Resources for Web Developers in 2022

FaunaDB is a global serverless database that gives you ubiquitous, low latency access to app data, without sacrificing data correctness. It eliminates layers of app code for manually handling data anomalies, security, and scale, creating a friendlier dev experience for you and better app experience for your users.

Fauna is inspired by [Calvin](https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/03/29/calvin-fast-distributed-transactions-for-partitioned-database-systems/), has [built-in GraphQL integration](https://docs.fauna.com/fauna/current/api/graphql/), and a query language based on lambda calculus. Be sure to check out the [Jepsen analysis](https://jepsen.io/analyses/faunadb-2.5.4) and the associated [chart of consistency models](https://jepsen.io/consistency)

FaunaDB is a global serverless database that gives you ubiquitous, low latency access to app data, without sacrificing data correctness. It eliminates layers of app code for manually handling data anomalies, security, and scale, creating a friendlier dev experience for you and better app experience for your users.

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The Complete Guide to FaunaDB

A list of Python tidbits that I've used in projects so that I can remember them later.

Bite-size video tutorials for badass web developers.

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Practical Python Pieces

In this course we will explore integral Angular Material components. We will start with components related to navigation, layout, and structure. We will then move through the utility, input, and datatable components, demonstrating how each can be used to suit your project’s needs. Finally we will touch on theming your application to create a custom look and feel that fits within the Material Design guidelines.

By the end of the course you will be comfortable leveraging the Angular Material library to create an outstanding interface and user experience!

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.

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Structure Angular Apps with Angular Material Components

JSON Web Token (JWT) is a low overhead option for authentication that is easy to implement and scales with your application. There is no need to store session data as everything you need is stored in an encoded string sent in the JWT, significantly reducing database overhead for your servers.

In this course, we will build a simple authentication server that will act as a token issuer, and we will use those tokens to access resources on an API.  Starting from scratch, you will learn how easy token based authentication can be and will understand how to use them on your APIs as well as on the front end of your web applications.

Express is a minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework that provides a robust set of features for web and mobile applications.

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JSON Web Token (JWT) Authentication with Node.js and Auth0

The videos in this playlist will get you started building serverless applications using AWS SAM. It covers

* Setting up your AWS credentials
* Building and deploying a Lambda
* Testing your Lambda locally
* Cleaning up your AWS account once you've finished

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a powerful expansive cloud infrastructure platform for building modern web applications.

AWS provides services for data, presentation, authentication, security, video encoding, and much more. Offering over 175 fully-featured services from data centers globally, AWS powers a large percentage of the internet.

Introduction to AWS SAM

[unified](https://unifiedjs.com) enables new exciting projects like [Gatsby](https://gatsbyjs.org) to pull in Markdown, [MDX](https://mdxjs.com) to embed JSX, and [Prettier](https://prettier.io) to format it. It’s used in about 300k projects on GitHub and has about 10m downloads each month on npm.

unified uses abstract syntax trees, or ASTs, that plugins can operate on. It can even process between different formats. This means you can parse a markdown document, transform it to HTML, and then transpile back to markdown.

unified leverages a syntax tree specification (called unist or UST) so that utilities can be shared amongst different formats. In practice, you can use unist-util-visit to visit nodes using the same library with the same API on any supported AST.

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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unified - the compiler for your content

Vue is known for being super easy to pick up and quickly build great applications using the built-in template bindings and directives. As your application grows in complexity, you'll need finer control of your components.

In this course, we’ll define where content of a component should land when you define the content inside of a parent component with Vue slots and manage that relationship with slot-scope. We’ll continue with dynamic and async Vue components as well as use JSX inside Vue for complete JavaScript control of your components. 

This course provides an overview of Advanced Vue.js Components with quick demonstrations on how to leverage Vue Component patterns.

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.

Advanced Fine-Grained Control of Vue.js Components

PureScript is a small strongly, statically typed language inspired by Haskell and compiles to JavaScript. This means no run-time errors, human readable output, ADTs, and pattern matching (and more!) all at your fingertips.

In this course we will use an [online editor](http://try.purescript.org/) to show basics into PureScript with an instant visual representation, investigate the type system and ways to reason about common programing problems with PureScript. 

As we explore the type system and common problems that are faced when programming in PureScript we will learn plenty of functional programming concepts as PureScript is a purely functional language.

PureScript is a small strongly typed programming language that compiles to JavaScript.

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Functional Programming Concepts in Purescript

Examples on how to use the contentful-migration tool to change content models programmatically 

Contentful migration tool in action

In this course, you will be learn how to get your react app to load as quickly as possible to maximize user engagement—we need faster rendering speed and smaller network requests! 

You’ll learn how to both split code into lazily loaded bundles AND server-side render your page. 

This has not been possible until very recently—you had to choose either code-splitting or SSR. Sure you have Next.js which is awesome, but it’s a framework that you need to buy into. With react-universal-component you are getting a framework-less Next.js that is in your control!

