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Is there a number for the contrast between colors? I'mnot talking about the contrast between text and its background color. I'm saying if I have 3 things all the same, let's say just solid circles, how to check they have enough contrast between themselves, and the white background.
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The Merkinman posted:Is there a number for the contrast between colors? I'mnot talking about the contrast between text and its background color. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_difference has some info on this
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Dec 19, 2021 17:41
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What do you guys recommend for a CMS that allows users to submit content? I'd like it to work with Vue but I can go with anything. I know Wordpress is a option but i'd like something that looks a bit...modern
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Dec 22, 2021 17:32
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Hey all, not sure if this is better suited for this thread or the get a job thread but figured I'd start here. I left a state govt IT position of 24 years earlier this summer that at one point I thought I'd retire in. A string of lovely governors and lovely management decisions led to a real lovely working environment, and I decided a change was in order. So I quit my job and am living off savings while doing a front end dev bootcamp through our local community college and Promineo Tech. Only a few weeks in, but I'm really digging it so far. JavaScript feels really intuitive, and although almost 100% of my experience is on the hardware side of things, that background is helping me pick stuff up way faster than the other students seem to be. Anyway, this is our curriculum for the bootcamp: Introduction to JavaScript (Weeks 1-6) JavaScript Algorithms OOP Design Patterns Unit Testing Front End Technologies (Weeks 7-13) HTML CSS JQuery Bootstrap AJAX Web App Design with React (Weeks 13-18) ReactJS JSX AWS REST NPM I'm also working through the lessons at freeCodeAcademy, and picked up a few courses at Udemy. Anything else I should be focusing on to increase my chances at landing a job next spring/summer?
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Dec 22, 2021 18:24
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Enos Cabell posted:Hey all, not sure if this is better suited for this thread or the get a job thread but figured I'd start here. I left a state govt IT position of 24 years earlier this summer that at one point I thought I'd retire in. A string of lovely governors and lovely management decisions led to a real lovely working environment, and I decided a change was in order. Typescript and maybe GraphQL. Typescript is amazingly useful and wonderful, and GraphQL is "hot". And when you are learning the JQuery stuff from that bootcamp, promptly forget it right after the test / assignment. Try to do all your JS assignments in Typescript if you can, even if it means doing them in JS for the class, then re-doing them in TS after.
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+1 to ignoring jQuery. It was essential 10 years ago when it provided a standard set of useful functions that worked cross-browser. But all the useful stuff eventually made its way into the browser APIs, and the cross-browser variations aren't anywhere near as bad as they used to be (or at least, JS compilation tools like Babel will automatically add polyfills to take care of it for you). These days you only see jQuery on legacy sites (like this one), and it's still used by Bootstrap to support some dynamic form components. The main thing to know is whenever you see a function call like "$('#foo')....", that "$()" function is jQuery's main entry point. I also highly recommend the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) docs for anything JavaScript or web-related. The docs are excellent, lots of samples, sandboxes to try stuff in-browser, etc. And an anti-recommendation: as you will soon find, w3schools and a few other sites are nothing but garbage, but they always float to the top of Google results. You can use some uBlock origin filter config to hide those search results: google.*##.g:has(a[href*="w3schools.com"]) Finally, invest some time in learning basics of UI design; layout, color schemes, supporting accessibility. Even if you know how to create a functional website, it's still a challenge to design that is easy to use, looks good, and assists differently-abled people.
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Dec 22, 2021 18:47
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minato posted:Finally, invest some time in learning basics of UI design; layout, color schemes, supporting accessibility. Even if you know how to create a functional website, it's still a challenge to design that is easy to use, looks good, and assists differently-abled people. 
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Dec 22, 2021 18:49
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Thanks for the feedback! I'll start looking into Typescript before I dive any further into JavaScript.minato posted:Finally, invest some time in learning basics of UI design; layout, color schemes, supporting accessibility. Even if you know how to create a functional website, it's still a challenge to design that is easy to use, looks good, and assists differently-abled people. Any good resources for this, or is it just a matter of checking out various sites to get a feel for what works and what doesn't?
