It can be a confusing question – “How can I choose?” When you’re creating a website or hiring a developer there are many factors that come into play, and you want to get the best result for your website. So here are 5 questions for you to keep in mind: 1. How much is this …
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In this post I only want to show the formatting for a nested ternary operator, because this formatting took me a while to figure out. For my application, I used a function that took two arguments, and each one decided the value of a respective ternary inside of the function. See the example below: The …
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Using React Hooks Suppose we have the following state of objects nested within an array: In order to edit one of the ingredients without mutating the original state, we need to first make a copy of the original array. We can do this with the spread operator, or .slice(): Or: Now, we may be tempted …
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This is a short blog post explaining a revelation I had with useEffect in React, that has probably been causing me problems for a while, since I did not know why my component was not reading the updated props. Why won’t my component register the changed values of props??? The answer for me was that …
To export a database in Windows we need to run a file called “mysqldump.exe”. This file is located within the “MySQL” folder, which is inside the “Program Files” folder. The full path is shown below: C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 8.0\bin We need to run this file with the Windows Command Prompt or the PowerShell. So we …
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I built a site for a client on her server under the url ‘https://mysite.com/wordpress’, but then for production I had to change the url to remove the ‘/wordpress’. The wordpress files on the server were in the directory ‘wordpress’, which was in the root directory, ‘public_html’. So the files were in ‘public_html/wordpress’. I want to …
When gardening, you go to the shed, and in your bucket of garden tools, you see a medium sized garden trowel, and a similar trowel with a pointed nose. You decide you need to bring them both with you to plant your cactus, but was this really necessary? You could have used just one. Similarly, …
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Here are some tips for using typography on the web, taken from the book “Effective Visual Communication”, by Bo Bergstöm. Serif vs. Sans-Serif In print, serifs help, on screen, serifs hide. The serifs in fonts create a horizontal path through the text, and give the reader’s eyes a path through the letters to follow. This makes …
Computer looking to execute npm packages from wrong directory; Solved by adding\editing order of Windows environment variables in Control Panel. I spent a few hours trying to figure this out, but what it finally came down to was adding the path where the packages were being installed to the Windows PATH environment variable, and moving …
I have had trouble getting the CSS animations to have a smooth flow from the 100% mark to the 0% mark, in an animation where rainbow colors were to display for an even amount of time. I figured out, that the way to fix this issue, is to have your starting color (Orange) be designated …