The react-universal-component library does a great job making it as simple as can be, but there are still various specific configurations and practices that must be followed to get it working. So watch the videos to learn how it’s done!

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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Build a Server Rendered + Code Split App in React with React Universal Component

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.

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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Get Started with Flexbox CSS Layouts

Gain efficiency in navigating and manipulating text in VSCode. If all you’re using right now is your mouse, you’re leaving a lot on the table in terms of efficiency. 

VSCode gives you the ability to detect patterns in text and manipulate those patterns as you see fit. e.g. when you’re renaming a variable, you don’t want to rename just the declaration but all the uses of that variable in one file. Do so in just a few key presses.

Visual Studio Code is an integrated development environment (IDE) built and maintained by Microsoft. It is offered free of charge.

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Text Manipulation in VSCode

In this course, we will go through the concept of transducers and build them up from basic principles. We will go over the problems with regular composed transformations, and show how we end up with unnecessary data and intermediate collections. We go on to learn how we can use transducers for performance gains when operating on large data sets, as well as how they’re an excellent fit for processing other iterable data, like generators. Not just arrays.

Quickly Transform Data with Transducers

React hooks can be used to add state to functional components, as well as replace the lifecycle methods that only class methods had available until now.

This playlist goes through several different hooks available now in React, as well as how to make your own custom hooks!

React Hooks in Function Components

VSCode can be used for almost any programming language or framework. That encompasses quite a few workflows. 

Through extensions and built-in features, you can customize VSCode to suit the workflow you need that will support your development.


Development Workflows in VSCode

Client-server communication is at the heart of any modern web application. In this course we will take a look at how to communicate with your backend API in Angular, specifically with the new Http module(`@angular/common/http`) introduced and used in Angular  `4.3.1` and later.

We will learn how to configure the `HttpClientModule`, how to fetch and send data, customize HTTP headers that are being sent and how to properly handle error responses.

We will also take a look at some more advanced use cases such as listening to progress events and intercepting HTTP calls. Finally we will also learn how to isolate and mock HTTP calls in automated unit tests.

Learn HTTP in Angular

CSS uses a global namespace for CSS Selectors that can easily result in style conflicts throughout your application when building an application using modern web components. You can avoid this problem by nesting CSS selectors or use a styling convention like BEM but this becomes complicated quickly and won’t scale.

CSS-in-JS avoids these problems entirely by generating unique class names when styles are converted to CSS. This allows you to think about styles on a component level with out worrying about styles defined elsewhere.

In this course, you will learn how to express popular SCSS (Sass) language features using latest JavaScript features. We will convert simple examples from SCSS to CSS-in-JS. As a designer or (S)CSS developer, you should be able to follow without extensive JavaScript knowledge, understanding SCSS is required though. We will not be using any particular CSSinJS libraries. Instead, we will focus on a base knowledge you need later if you use any CSSinJS library.

Sass is the most mature, stable, and powerful professional grade CSS extension language in the world.

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Convert SCSS (Sass) to CSS-in-JS

Introductions to various RxJS Operators including of, from, fromEvent, interval and zip.

RxJS is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs by using observable sequences. 


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RxJS Operators

This playlist covers various aspects of CSS including different rules, selectors, and patterns

CSS Tips and Tricks

JavaScript’s `this` keyword is a source of confusion for new and experienced developers alike. It can be frustrating if, for some reason, `this` doesn’t point to the context that was intended. 

This course will help you understand JavaScript’s `this` mechanism in-depth. Marius will take us through all of the ways `this` will change its values, from why many libraries use "use strict" to how arrow functions take its outer execution context’s `this`. 

Over 8 lessons, you’ll learn:

- how JavaScript implicitly sets the `this` context, and how we can set it ourselves
- that the call-site of a function determines the `this` value of that function invocation 
- how to call a function with a specific `this` value
- how to create functions that always remain tied to a specific this context
- how `this` is treated within arrow functions and classes

Following the course, `this` will feel less frustrating, more intuitive, and far more useful in your day-to-day. 

Understand JavaScript's this Keyword in Depth

When we build forms, we know there’s a good chance that the data we want to collect may change. Dynamic Forms in Angular give us the ability to define the underlying object model before binding the form to the template. This lets our forms programmatically adjust to the underlying model so we don’t have to update each form manually as our data will eventually change.

In this course Google Developer Expert-led we will use Angular’s Reactive Forms and learn about the basics for dynamically rendering `FormControls`. We will also explore how more advanced input controls such as select boxes and radio button lists can be dynamically bound to our template. 

If you’re coming from AngularJS (v1.x) you may also be familiar with dynamic forms in the context of `Formly`, a library for automating dynamic forms. We will also quickly touch on `ng-formly`, which is the Angular (2+) equivalent.