Resources for Web Developers in 2022

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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Storing and updating values inside a component’s local state (known as controlled components) is such a common pattern that Preact offers a really handy feature called ‘link state’ that not only removes the need to bind class methods, but also handles the setting of new values. This can remove the need for ‘setter’ style methods on classes and in this lesson we’ll look at an example of tracking the value of a ‘text input’

Use Link State to Automatically Handle State Changes

Learn how to avoid mutating arrays using concat(), slice(), and the ES6 array spread operator.

Redux: Avoiding Array Mutations with concat(), slice(), and ...spread

Open API Initiative (OAI) is focused on creating, evolving and promoting a vendor neutral API Description Format based on the Swagger Specification

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APIs created with Swagger have a built-in mock function, allowing you to mock responses from your API prior to writing the backend code to make it functional. In addition to learning how to enable this feature, I will show you how to write your own functions to enhance the mock responses returned when using the Swagger mock feature.

Mock API Responses with Swagger

There are a lot of great monitoring tools available for Node.js. It is also incredibly easy to build monitoring into your application. In this lesson, we will add precision monitoring to the function calls in the Todo API server, log it to the console, and persist those results to Elasticsearch where they can later be reviewed, graphed, and analyzed.

Build Monitoring into your API Server

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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In a proper unit test we want to isolate external dependencies as much as possible to guarantee a reliable test outcome. Http calls represent such external dependencies. Therefore, when testing our Angular components or services that rely on data retrieved via Http, we need to make sure to mock such calls and instead provide some fake data during the test execution. In this lesson we about the new `HttpClientTestingModule` and `HttpTestingController` that has been added in Angular v4.3.1 to make our life easier.

Mock HTTP Requests made with Angular’s HttpClient in Unit Tests

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.

D3 makes it easy to add meaningful animations to your data visualizations. Whether it’s fading in new items or tweening existing shapes to display new values, adding transitions is easy. This lesson shows you how to add animations while building on your existing knowledge of D3 selections.

Animate Transitions in D3 v4

Create a line chart, then easily convert it to an area chart

Line and Area Charts with D3

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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In this lesson, you will learn the difference between the exports statement and module.exports. Two examples are demonstrated, each accomplishing the same task but one using export statements and one using module.exports. You will also learn the basic thumb rule to identify which is appropriate for your current needs.

Export Modules in Node.js

Natural is a general natural language facility for nodejs. Tokenizing, stemming, classification, phonetics, tf-idf, WordNet, string similarity, and some inflections are currently supported.

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Tries are a data structure that provide an efficient way to search for the existence of a word or phrase in a body of text, or to search by prefix. 

Search more efficiently with tries using Natural

In this lesson, we introduce modules: what they are and how to use them. You'll learn:
how to create a simple module and export the functions to be accessed elsewhere
how to include code from your module in files within your application
the three rules node uses to find the modules you require
the hierarchy node uses to determine which modules take precedence
which file extensions node can automatically detect when requiring modules

Create a Simple Node.js Module

This lesson shows you how to create the functions defined in the Todo API specification to create new Todo items when received in HTTP POST methods. You will also see the errors you will get when CORS is not properly configured and how to resolve them by installing the NPM CORS package.

Create a Node.js function for an HTTP POST request for a Swagger API

This lesson will teach you how to update a Todo item in Elasticsearch when received from an HTTP PUT method in your API server built with Swagger.

Create a Node.js function for an HTTP PUT request for a Swagger API

We use an offset exporting function to get the address of a string in WebAssembly memory. We then create a typed array on top of the WebAssembly memory representing the raw string data, and decode that into a JavaScript string.

WASM Fiddle: https://wasdk.github.io/WasmFiddle/?6wzgh

Demo Repo: https://github.com/guybedford/wasm-intro

Read WebAssembly Memory from JavaScript

A Unix command used to search files for the occurrence of a string of characters that matches a specified pattern.

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Sometimes you'll be looking for a string, but won't know which file it's in; or you'll want to find all usages of it within a directory. Learn how to use grep -r to recursively search all the files in a directory. 

Search directory contents recursively using grep

This lesson explores the Angular Material sidenav component. This includes input and display options, creating a sidenav with a nav list, and utilizing the `@angular/cdk` to update sidenav settings based on the users screen size.

Use the Angular Material Sidenav Component

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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By default your HTTP requests with the $https service in Angular are **not** cached. By setting some options, you can turn caching on.

caching with $http

In this lesson, you will learn how to create a function in your Node.js Todo API server that gets the ID of the Todo item being requested from the URL and retrieve the Todo item from Elasticsearch.

Create a Node.js function for an HTTP GET request with URL parameters

Not every app is greenfield, and it would be a shame if existing React apps could not benefit from the micro-size of Preact. In this lesson we’ll discuss what preact-compat is, how to use it, and some examples of the file-size savings available. https://github.com/developit/preact-compat

 Reduce the Size of a React App in Two Lines with preact-compat

Python is a widely used dynamically typed programming language. It allows for many different programming paradigms including object-oriented, imperative, functional programming, and procedural styles.

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Exceptions cause your application to crash. Handling them allows you to recover gracefully and keep your application running. Learn how to handle exceptions, find what exceptions you should be handling, and exit gracefully in this lesson. You will also learn how you should *not* handle exceptions and when it is better to let your application crash rather than swallowing an exception. 

Handle Exceptions to prevent crashes in Python

ui-router's states and AngularJS directives have much in common. Let's explores the similarities between the two and how these patterns have emerged in Angular. Keeping your states and directives consistent can also help with refactoring as your app grows larger over time.

Consistency between ui-router states and Angular directives

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.

Your navigation should visually identify which page the user is currently visiting. This lesson walks through adding styles to the navigation element which matches the current page the user is viewing.
