Learn Flexbox, Karma and Nativescript

It's tempting to pick up a framework which has preselected flexbox or grid as the layout tool of choice, but it's important to learn when and why to use each method. This leads to slimmer stylesheets which results in better site performance, and less likelihood for "hacks" to make one method do what the other does inherently better. 

Throughout this collection, we will be progressively styling a responsive landing page template while building your knowledge on when to select grid or flexbox for any layout scenario. Spoiler alert: sometimes the best solution is using both!

The specification describes a CSS box model optimized for user interface design. In the flex layout model, the children of a flex container can be laid out in any direction, and can “flex” their sizes, either growing to fill unused space or shrinking to avoid overflowing the parent.

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Create a Landing Page with CSS Grid and Flexbox

Flexbox is a powerful way to layout HTML so that elements can grow to fit the size of their container.  It can also control how the elements are positioned within a flexed container.  

Once you start thinking in `rows` and `columns`, you can control almost any flexed layout with just a few simple flexbox layout primitives.

Get Started with Flexbox CSS Layouts

Flexbox is a wonderful tool built into the CSS specification. Using flexbox doesn't require any special framework or library, just a browser with CSS3 support. It is so awesome, and makes the arranging elements on a page almost fun!

Flexbox Fundamentals

Demystifying alignment in flexbox children

Flexbox makes it easier to create layouts that can adjust depending on the content that is added and the space available. In this lesson we look at a couple real-world applications of Flexbox in an application and website.

Using Flexbox in Websites and Applications

The flex-basis property allows us to define the dimension (along the flex-direction axis) that a flexbox child should ideally have.

Defining dimensions on flexbox children using flex-basis

Flex-basis lets us set the ideal dimensions for a flexbox child, but flex-shrink lets us define what should happen if there isn't enough room, and flex-grow can define what happens when there is too much room.

Using flex-shrink and flex-grow to make flexbox children resize correctly

Using the `order` property we alter the order in which flexbox children appear on the page, without making changes to the dom.

Using order to rearrange flexbox children

The flex shorthand makes it easier to declare flex-shrink, flex-grow, and flex-basis, but it sometimes has unexpected results because the defaults differ.

Combining the flexbox sizing properties using the flex shorthand

The Flexbox css spec allows for more adjustable layouts. The `flex-direction` property allows you to easily change the layout on the children of an element without making any changes to the dom, which is particularly useful when combined with media queries.

Using flex-direction to layout content horizontally and vertically

Adding flex-wrap to a flexbox container allows the items to form a grid. The content can then be aligned and distributed along the grid using justify-content and align-content.

Turning a flexbox into a grid using flex-wrap and align-content

Open source framework for building truly native mobile apps with Angular, TypeScript or JavaScript.

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We will use the NativeScript Text-to-Speech plugin to have the iOS and Android speech synthesizers speak a provided text.

Using Text to Speech with NativeScript

We will use the [nativescript-phone plugin](https://github.com/msywensky/nativescript-phone) which provides a simple API to access the device's default phone and SMS applications. This allows us to dial phone numbers from our app using the device's phone capabilities as well as pre filling SMS messages for your app's users.

Using the device Phone and SMS with NativeScript

Karma is essentially a tool which spawns a web server that executes source code against test code for each of the browsers connected.

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A quick tutorial covering installing Karma and running tests from the command line and Webstorm.

Introduction to Karma

React Native lets you build mobile apps using only JavaScript. It uses the same design as React, letting you compose a rich mobile UI from declarative components.

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React Native utilizes flexbox for layout, and you can apply styles inline, or via external stylesheets. We will learn about both approaches, and create some basic styles for a native application.

For getting your application setup, you might want to checkout [this lesson](https://egghead.io/lessons/react-react-native-up-and-running?course=react-native-fundamentals&from=react-applying-styles-in-react-native)

Applying Basic Styles in React Native

Learn how to construct sophisticated custom components using UIViewController. Understand how to construct UIButton's programmatically and attach tap events via NativeScript using the static ObjCExposedMethods property. Also learn how to save images to the user's iPhone Camera Roll using native api's. Specifically we will look at creating a custom {N} view component for SwiftyCam (a Snapchat inspired implementation: https://github.com/Awalz/SwiftyCam).

Create iOS custom UIViewController components with NativeScript for Angular

We will use the [NativeScript-Email plugin from Eddy Verbruggen](https://github.com/EddyVerbruggen/nativescript-email) to compose email messages from our app that the user can send out.

Composing emails in a NativeScript app

Using the [NativeScript-DrawingPad](https://github.com/bradmartin/nativescript-drawingpad) plugin in a NativeScript app you can create a drawing pad. This is great for capturing signatures or any touch drawing on the device.

Capture Drawings and Signatures in a NativeScript app

We will use the [NativeScript Speech Recognition plugin by Eddy Verbruggen](https://github.com/EddyVerbruggen/nativescript-speech-recognition) to convert speech to text. The plugin provides a clean abstraction over the [Android SpeechRecognizer](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/speech/SpeechRecognizer.html) and the [iOS SFSpeechRecognizer](https://developer.apple.com/reference/speech/sfspeechrecognizer).

Use Speech Recognition with NativeScript

NativeScript is a framework that let's you build JavaScript to native applications. In this lesson, we will set up a native app using the NativeScript command-line interface. We will then take a brief look at some of the project it generates.

