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Flutter: How to use the Stepper Widget

Whenever you're dealing with large forms inside of your Flutter applications, the use of a Stepper Widget may be worth using. To quote the Material Design specification for Steppers: Steppers

Flutter: What are Containers?

Flutter has an interesting way of constructing UI and sees us using a variety of Widgets to compose a particular view. In this article, we'll be looking at the Container

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Introduction to @ngrx/effects

This article builds on Part 1: Introduction to @ngrx/store and adds the use of @ngrx/effects to handle side-effects within our application. We'll be building out functionality to deal

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Introduction to @ngrx/store

@ngrx/store offers controlled, reactive state management capabilities to Angular applications. Powered by RxJS, the Store is designed to assist in creating reliable, performant, and versatile applications on top of

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Navigating Between Pages Using the Navigator

One of the most important aspects to any application (mobile or otherwise) is routing. In this article, we'll be investigating how we can navigate between pages using the Navigator. We'll

Flutter: State Management with Mobx

State management is an ever-evolving aspect of any software project. It's not a "one and done" thing, instead, you must continually ensure that you follow best practices to keep things

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Flutter I/0 2019 Recap

I spent this evening watching a lot of the Google I/O talks and I wanted to share the Flutter ones with you. Sit back with some coffee or hot chocolate, and learn all about Flutter with these beginner friendly talks. Build Mobile Apps

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API Integration Using JavaScript Fetch with Ionic

When it comes to making HTTP requests inside of JavaScript, you can use a variety of different options. For example, you can use XMLHttpRequest, a third party library like Axios, or, fetch. What exactly is Fetch? Fetch is a promise based HTTP request API

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Flutter: Dynamic Themeing with Provider

Flutter provides (heh) us with an amazingly easy way to create mobile applications. Once again, a fundamental thing you have to master is the management of state There are numerous patterns that can be used to manage state within Flutter, such as the BLoC

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Basic Form Validation with Flutter

I recently wrote an article on the Flutter Stepper widget which allows you to take a form (or similar content) and break it down into parts. If you're new to

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Animated Text with AnimatedDefaultTextStyle

When working with any mobile application you'll likely be in a position when you want to animate some text based on some application state. Flutter makes this easy with the use of AnimatedDefaultTextStyle, and we'll be looking at how to change between two states

How to use Vue.js, json-server and Axios

If you've ever wondered how to use Axios, the lightweight HTTP library inside of your Vue.js applications, here's the guide for you! We'll start with a blank Vue.js

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Introduction to Data Visualisations with D3: Select and Append

Part of my MSc Data Science course is related to the creation of data visualisations, and D3.js is a prime example of a powerful library that enables you to have full control over the process. In this article, we'll be looking at how

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NativeScript Vue and Vuex

I'm excited to announce my latest project over at NativeScripting.com – NativeScript Vue and Vuex! This course provides an overvue of Vuex and looks at how we can apply it

What's Next for Hybrid App Developers?

The story of hybrid application development is a never ending one. Each framework has to continuously strive and innovate to remain relevant, and the discussion of which framework to use

"Hello, World!" with Rust and Cargo.

Rust is an open source, systems programming language and has been voted "most loved" in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018. In this article, we'll look at "Hello World" with

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How to use the Fetch API with JavaScript

Fetch is a promise based HTTP request API built in to JavaScript. It's fairly well supported (87%+) and is promise based for ease of use and is a perfect fit for those wanting to use out of the box solutions for HTTP.

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How to use Wallaby.js with Angular v5

Are you looking to use Wallaby.js with Angular? This article shows you how you can do exactly that. This allows us to visualise our unit test results on-screen inside

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NativeScript and Angular: Integrating Firebase

Are you looking to integrate Firebase with NativeScript and Angular? This article looks at how we can do this in detail. We'll be using the awesome nativescript-plugin-firebase by Eddy Verbruggen

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Ionic 4 with Angular 1.6

Last week I published an early view of how to use Ionic 4 with Vue.js, today I'll be showing you how we can do the same thing with Angular

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Logitech K780 Multi-Device Keyboard Review

The Logitech K780 multi-device wireless keyboard is used to control up to three devices and is relatively portable weighing in at 837g and 380.8mm long. It is a decent

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How to use Vue.js with Ionic 4

Have you ever wanted to use Ionic with other frameworks than Angular? Now you can! Ionic 4 is in early alpha, so the implementation is likely to change as time

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Using the MoonRouter with Moon.js

Lately I've been using Moon.js in a couple of playground projects, and I was impressed by how easy it is to use the router. In this article, I'll be

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Angular: From Beginner to Advanced

Lately, and I'm sure you'll agree with me on this one, it's hard to keep up with all the latest and greatest front-end frameworks, libraries and projects available. As a

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Create Cross Platform Native Applications with Fuse

I'm always on the lookout for a new way to make fun mobile applications, and one of the things I've always been trying to achieve is interesting UI/UX. I

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