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Setting Up CSS and HTML for Your Website: A Tutorial

Building websites is the initial step of getting started with web development. One of the first things web development enthusiasts must learn is how to set up CSS and HTML for a website. By setting up the basic introductory page, a beginner can get ready with the website design basics, hone their web development skills, and learn to collaborate with …

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Deploying Applications on Kubernetes Using Argo CD and GitOps

Introduction Kubernetes has become a standard for deploying large applications. It helps developers gain significant advantages and offers features that are not available in traditional server hosting. Kubernetes allows horizontal scaling without the hassle of infrastructure. Furthermore, it reduces the cost of acquiring and maintaining the infrastructure as the application grows. However, managing applications on Kubernetes can also be complex …

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Introduction to Cookies: Understanding and Working with JavaScript Cookies

Browser cookies, or HTTP cookies, are text files made up of tiny bits of data. Websites use this information to track a user’s journey, allowing them to offer tailored-fit features and improve their browsing experience. Cookies can store up to 4096 bytes of data. However, we can add a limited number of cookies per domain, depending on the browser. A …

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An Overview of Data Types in Ruby

Ruby is a well-known programming language. It aims to improve simplicity and productivity. It’s also a fully object-oriented programming language. In addition, Ruby comes with an elegant syntax that’s natural to read and easy to write. Any programming requires managing various data types. A data type describes a specific class of data. It tells the machine how it should handle …

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How to Import Packages in Go

Go (also known as Golang) is an open-source, statically typed programming language. It was originally developed by Google. Some notable features of Go include simplicity, high performance, readability, and efficiency. Like any other prominent programming language, the standard library of Go offers a rich set of packages. However, we can also extend the functionalities by incorporating third-party packages. This guide …

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Enabling and Connecting the Django Admin Interface

Django is a popular, free, and open-source web application framework built on Python. It strives to streamline web app development. Django comes with a solid set of components to develop websites faster and easier. In our series of articles on Django, we have been exploring how to use Django with a demo app. In this guide, we will build on …

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Creating Drag and Drop Elements with Pure, Vanilla JavaScript

JavaScript is one of the most popular programming languages empowered with more than 24 frameworks and around 84 libraries. It is the only programming language intrinsically supported by all browsers. Besides, the language supports dynamic typing and is an excellent fit for rendering and animation. You can leverage JavaScript to add interactive behavior in the front-end, control the backend, create …

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Making Decisions Using Switch Statement in Javascript

Introduction Conditional statements are one of the most important control flows in any programming language. We use them to dictate the behavior of execution upon some condition. In Javascript, conditional blocks can be built using if, else if, else, and switch statements. The switch statement makes the control flow easy to read by making the decision against some possible outcomes to …

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JavaScript Tools: localStorage and sessionStorage

JavaScript (often abbreviated as JS) is one of the foundations of the modern web infrastructure. It’s a lightweight, interpreted, object-oriented programming language that supports first-class functions. JavaScript is mostly known for its implementation in dynamic web pages. Because of its features, however, JavaScript is also used in non-browser environments. In this guide, we will discuss in detail two JavaScript objects: …

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Defining Functions in Python 3: A Tutorial

In programming, a function is described as a block of instructions that can perform a certain action. A function is generally re-usable. Using functions makes the code more modular. It also opens up the opportunity of re-using the code over and over again in the future. Python is a robust programming language that supports functions. It already comes with a …

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Setting Up a React Project with Create React App

React is one of the most popular JavaScript libraries for developing front-end apps. It’s an open-source library that was originally developed by Facebook. React quickly became popular for creating fast applications with JSX – a programming paradigm that combines JavaScript with an HTML-like syntax. Previously, setting up a React project would have been a complex process. It required configuring the …

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Writing Modules in Python 3: A Tutorial

Introduction Python is one of the most commonly used programming languages across the world. Modules are a critical part of the Python code. A module is simply a .py file in the context of Python 3. This means that you can refer to any Python file as a module. It is possible for you to obtain these modules through the …