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Dec 22, 2021 19:32
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Enos Cabell posted:Thanks for the feedback! I'll start looking into Typescript before I dive any further into JavaScript. TS is a superset of JS. You need good JS fundamentals or TS won't do anything for you
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Dec 22, 2021 19:43
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Enos Cabell posted:Any good resources for this, or is it just a matter of checking out various sites to get a feel for what works and what doesn't? https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/macos/user-interaction/data-entry/ Also google "bad ux design" for lots of articles on how not to do it... those can be more instructive.
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Dec 22, 2021 19:58
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minato posted:Lots of big companies have Human Interface Guidelines. Read a bunch, but don't take any as gospel. Apple has good HIG docs and explanations that apply to any kind of UI, not just websites. Excellent, thanks a ton! camoseven posted:TS is a superset of JS. You need good JS fundamentals or TS won't do anything for you RGR that, I'll keep working on JS
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Dec 22, 2021 20:00
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Enos Cabell posted:Any good resources for this, or is it just a matter of checking out various sites to get a feel for what works and what doesn't? I found this book to be very helpful https://www.refactoringui.com/book You can check out their old blog to get a feel for what the book will be like https://medium.com/refactoring-ui
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Dec 23, 2021 06:50
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Please note that despite the fact that nobody uses jQuery that much anymore, it's still a great place to start learning about libraries and more advanced DOM manipulation. You can absolutely forget about it after you learn React/Angular/Vue/Whatever, as they have all the functionality of jQuery built in. But it's an excellent first step for someone just getting their feet wet.
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Seconding the idea that learning jQuery is not 'wasted brain space'. Over the course of your career as an FED you're going to encounter it whether you like it or not and knowing something about it won't hurt. If you work in a house that does ASP.NET 4.5 or lower as an FED you're going you have a bunch of greybeards fistfight you over how jQuery is fine and SPAs are a 'solution without a problem' (In fact you're going to encounter that mentality with a lot of developers over 40, frankly, who think jQuery was/is all JS ever needed to be 'good'). And despite all of the poo poo jQuery gets, to this day no one's really bothered to come up with a nice/good/convenient animation API that works quite the same as jQuery does. I think there's a library out there that extracts the animation functionality of jQuery into some other library but I could never get the stupid loving thing to work the way I wanted it too, so there you go.
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Alright so I built an app using NextJS and with Strapi using a Postgre database. It's all running fine local, now my question is - where do I host it? I'm 90% sure the free tier of Netlify would be sufficient for the front-end, but the database is outside my expertise. I see most people recommend Heroku, but the free tier only offers 20 max connections. I thought that seemed small, but doing some research I think I found that the average Wordpress host only allows that many connections anyway, so if it works there with MySQL databases it should be fine for a small site. Just nervous because the next tier up is $50/mo. and I have no concept of when I'll need bigger infrastructure. Also, what's the workflow like to having a local development PostgreSQL db and pushing it live? I can use Git to push all my Javascript stuff onto Vercel/Netlify/whatever and have it automatically build and deploy for me, but is there a similar workflow with pgAdmin?
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Put the nextjs app on Vercel. That's what Vercel excells at. For the database use AWS or digital ocean database hosting. Strapi you could put on a service like heroku for free Also 20 max connections should be fine because with a nextjs site you should be collecting the data once and then having nextjs run filtration on the data, so essentially you'd use like one connection For local db development use a program like DBeaver which remotes into the sql server and you can run commands in there aperfectcirclefan fucked around with this message at 14:30 on Dec 23, 2021 |
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This is what you need for making web page frontends Maybe TS too, if you want. React etc if you're doing something very complicated.
