remembered FTPS and how easy you can transfer files.

    So my plan is to create a local SQL file (sqlite) with all the records I want and then just use ftps to move the file. I thinks is very simple.

    What do you think ? should I use a web service or ftps?

    submitted by /u/zaphod4th
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    How long after cancelling a domain does it become available to the public again?

    Posted: 28 May 2021 01:41 PM PDT

    Hey Reddit! So, I was attempting to buy a domain through GoDaddy.com for a site that I plan on creating. However, I accidentally purchased it with the wrong card and the money drew out of an account that my bills draw from (bad move.) I got a refund and had my domain cancelled through GoDaddy, but now that I'm looking to purchase the same domain again, it says it isn't available. How long after a domain becomes available does it take for its availability to be recognized? I just want to make sure that I haven't lost out on this domain forever! Thanks in advance! :)

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