Resources for Web Developers in 2022

AngularJS is an open-source JavaScript framework, maintained by Google, that assists with running single-page applications. Its goal is to augment web-based applications with model–view–controller (MVC) capability, in an effort to make both development and testing easier.

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Themes convey meaning through color, tones, and contrasts. And the theme color palettes, alphas, and shadows deliver a consistent tone to your application and a unified feel for all Angular Material UI components. Theming allows developers to change the intention and meaning of the application by changing the colors and shadows. 

Accessibility is a huge - often overlooked - feature in modern web applications. Angular Material components all implement ARIA features whenever possible. And for usage scenarios where the ARIA attributes are not explicitly provided and cannot be inferred, then Angular Material will provide details console warnings alerting the developer.

Let’s use the Angular Material Theming service to change the background, primary, accent, and warning colors used within the entire application. These will be configured at startup using the $mdThemeProvider.  

Let’s also resolve the two ARIA warnings shown in console. These originate from icon buttons where the ARIA label cannot be inferred. So let’s add a static aria-label and a dynamic, interpolated aria-label to those buttons.

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Angular Material: Theming and ARIA

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


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The use of RxJS Subjects is common, but not without problems. In this lesson we will see how they can be usually safely replaced with plain Observables.

Convert RxJS Subjects to Observables

In Angular, we want to keep our controllers lightweight and specific to the view that it is controlling. To accomplish this, we are going to refactor our categories collection into a CategoriesModel. A recurring theme in Angular 2 is that everything is "just a class". When we create our controllers and services in an Angular 2 style, they are also "just a class". We will see this in action as we convert our controller almost verbatim into a service.

Refactor Angular Controller Logic to Services

In this lesson we will learn about potential problems that may arise when using Observable.create, a low-level function for creating Observables. In its place, we will use easier helper functions that create Observables in a safe manner.

Replace Observable.create with Observable creation helpers

Twitter API Client for node

Supports both the REST and Streaming API.

twit

We’ll get a real-time stream of tweets, and learn how to filter a stream by keyword, location, and user.

Use the Twitter Stream API with Twit.js

Cycle.js is a framework where your app is described as a simple function taking an event stream as input and outputting an event stream.

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Our app is not yet a BMI calculator, because it only has two sliders, but doesn't show the calculated BMI number. In this lesson we will learn how to export any stream from a child component and use it in the parent component, in order to display the BMI calculation on the DOM.

Export Values from Components through Sinks in Cycle.js

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

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One of the exciting benefits you have with NativeScript is the ability to write native code (Java and Objective C) directly in JavaScript/TypeScript allowing you to create a consistent high level api over top of both underlying iOS Objective C/Swift and Android Java apis. In this lesson, we will look at how to design a consistent api that taps into the appropriate native api’s on the target platforms using underlying native libraries.

Develop a consistent plugin api across your Android and iOS NativeScript 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.

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Derivations form the backbone of MobX and come in two flavors: computed values are values that can be derived from the state automatically. And reactions can be used to manage side effects, such as drawing the user interface. In this lesson you will learn how these concepts relate to each other and how they are optimized automatically by MobX.

Derive computed values and manage side effects with MobX reactions

The Observer object has the functions next() and error(). In this lesson we will see the other (and last) function available on observers, complete(), and its purpose.

Perform an Action on Completion with  RxJS Observables

A <canvas> element provides scripts with a resolution-dependent bitmap canvas, which can be used for rendering graphs, game graphics, or other visual images on the fly.

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Learn some of the different ways you can affect the graphical content that you are drawing to a canvas. We'll cover global alpha, global composite operations and shadows.

Canvas Effects

Manually unsubscribing from subscriptions is safe, but tedious and error-prone. This lesson will teach us about the takeUntil operator and its utility to make unsubscribing automatic. 

Use takeUntil instead of manually unsubscribing from Observables

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

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Writing similar classes with minor variations, like utility classes, can be a pain to write and update. Sometimes just a single character is the only difference between classes and updating the defining parameter means we need to change it for every class name and value. We can write a class one time and the @for directive can write all the minor variations for us. If the similar classes need to be updated, with the help of the @for directive, they only need to be updated once. In this lesson we learn how to leverage the power of the SCSS @for control directive to relieve the pain.

Write similar classes with the SCSS @for Control Directive

Bite-size video tutorials for badass web developers.

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Tangents are opportunities for other lessons. When you find yourself drifting off-topic because you feel you _need_ to explain  some code you wrote, consider how that piece of code fits back into a "How do I?" question, then come up with a separate lesson to capture it.

Stay on Topic

HTML 5 is the structure of our web pages. It is the markup that represents the DOM (document object model).

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Black is getting awfully boring, let’s add some color to our shapes. 
 
We can use the `fillStyle` method on our `context` to add colors. In this lesson we will look at how we can pass color names, hex values, and rgba values as strings to `fillStyle` to add colors to our graphics. 
 
We’ll also show why the order of where you call methods on `context` matters.

Add color to graphics using HTML Canvas

RxJS is a lot about the so-called "operators". We will learn most of the important operators, one by one. In this lesson, we will see our first creation operator: of().

 If you want to deliver synchronous values in the sequence, you use `of()` instead of writing boilerplate.

Deliver Synchronous Values with the RxJS of() Operator

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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Sometimes you just need to serve existing files. In this lesson we'll examine how to use functionality built into Express to do just that.

Serve static files with express

This lesson shows what can be learned next as a continuation of this course, and gives a recap on the core concepts: main for pure logic, drivers for side effects, run() to connect main and drivers, sources for read effects, sinks for write effects, and nesting Cycle.js apps to work as components.

Overview of Cycle.js

Fast, reliable, and secure dependency management.

yarn

Yarn is a new JavaScript package manager that aims to be speedy, deterministic, and secure. See how easy it is to drop yarn in where you were using npm before, and get faster, more reliable installs.

Yarn: A JavaScript Package Manager

While there are many cases where we often believe that an RxJS Subject is necessary, there is a way of avoiding them. In this lesson we will see how to identify the underlying source of data and convert it into an Observable, essentially eliminating the use of an error-prone Subject. 

Convert an underlying source of data into an Observable

The SCSS @for directive is great when we know how many iterations are required and we only need 1 variable. What if we need multiple variables to iterate over data sets? Hello SCSS maps and the @each control directive! In this lesson, we’ll check out iterating with lists and looping over data sets with maps and the @each directive.

Loop Over Data with the SCSS @each Control Directive

D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG and CSS. D3’s emphasis on web standards gives you the full capabilities of modern browsers without tying yourself to a proprietary framework, combining powerful visualization components and a data-driven approach to DOM manipulation.

In D3, the General Update Pattern is the name given to what happens when a data join is followed by operations on the enter, update, and exit selections. When a chart's data changes over time and each update can both create new elements and destroy existing ones, the General Update pattern can help convey meaning to users. This lesson demonstrates the pattern using animated transitions on a column chart.