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HappyHippo posted:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_difference has some info on this What is the number (numbers??) how do I calculate it out? Is this for similar things, only of varying color, or only the background color/text color combo. Basically I'm being told to introduce some background colors as an alternative to white (#F2F7F5 as an example), to break up content on a page. However I, and others, feel that it is too subtle, that people won't even be able to see the difference. So I'd like some sort of objective number I can point to and say "no it's too similar to white, not enough people will see it, so it's an a11y issue. Come back with a different color". I know such a thing exists for colors of text and its background, but that's not what I'm asking about here.
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Dec 23, 2021 22:52
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Dominoes posted:This is what you need for making web page frontends I’m not one to endorse using React for every little thing, but I honestly couldn’t imagine making any type of dynamic content more complex than a simple menu, carousel, or pagination without it. React itself has a very low footprint … unless you’re using a million other libs. So I guess it depends what you mean with “very complicated”. React + TypeScript is a really great experience.
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The Merkinman posted:What is the number (numbers??) how do I calculate it out? Is this for similar things, only of varying color, or only the background color/text color combo. If there is currently no colour distinction at all, then introducing one isn't going to be an a11y issue no matter how subtle it is. It just means you'll need to watch for potential a11y issues if part of the design starts relying on users being able to tell the colours apart.
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React will always have VDOM overhead, and is a DSL. Addressing performance when using it is is tough. Fundmantally, it and other frontend frameworks, are built without performance as a project requirement, which IMO is a dire mistake.
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Dec 23, 2021 23:29
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Right but many React frameworks just compile down into static HTML.
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Can you post an example?
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Dominoes posted:Can you post an example? Next.js, already mentioned a few posts above, is the obvious one. It's designed to turn as much as possible into static HTML, either at build time or by later rendering pages on demand and caching them across deploy cycles.
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Nice. Step in the right direction.
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Jabor posted:If there is currently no colour distinction at all, then introducing one isn't going to be an a11y issue no matter how subtle it is. It just means you'll need to watch for potential a11y issues if part of the design starts relying on users being able to tell the colours apart. We have 2 colors already, this is a 3rd and one of the original ones is tentatively changing to something more subtle. I just want to make some case of "the average visitor isn't going to notice this color compared to white because they aren't on a 5K iMac with studio lighting."
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Dec 24, 2021 02:46
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Show them their demo image on a low-end mobile device with brightness turned down halfway.
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Dominoes posted:React will always have VDOM overhead, and is a DSL. Addressing performance when using it is is tough. Fundmantally, it and other frontend frameworks, are built without performance as a project requirement, which IMO is a dire mistake. If your project is getting large enough to have performance problems, your vanilla JS project will either also be having them or have gotten so complicated you’ve effectively created your own framework anyway.
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Figuring out how to deploy this Next.js + Strapi + PostgreSQL stack feels like hopping into the cockpit of a space shuttle and trying to do a lunar landing. But there was a time not so long ago that I shied away from doing any CLI stuff because "What do you mean there isn't an .exe I can just download?" Now I've got it mostly figured out; the trick was decoupling everything in my head, because I'm used to "Wordpress is the frontend is the CMS is the database" Holy Trinity style development. I could use Wordpress, but it doesn't seem possible to filter based on Advanced Custom Fields. Next.js is on Vercel. I was doing this anyway with static sites, so this was easy. Strapi is on my local machine for right now, and it can connect to the database. Seems like I could host this on a $10/month Digital Ocean droplet. The DB is on Heroku. I need to figure out how to set up permanent credentials using Heroku, because the ones they give you change every so often unless you set them up the way they want you to. I need to figure out a way to sync my local database to the one on Heroku/Digital Ocean, if that's possible, the same way I can develop the Next.js part on my local machine, push to Github, and have Vercel build it automatically. Strapi doesn't have an export/import or data backup, and the only plugins that did that aren't compatible with the latest version.
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Dec 28, 2021 23:16
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Download DBeaver for the database and it can remotely connect to the DB on Heroku.
