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Gert Svaiko wrote

How To Optimize Progressive Web Apps: Going Beyond The Basics

Progressive web applications are proven to raise user engagement and keep the costs down effectively. Building a modern PWA requires more than just the core setup to keep up with the user’s expectations. Today, Gert Svaiko will take a first-hand look at adding contemporary characteristics to PWAs, from functioning offline to user-friendly permission requests. Read more…

Frederick O’Brien wrote

Search Engine Optimization Checklist (PDF)

Implementing best SEO practice can produce immediate results, but long-term performance requires long-term maintenance. Besides, the journey is more important than the destination, isn’t it? The most beautiful, spectacular site in the world won’t do anyone much good if people can’t find it on Google (or Bing, or DuckDuckGo).

This is not an exhaustive list, but hopefully there is enough to help you win over some of the most tedious search engine optimization issues. Read more…

Katy Bowman wrote

An Introduction To Running Lighthouse Programmatically

Being able to run Google’s Lighthouse analysis suite programmatically provides a lot of advantages, especially for larger or more complex web applications. Using Lighthouse programmatically allows engineers to set up quality monitoring for sites that need more customization than straightforward applications of Lighthouse (such as Lighthouse CI) allow. This article contains a brief introduction to Lighthouse, discusses the advantages of running it programmatically, and walks through a basic configuration. Read more…

Precious Ndubueze wrote

Demystifying Django’s Magic

In this article, Precious Ndubueze will be taking an in-depth look at what Django brings to the table by understanding what the generated files and folder do, this will give us a better understanding of the Django framework. It’s important to know that it will not be possible to take a look at everything happening inside of Django. For cases outside the scope of this tutorial, there will be links to point you to resources that will help with that. Today, Precious will guide you through understanding Django’s pre-built commands, files and basics. Read more…

Philip Kiely wrote

Django Highlights: Wrangling Static Assets And Media Files (Part 4)

Front-end developers and designers create amazing static assets for web applications. Today, Philip Kiely will be focusing on what happens after the style hotfix or beautiful graphic you just finished is pushed to master. He’ll also investigate handling files that users upload, called media files. Together, you’ll develop an intuition for the strategies available to Django developers for serving these files to users worldwide in a secure, performant, and cost-effective manner. Read more…

Carmine Zaccagnino wrote

Solving Common Cross-Platform Issues When Working With Flutter

When using cross-platform frameworks, people might forget the nuances of each of the platforms they want their code to run on. This article aims to address that. Today, Carmine Zaccagnino is going to see some of those differences and how to overcome them. More specifically, he’re going to talk about storage and UI differences, which are the ones that most often cause confusion to developers when writing Flutter code that they want to be cross-platform. Read more…