Flutter has already made quite a splash on the mobile development scene. Now it’s taking on bigger devices as well. In this article, Carmine Zaccagnino will show you what you need to know to be ready to take on the task of developing web and desktop apps using this wonderful cross-platform framework. Flutter is a lovely framework, very easy to use, and its extreme cross-platform support only makes it more essential to learn and start using. So, go ahead and start trusting Flutter for web apps, too!
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The admin panel is one of the most powerful, flexible features that the Django web framework provides, combining instant off-the-shelf functionality with infinite customization. Using an example project based on a library inventory system, we’ll use the admin panel to learn about creating models and interacting with relational databases in Django.
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Creating front-end code in Django with templating and server-side rendering combines the fine-grained control of handwritten HTML with the clean code and powerful features of generated pages. We explore breaking down a complex webpage into multiple templates, composing those components, and applying tags and filters to refactor a plain HTML page.
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Transliteration is a popular way to input non-English characters using an English keyboard. The typical method of implementing this is via keyboard event capturing but there’s no uniform support from mobile browsers. In this article, Sandamal Siripathi explains a new method to eliminate such browser-related problems when developing web apps that use transliteration.
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Whenever a web client uploads a file to a server, it is generally submitted through a form and encoded as multipart/form-data. Multer is a middleware for Express.js and Node.js that makes it easy to handle this so-called multipart/form-data whenever your users upload files. In this article, Deve Rathore introduces how Multer streamlines the process of handling file uploads. It also introduces how to use Mongoose to interact with our database by building a music manager app using Express.js alongside Multer for the music upload and Nuxt.js (Vue framework) for our frontend.
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Django is a framework for developing dynamic websites. While a static website is one that solely presents information, there is no interaction that gets registered to a server. In a static website, the server sends HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to a client and that’s it. More capabilities require a dynamic website, where the server stores information and responds to user interaction beyond just serving pages. One major reason to develop a dynamic site is to authenticate users and restrict content. One major reason to develop a dynamic site is to authenticate users and restrict content. Django provides a powerful out-of-the-box user model, and in this article, Philip Kiely will walk you through the best way to provide secure, intuitive user authentication flows.
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As opposed to JavaScript and Python, variables and functions in CSCS are case-insensitive. The primary goal of CSCS is to let the developer write as little code as possible. In this article, Vassili Kaplan explains how you can use a scripting language to develop cross-platform mobile applications. You’ll find examples in both iOS and Android that include placing widgets on the screen, SQLite, Web Requests and JSON parsing.
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In this article, Yusuff Faruq will show you how to use React’s Context API which allows you to manage global application states in your React apps without resorting to props drilling. In the process you will learn what the Context API is and the problem it solves, how to create Context and consuming it in both functional and class-based components, and when to use the Context API. Let’s start!
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A walkthrough of creating an Angular 8 web application and a QR Code generator app completely based on Angular while hosted on Netlify. In this article, Shubham will take you into a walkthrough of creating an Angular 8 web application using the official Angular Material Design library. We will be creating a QR Code generator web application completely based on Angular while hosted on Netlify.
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Have you ever looked at the design techniques and elements you use to build mobile apps and evaluated whether or not they’re still useful or relevant? If you haven’t done this in a while (or ever), stop what you’re doing and read this. Today, Suzanne Scacca is going to look at the 5 things mobile app designers should stop doing so they can create more streamlined and positive user experiences.
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