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man github actions is so cool. being able to publish a package to NPM and have people manually approve before the publish happens all within github is so nice to have.
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First off, I wanted to thank everyone in this thread, particularly those of you who reached out with critiques of my personal site. I worked on it a bit more and since then I've started getting exponentially more responses for my applications, several of which coming directly from my site. I've since accepted a generous offer at a new company and will be starting my second web development position later this month. edit: Closed! Verisimilidude fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Jan 24, 2022 |
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An experienced developer that also has PM and/or BA experience for 80-100k and no equity is crazy IMO. That's already low for just a dev, but BA or PM experience is a huge value add over just dev skills at many companies.
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Verisimilidude posted:First off, I wanted to thank everyone in this thread, particularly those of you who reached out with critiques of my personal site. I worked on it a bit more and since then I've started getting exponentially more responses for my applications, several of which coming directly from my site. I've since accepted a generous offer at a new company and will be starting my second web development position later this month. Great to hear! I just PMed you.
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Can someone help me figure out http2, it looks like an interesting technology and I want to write my next app using it. I understand there's a "compatibility layer" so that you can use it while continuing to write apps "the old way" but I'm interested in the new way. https://www.sohamkamani.com/nodejs/http2/ The above guide is one of the only resources I've found on the topic that doesn't say "use express and bastardize the framework even more." My intent would be to write an app in node with an accompanying client side app. My understanding of one of the primary benefits of http2 is that it's a persistent connection between the client and server. So I want to load my html and have that act as a persistent connection. But that doesn't seem to be right. It seems like I need to load the html the "old way", then from within my client side code create a persistent http2 connection from which I can make any further requests. But then, I don't understand what I'm supposed to do such that all of my resources like css or js or images are loaded through it. It seems like first page load along with whatever is on the page is all still loaded "the old way." Like, how can I create a http2 connection, without having my javascript file loaded for example. Isn't the browser supposed to handle a lot of this? Additionally, server side. I got pretty comfortable with the fact I could set and then change headers at will using `setHeader()` before they'd all be sent out at once after I was ready to start writing the body of the response. But with the new implementation, whenever I get my hands on a stream instance, it seems like my only option is to write a header or not. I can't overwrite it, for example. It just sends it out right away. Am I not getting it? Additionally, now that http2 is all binary does that mean I need to do a bunch of manual stuff with the responses once it gets client side? The old way always expected text. So now I need to convert everything, like JSON for example, before I can parse it? I feel like I've confused myself more than I've helped myself over the last week trying to get to the bottom of all this.
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After a bit more experimentation I was confusing the client side implementation that you would put in the browser with a client side implementation on the server. In fact because http2 requires use of ssl, the pre-flight handshake informs the browser that it's http2 and it does in fact handle a lot of this stuff after that. So you can basically build a web app without thinking too much about it. The structure of your server side code is quite different as long as you aren't using the compatibility layer. But it also looks a lot easier too, working with binary all the time for example makes things much clearer.
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Few questions...I haven't used React in a while. 1. Have people transitioned to Hooks exclusively or is it worth still using Redux? 2. Is it possible to do a switch case in JSX for conditional rendering? Thanks
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aperfectcirclefan posted:1. Have people transitioned to Hooks exclusively or is it worth still using Redux? The answer is "mu", because this isn't an either/or.
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aperfectcirclefan posted:Few questions...I haven't used React in a while. In our current tech stack we're planning to switch away from redux and go with pure hooks. It seems the best way to go for configuration reasons. We're currently using a redux and redux saga layer in our mobile app and it causes some issues with functional components, which ultimately means we need to resort to class components throughout major sections of the app. I love redux so much, but if it means having more options I can see hooks being my go-to for all future projects.
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I thought the push for pure hooks was to get away from class-based components, which vastly improves maintainability and composability. Redux seems to address an orthogonal concern, but I'm no expert.
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