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Should you commit the node_modules folder to Git?

That's a good question to have. There are pros and cons. I discuss the topic so you can make your own opinion. | Continue reading

@flaviocopes.com | 1 year ago

Debugging JavaScript

Every day we wake up, have a nice breakfast, head to the computer and there we sit, to write perfect code that does exactly what we want.Then we wake up.That would be ideal, right? But it was a dream.As good as you can become, there’s no way you can write bug-free code. Code has … | Continue reading

@flaviocopes.com | 2 years ago

Why a blog and not videos or podcasts?

This is an abstract from my book How to Start a Blog In the last few years, videos and podcasts have grown tremendously.Videos, in particular, are very popular. Kids want to become YouTubers when they grow up.Both videos and podcasts are awesome. I watch YouTube every day and I a … | Continue reading

@flaviocopes.com | 2 years ago

Ups and Downs of Having a Blog

This is an abstract from my book How to Start a Blog Having a blog is not all fun and games. There are many things that might give you a hard time on your journey.Realizing this is a first step in the right direction.Writer’s block Writer’s block is a thing. I have no general adv … | Continue reading

@flaviocopes.com | 2 years ago

How do you manage to learn several languages?

When I sent the first email newsletter where I announced the new SwiftUI series, I got this question: “How do you manage to learn several languages?”Good question!In the past I learned Pascal, C, Java, PHP, JavaScript, Objective-C, Go, Python, Swift. I think I listed all the lang … | Continue reading

@flaviocopes.com | 2 years ago

SwiftUI: Exploring Views and Modifiers

In the introduction to SwiftUI post I mentioned views.SwiftUI is all about views.Remember the Hello World app?import SwiftUI struct ContentView: View { var body: some View { Text("Hello World") } } ContentView is the main view. Its job is to define which views compose our app.In … | Continue reading

@flaviocopes.com | 2 years ago

Solopreneurship

I am a solopreneur.What’s a solopreneur? An entrepreneur that works solo. Alone. In total control of the direction and the operations of his/her own company. With no hires, and no boss.In my case no contractors, too.This has always been my dream, and I’m living it. I’m living my … | Continue reading

@flaviocopes.com | 2 years ago

Phaser: Physics and Screen Boundaries

JavaScript and Web Development Tutorials | Continue reading

@flaviocopes.com | 3 years ago

Living the “Van Life” as a Developer

I want to start a little series of posts on living the van life as a developer!What is the van life, and what does it have to do with this blog?Van life essentially means living in a vehicle. The reason I talk about this here is that it’s part of what I like doing. I can work fro … | Continue reading

@flaviocopes.com | 3 years ago

Python Control Statements

What’s interesting to do with booleans, and expressions that return a boolean in particular, is that we can make decisions and take different roads depending on their True or False value.In Python we do so using the if statement:condition = True if condition == True: # do somethi … | Continue reading

@flaviocopes.com | 3 years ago

JavaScript Strict Mode

Strict Mode is an ES5 feature, and it's a way to make JavaScript behave in a better way. And in a different way, as enabling Strict Mode changes the semantics of the JavaScript language. It's really important to know the main differences between JavaScript code in strict mode, an … | Continue reading

@flaviocopes.com | 3 years ago

Software Is a Superpower

We tend to belittle everything we already know. Since we know it, everyone should also know about this.But there’s one thing I’d never give for granted, and it’s the power that software gives us.Not just the ability to write software.Also having software we can use.No-code tools … | Continue reading

@flaviocopes.com | 3 years ago

The Deno Handbook, Node.js Reinvented with Rust and TypeScript

Get up and running quickly with Deno, a modern Node.js alternative | Continue reading

@flaviocopes.com | 3 years ago