Set up a native app project with the NativeScript CLI

We can space items inside of a flexed component in the "on-axis" direction, with `justify-content`.

Justify content can take the following values: `flex-start`, `flex-end`, `center`, `space-between`, `space-around`, or `space-evenly`

Change the Spacing of Flexed Components with justify-content

SolidStart is a JavaScript Framework designed to build full-stack SolidJS apps and enhance your developer experience.

In this course, you will learn how to:
- Set up a SolidStart project
- Toggle different rendering modes
- Leverage file system routing to turn your files into routes
- Create API routes to expose some public endpoints
- Fetch, prefetch, update and cache your data
- Turn your functions and actions into server-executing ones
- Get rid of unnecessary network waterfalls by using Single Flight Mutations.

After this course, you should be able to leverage SolidStart to build your Solid applications.

JavaScript® (often shortened to JS) is a lightweight, interpreted, object-oriented language with first-class functions, most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic, and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

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SolidStart is a JavaScript Framework designed to build full-stack SolidJS apps and enhance your developer experience.

In this course, you will learn how to:
- Set up a SolidStart project
- Toggle different rendering modes
- Leverage file system routing to turn your files into routes
- Create API routes to expose some public endpoints
- Fetch, prefetch, update and cache your data
- Turn your functions and actions into server-executing ones
- Get rid of unnecessary network waterfalls by using Single Flight Mutations.

Getting Started with SolidStart

Bootstrap is an incredibly popular CSS framework designed to make your website look great on mobile and desktop.

By the end of this course, you'll be familiar with many of the popular classes and components that Bootstrap uses to apply in your own projects.

For each feature you build in the course, you'll get a sense for what the relevant classes do for those components and links to documentation for further exploration.

For the course demo application, we will analyze the landing pages of Microsoft and Apple to identify common components that are implemented. When these are identified, you'll implement these components yourself with Bootstrap.

You'll build several common UI elements such as a nav bar, a carousel of images, Cards, and Forms.

Through building these components, you'll understand what is behind the different classes Bootstrap gives you and get familiar with how it exposes flex and grid layout for you.

Cascading Style Sheets bring order and beauty to our applications.

Create Professional Responsive Websites using Bootstrap

This course is perfect for those looking for a lightweight alternative to NgRx Store that scales effortlessly.

Angular is a development platform for creating applications using modern web standards. Angular includes a wealth of essential features such as mobile gestures, animations, filtering, routing, data binding, security, internationalization, and beautiful UI components. It's extremely modular, lightweight, and easy to learn.

Scalable Signals Angular Architecture with NGRX Signal Store

Learn how the latest JavaScript features can help you improve your codebase. 

Learn the Latest ECMAScript Features (ES2024, ES2023, ...)

course repository: https://github.com/ducin/egghead-typescript/tree/brand-types-value-objects

TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.

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Domain Data Modelling using TypeScript Aliases, Brand Types and Value Objects

**Note:** This course is being actively developed and more lessons will be added in the future.

Cursor is an AI-enhnaced code editor that allows you to call upon the robots to refactor or stub out functions for you with natural language. 

In this course, John will show you workflows that will save you time and effort by utilizing the features such as its mult-line editing and context.

In particular, by giving Cursor's AI the proper context, whether that's lines of code or multiple files, you'll get better output when trying to extend or refactor logic that's present.


Bite-size video tutorials for badass web developers.

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Productive Developer Workflows with AI Enhanced Cursor IDE

Learn the fundamentals of React Query by going through the basic API and then implementing search in an employee tracking app.

React is one of the web’s most popular frameworks for building JavaScript applications. 

If you know what you’re doing, React can drastically simplify how you build, use, and maintain code.

Whether you’re a React newbie or you’re ready for advanced techniques, you can level-up with egghead. Explore our in-depth courses, lessons, and community resources to build more powerful applications and crack open your career.

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Simplify State Management with React Query

Vue (pronounced /vjuː/, like view) is a progressive framework for building user interfaces. Unlike other monolithic frameworks, Vue is designed from the ground up to be incrementally adoptable. The core library is focused on the view layer only, and is very easy to pick up and integrate with other libraries or existing projects. On the other hand, Vue is also perfectly capable of powering sophisticated Single-Page Applications when used in combination with modern tooling and supporting libraries.

Create Interactive 3D Experiences with TresJS

You've seen that Angular signals are here, and know that signal-components are coming up.

This marks a paradigm-shift towards reactive programming in Angular.

Are you ready?

What if you could start learning signals and feel pleased with your progress? And reach a point where you feel confident when using signals in production?

And feel ready when signal-based components come?

Changes are coming, and you can get ahead of them.

By taking this cousre you will learn how to:

- Create computed signals
- Share your signals in services
- Use and cleanup signal effects
- Turn signals into observables and vice versa
- ... and more

In 52 minutes over the course of 20 bite-sized lessons, you'll learn everything you need to know to take advantage of signals now and be prepared for signal-based components!

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Modernize State Management in Angular with Signals

Get started with Supabase on your machine

Supabase is an open source Firebase alternative. A service to:

- Listen to database changes.
- Query your tables, including filtering, pagination, and deeply nested relationships (like GraphQL).
- Create, update, and delete rows.
- Manage your users and their permissions.
- Interact with your database using a simple UI.

Supabase is not a 1-to-1 mapping of Firebase. Most notably, Supabase uses Postgres rather than a NoSQL store. 

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