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Monthly archives of “December 2016”

Zero Configuration Live Reload Server
Tips & TechniquesThis tutorial will go over how we can set up a live reload server to serve a static HTML project directory. If you ever come across a situation where you need to rapidly prototype something but didn’t want to...
How To Create A Build System With NPM Scripts
IntermediateIn this three part live coding series, we will create a simple build system that compiles our SCSS files down to a single CSS output. We will also leverage the power of Browserify to recursively bundle all our Javascript...
Building A Sticky Sidebar In React
IntermediateIn this three part live coding series, we will build a basic 8-2 column layout and add a sticky sidebar to our app. In the process, we will learn about how we can create dummy paragraphs programmatically and leverage...
An Overview Of Classical Javascript Classes and Prototypical Inheritance
IntermediateObject Oriented Javascript is not an easy concept to grasp, the language implements object oriented programming(oop) concepts via the Prototypical Model, it’s a powerful model that allows JS to be an extremely flexible language. In this article I will explain...
How to never write console.log again
Tips & TechniquesIf you are a web developer and have worked with Javascript, you probably wrote console.log about a few hundred thousand times now (and I’m not exaggerating!) What If I tell you there’s a trick for that so you’ll never have to...