Published in Better Programming·Nov 30, 2021Member-onlyDon’t Use Margins For Spacing Between Components, Use GapsLayout guides for 2022 — The layout is hard. There are many different CSS/HTML approaches these days, but most of them are wrong. “I need to create vertical spacing between components; should I use margins or paddings?” None. Let’s dive deeper into the organisation of your components on the screen. The Fall Of Margins In prehistoric Web times when…Programming4 min readProgramming4 min read
Published in Frontend Weekly·Nov 2, 2021Member-onlySet Up Blazing Fast Frontend Development Experience With ViteReplace create-react-app, VueCLI, Webpack, and much more — Your production app is huge. You hit npm run dev to start your development server. After 1 minute, it’s there! You can start your dev journey. Although 1 minute doesn’t seem like a long time — for us devs, it is. We are nitpicky and want everything instantly. Luckily, there’s…Front End Development3 min readFront End Development3 min read
Published in Frontend Weekly·Nov 2, 2021Member-onlyHow To Create Beautiful Link Previews For Every PlatformTwitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, many more. Cover them all. — You’ve been working hard on your web app. It’s finally done. You are proud of it and want to share it. But after pasting a link to Twitter, your link preview is so broken. Only the title is correct, everything else is missing. The first impression everyone will have about…Front End Development3 min readFront End Development3 min read
Published in JavaScript in Plain English·Oct 27, 2021Member-onlyPosition Absolute and Relative in CSS— The Simplest GuideSimple properties that can seem hard. — I remember the time when I was starting my front-end journey. CSS caused a lot of headaches. Like most people, I assumed that it’s easy. Then, I was annoyed when I couldn’t get it working. My usual flow was: Detect a problem. Google it. Find a solution on StackOverflow. C/P…Front End Development4 min readFront End Development4 min read
Sep 15, 2021Member-onlyAll The Resources You Need To Become A Frontend EngineerGo from zero knowledge to $80k/year in 6 months — Everyone talks tech these days. And for the right reason — we, developers, need to create that magical invisible world around us. We’ve just started. The number of opportunities is ridiculously high right now, but will be much higher in the future. Almost any sort of new business these days…Frontend4 min readFrontend4 min read
Published in JavaScript in Plain English·Sep 14, 2021Member-only11 Reasons Why Software Engineering Isn’t a Stressful JobVery unpopular opinion — Everyone talks tech these days. Software engineers are being raised to the skies in terms of their abilities and work complexities. But sometimes, it feels like we forget about all the other professions. We ignore their difficulties by focusing on our own. Instead of that, let’s focus on the positive…Programming6 min readProgramming6 min read
Sep 8, 2021Member-onlyA Ridiculously Simple Way For Creating Responsive Web AppsMedia queries don't have to be hard. — I remember my first encounter with responsive design. Before any investigation, it seemed incredibly complex. The same app runs and behaves differently based on so many types of user devices? I have to cover all the screen sizes, from ultra-wide monitors, over laptop and tablet devices, all the way to…Web Development3 min readWeb Development3 min read
Published in Frontend Weekly·Aug 23, 2021Member-onlyAll CSS Properties You Need to Know to Build a WebsiteIt’s easy to get lost in them — Whether you’re at the beginning of your CSS journey or somewhere else, you got to admit — a number of CSS properties is massive. And it’s easy to confuse yourself in that vast sea. You’re copying code from StackOverflow until you find a solution that fits. But how will that…Software Development5 min readSoftware Development5 min read
Published in JavaScript in Plain English·Jul 26, 2021Member-only14 VS Code Keyboard Shortcuts I Use Every DayVisual Studio Code shortcuts to supercharge your productivity. — We, software engineers, tend to be extremely efficient beings. Our goal is to optimize everything, not just the code. That’s why we don’t want to spend 10 seconds looking for something on the GUI. We don’t want to spend even 2 seconds. …Vscode4 min readVscode4 min read
Published in JavaScript in Plain English·Jul 16, 2021Member-onlyEssential Git Commands Every Dev Should Know11 Git Commands I Use Every Day — When I started my career, I was always afraid of losing my code changes. Sometimes, I would copy the code to text files just to be sure that I won’t miss something. That’s not a great practice. If you know how to use git properly, you won’t have these doubts. …Git4 min readGit4 min read
