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Getting Animated! With React-Spring #2: The useSpring Hook

Aug 17, 202017 min read

Welcome to part two of our series on animating react with React-Spring! In the first article we took a quick look at what React-Spring is, what makes it awesome, and took a peek at what the api has to offer. Today we're going to take a bit deeper of...

Getting Animated! With React-Spring #1: What Is React-Spring?

Aug 12, 20205 min read

Animations: the sugar on top of a well-designed webpage and the bane of a developers' existence. As you may already be well-aware, animating elements on a webpage can be quite a pain to get right. Fortunately for us, there are a bunch of libraries ou...

Scheduling Cron Jobs in Node.js with Node-Cron

Aug 11, 20206 min read

We as developers often run across situations where we want some process to happen on a certain schedule. It could be clearing out error logs every Monday evening, emailing users who haven't checked in to an event the day before their event takes plac...

Tips and Encouragement for a Newly Hired Developer

Aug 7, 20206 min read

First off, congratulations! 🎉 Between polishing your technical toolbelt, researching companies, interviewing, etc... you've put in a lot of work. Landing your first position as a developer can be a daunting task and is something to be proud of. No...

Building a Custom Node/Express Error Handling Middleware

Aug 6, 202010 min read

Error handling is a necessary and very important aspect to any API. Express’ error-handling middleware makes handling errors simple and clean and allows for the flexibility to create pretty advanced and useful error-handling tools! A typical simple h...

How to install Node.js and npm on Ubuntu

Aug 6, 20206 min read

Setting up Node.js on your server is the first step to creating an awesome application on a performant and scalable JavaScript platform built on Chrome’s JavaScript run-time. This tutorial will walk you through three ways to take this first step. Th...