“Oh, I heard you are a programmer. Can you help me to create a site?”

This question I receive a couple of times each year from photographers, trainers, writers, and artisans. And you know what? In 2021, you don’t need a website if you’re a creator of any kind.

I want to share this guide with people who don’t know how to promote or sell their products or services on the internet.

Portfolio for photographers

In most cases, Instagram is enough to show your work. It’s the best choice if you are a local photographer and you are looking for clients.

But if…

Almost every year, I get into a situation when I need to set up a new javascript project. Projects with a modern framework like Angular already configured for us. But what about more simple apps or widgets, which should be framework agnostic? Usually, we need to have: a liver-reload, TypeScript, CSS-preprocessor, a framework for unit testing, and linter. This guide will be about building a production-ready starter kit, which will satisfy all our requirements.

I’m going to use: Webpack 5, Jest, SCSS, and ESLint. …

Two years ago, I decided to create a planning poker app. It’s a gamified estimation tool where the team can estimate future tasks like playing the game. I made it because most apps were auto-banned as gambling sites in a customer’s private network.

Later, I started to scale the project. I added different features: boards for online retrospectives, reports, multiple scrum masters support, chat, and many more.

After these years, I am so proud of the results and my experiences that I wanted to share what I learned with you. …

I’m a JavaScript developer with 10+ years of experience. The last year during the pandemic, I started to feel a lack of communication and began to conduct lectures for students about JavaScript.

Almost any of them has the same issues while learning, so I decided to list them and talk about avoiding them.

Let’s begin with the first one.

1. Lack of practice while learning

I see many people who spent tons of time learning courses, tutorials, and videos without writing the code. They think it looks clear, and it’s unnecessary to waste time on simple code tasks. …

Tutorial

Generating PDF files is one of the most used features in SaaS projects. I even saw people ask the Firebase team on Twitter to implement an extension for this functionality. In this tutorial, we will generate a PDF document using a Cloud Function. For saving money on cloud computation, we will store the file in Cloud Storage for Firebase.

Cloud Functions for Firebase is a serverless framework that lets you run backend code in response to events and HTTPS requests. Our JavaScript or TypeScript code is stored in Google’s cloud and runs in a managed environment.

If we can use…

Imagine you need to create an app that displays some places on the map around the user. Let’s say something like Foursquare or a banking app with nearby ATMs. The main feature of this app is geo querying. It’s when you can search for the objects in some radius around specific coordinates.

Google just announced some updates for Google Chrome on Android devices. One of the updates is Floom. It’s an amusing tool, which shows in augmented reality the hole through the Earth near you. So you can see what is on the other side of the planet from the place where you are standing right now.

I’m an Angular developer since the very firsts AngularJS versions. During this time, I had a chance to work and deliver projects of different sizes. And I always was satisfied with my primary framework selection. Today it’s still my favorite framework. Currently, I have three active, long-term, and heavy-loaded projects. So let me share the most frequent traps on such projects and how to deal with them.

Version update

Let’s say you created an MVP app at the begging of Angular 2. You configured the project by guidelines, and everything works fine. Later, Angular releases more and more new versions, which is…