This sponsored article was created by our content partner, BAW Media. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. There’s a heated and seemingly never-ending debate in the web design industry about whether web designers should always start their design work from scratch or not. Another option comprises …
This article on advanced OOP for WordPress was originally published by Torque Magazine, and is reproduced here with permission. I’ve written a lot about object-oriented PHP and the WordPress REST API for Torque over the past few years. I’ve also touched on using Composer for dependency management and to provide …
Cloud computing in its various incarnations — SaaS, PaaS, IaaS — has had big successes. Some of us still recall the $212 million purchase of PaaS provider Heroku in 2010, which at that time was — architecturally speaking — little more than a high-level deployment layer. It had a very …
This article on custom routes was originally published by Torque Magazine, and is reproduced here with permission. Most of the discussion around the WordPress REST API has been about querying the default routes. In that sense, we’re treating it as a monolithic API — like the Twitter API, for example. …
This sponsored article was created by our content partner, BAW Media. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. Creating a decent portfolio requires covering a lot of bases. Showcasing your work may actually be the easiest part; while ensuring that the text accompanying each piece gives the …
This article was created in partnership with MongoDB. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. Suppose that you’re building an e-commerce platform and as part of the exercise, you need to come up with a new data architecture for inventory management. You need to support fast, transactional …
Want a place to chat about coding, design, the web, and technology at large with likeminded people? Or perhaps you work remotely and need a community that can travel with you? We’re opening our Discord to the public today. We wanted to create a casual place where we could chat …
The third prize of the Alibaba Cloud competition goes to David Banham. His winning entry is a succinct tutorial on statically compiling a Go program, and using Docker to containerize and distribute it. Alibaba Cloud’s Container Service is a great example of how Docker and Kubernetes are revolutionising the cloud …
This article was created in partnership with Proper Media. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. Recently, there have been countless articles and think pieces written about the decline of publishing. These articles often illustrate how difficult it is for publishers to monetize what they do to …
Apps that communicate in real time are becoming more and more popular nowadays, as they make for a smoother, more natural user experience. In this tutorial, we’re going to build a real-time chat application using Vue.js powered by ChatKit, a service provided by Pusher. The ChatKit service will provide us …
This article was updated on 30 January, 2019 to reflect the current state of the Angular and React ecosystems. Should I choose Angular or React? Each framework has a lot to offer and it’s not easy to choose between them. Whether you’re a newcomer trying to figure out where to …
This article was originally published on the Okta developer blog. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. If you’ve done any web development with Node in the last few years, you’ve probably used Express. Even if you haven’t used it directly, many frameworks meant to make web …
Thinking about getting on the JAMStack bandwagon? If your answer is Yes, then Gatsby, one of the hottest static site generators around, could be just what you’re looking for. JAM stands for JavaScript, APIs, and Markup. In other words, when the dynamic parts of a site or app during the …
So you want to get a parameter from a URL? URL parameters (also called query string parameters or URL variables) can have lots of useful data including product info, user preferences, link referrals, and more. Let’s get started! Getting URL Parameters Let’s say you have the following url: http://example.com/?product=shirt&color=blue&newuser&size=m Here’s …
Functional programming in JavaScript has rocketed in popularity over the last few years. While a handful of its regularly-promoted tenets, such as immutability, require runtime workarounds, the language’s first-class treatment of functions has proven its support of composable code driven by this fundamental primitive. Before covering how one can dynamically …
When Tobi Skovron landed in LA, he had a great idea, a start-up mentality, and the Global Financial Crisis awaiting his arrival. Luckily he doesn’t believe in negative thinking. Tobi Skovron explains: I’ve got this unbreakable spirit, I can’t explain where I got it from but it’s just deep inside. …
However well-designed your user interface may be, at some point or other, the people using it are going to have to wait for something to load. A 2014 MIT study showed that humans can perceive discrete images in as little as 13 milliseconds however deciding where to focus takes between …
This article was originally published on Alibaba Cloud. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. Cockpit is a server manager that makes it easy to administer your GNU/Linux servers via a web browser. It makes Linux discoverable, allowing sysadmins to easily perform tasks such as starting containers, …
With the ever-increasing number of ecommerce users, more and more ecommerce websites are coming up. There are several dedicated ecommerce platforms out there, such as Shopify, that take care of everything for you, such as web hosting and SSL certificates. Ecommerce stores can also be powered by WordPress. In this …
Few things in life are constant: death, taxes, and strangers asking “So what do you do?” within a minute of a handshake. As a UX designer, I’ve had a lot of practice over the years trying to nail down my answer. Here’s what I’ve come up with: It’s my job …
