Part 3: Using Nodeโ€‹ and Markdownโ€‹ + the Package Showdown

Chris Berry Articles, JavaScript, Node.js, Single-Page Application, solidfoundationsseries, Tutorial, Vue.js Leave a Comment

This is an in-depth learning seriesย focused on a specific application: a JavaScript-based suite of single-page applications optimized for use in a microservice environment. We focus on telling the story of “why” and “how” it was built.ย 

In Part 2 of our Solid Foundations Learning Series, we covered quite a bit of ground surrounding the discovery of Handlebars files, creating navigation based off of those files, and the routing back to the server based on those files.

Now weโ€™re going to dive back into the Handlebars pages and find out how weโ€™re getting content into the pages when theyโ€™re rendered by the server.

Lean Mean Vue Machine

Chris Berry Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, JavaScript, Vue.js Leave a Comment

The year is 2019 and Command Line Interfaces abound for many of the big name JavaScript frameworks such as Angular CLI, Create React App, and the Vue CLI.

But wouldnโ€™t it be nice to go back to the days when you could just drop a simple script tag on a page and be able to run an application? Well, here is my attempt in trying to accomplish just that.

In this post, we create a working Vue.js web application with standard CRUD functionality and deploy it without any extra dependencies other than the actual application itself.

Flow: A Static Type Checker for JavaScript

Lou Mauget Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, JavaScript, React Leave a Comment

In this post, weโ€™ll discuss the concept of types, compare static and dynamic types, and show an unobtrusive type inference package provided by Flow.org.

Facebook developed and maintains Flow. The package provides static typing to normally late-bound JavaScript code, including React code. It provides this analysis to a JavaScript application, even if it is an existing application. ย Flow operates by carrying out a static abstract syntax tree (AST) analysis of type flows at build time.

Creating A Blockchain In JavaScript

Vince Pendergrass Articles, Blockchain, Development Technologies & Tools, JavaScript Leave a Comment

Blockchain is all the buzz now. And for good reason! A distributed public ledger that is extremely secure through encryption?! Imagine the millions of applicable use cases. A blockchain can be created and maintained using any modern language.

For the purpose of this blog, let’s dive into a blockchain written in JavaScript. Hopefully, this doesn’t just serve as a simple code example but also gives a very basic understanding of how a blockchain actually works.

Do keep in mind this will be very simplist…

React Native With Expo

Lou Mauget Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, JavaScript, Mobile, React, React Native 1 Comment

The React Native framework supports an installable mobile application created from JavaScript source code. It is not a React-based web app wrapper. It isnโ€™t a code generator. There is no required application source code in Java, Objective-C, Swift, or Kotlin. Moreover, a single React Native application targets both iOS and Android devices.

In this blog, we show a quick-start that results in an executing application on a phone, within five minutes. That application is live-reloadable, native cross-platform, and written in JavaScript. It is not a web application.