View Transition API

Introducing the View Transition API: Your DOM’s New Best Friend!

Lawrence Chabela API Development, Articles, CSS & HTML, Design, Development Technologies & Tools, JavaScript 1 Comment

Tired of clunky transitions and tangled web states? Meet the View Transition API, your secret weapon for silky-smooth DOM transformations. Say hello to elegant animations and goodbye to the confusion of overlapping states. Your web pages are about to get a serious upgrade!

Think about it, page transitions aren’t all about the looks. They’re like guides, leading users through your content. And they’re not just about appearances, these transitions can also increase the perceived speed of how responsive your site feels, especially during async running tasks…

Selenium Automated Testing: Getting Started

Getting Started with Selenium Automation

Samuel Seidl Articles, Automation, Development Technologies & Tools, Programming, Testing Leave a Comment

Automated testing is a great way to ensure that any application can continue to grow and change while still giving fast and practical feedback to developers. This feedback can tell developers whether or not the changes introduced meet the requirements of the product and don’t introduce bugs.

As discussed in a previous blog series, automated testing can be a valuable resource when trying to deliver both agile and maintainable applications. But where should you get started and what technologies should you use to build automated tests?

In this post, I will discuss how to get started with and how to build out a simple automated test in one of the most popular options: Selenium.

Sequelize Command Line and Migration

Sequelize ORM: Interacting with databases using Node

James Fielder Articles, Databases, Development Technologies & Tools, Programming Leave a Comment

Today, we are going to be going over a very useful tool called Sequelize. It is an Object Relational Mapper (ORM), which allows us to interact with relational databases using Node.js.

Sequelize supports many different databases, but in this blog, we will be using MySQL. We will go over how to set up a local MySQL instance and a Node.js server using Sequelize to communicate with it.

Along the way, we’ll learn basic Sequelize functionally, such as the command line tool and migrations, to understand how to work with the database…

Building a Productivity Mansion with Microsoft 365 Planner

Building a Productivity Mansion: Microsoft 365 Planner

Chris Weiner Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Programming, Tutorial Leave a Comment

Alright, Innovator! I see you’ve been using Microsoft 365 Planner, and it’s like you’ve started building your productivity mansion. As someone who’s been through the process, I’d love to help you add more floors and rooms to it.

So, let’s pick up our productivity blueprints and continue building with these three awesome strategies.