Next.js vs. React: A Comparative Tutorial
Discover the differences between React and Next.js, a framework used by companies like TikTok, Hulu, and Nike to supercharge their web apps. Plus: Learn when and how to use Next.js, including rendering, routing, page, and navigation tips.

Ayyaz Ali
Harness the Power of WordPress Hooks: Actions and Filters Explained
WordPress developers might be tempted to customize this popular website builder directly, but that approach creates ongoing maintenance headaches. Fortunately, there’s a clean way to extend functionality: via WordPress hooks, actions, and filters.

Tahir Shahzad
Will JS Frameworks Spark a Front-end Revolution?
Are Vue.js, React, and Angular actually delivering a good developer and user experience, or are they used simply because they’re the current de facto standard? Discover some exciting approaches to web development.

Kevin Bloch
Building Modern Web Applications with AngularJS and Play Framework
Building robust web applications is often a lot about choosing the right tools. Doing so with a combination of tools that ensure both a modern, flexible front-end, and a solid, reliable back-end is something everybody wants. This article demonstrates exactly that trick by combining AngularJS and Play Framework to build a simple blog application.

Denys Sinyakov
One Size Fits Some: A Guide to Responsive Web Design Image Solutions
As mobile and tablet devices come closer to achieving final world domination, web technology is in a race to accommodate the ever-growing number screen sizes. However, devising tools to meet the challenges of this phenomenon brings a whole new set of problems, with one of the latest buzzwords to emerge being “responsive web”.

Kado Damball
Mirror API Tutorial: Google Glass for Web Developers
Wouldn’t it be great to develop for Google Glass without learning a new programming language, and even by just using knowledge common to all web developers? Yes, it is possible!
This article will introduce you to web development techniques you can use to build application used on Google Glass.

Demir Selmanovic
A Guide to Rails Engines in the Wild: Real World Examples of Rails Engines in Action
Why are Rails Engines not used more often? I don’t know the answer, but I do think that the generalization of “Everything is an Engine” has hidden the problem domains that they can help to solve.

Joe James
The 5 Most Common Mistakes HTML5 Developers Make: A Beginner’s Guide
It’s been over 20 years since Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau specified HTML, which became the standard markup language used to build the Internet.
HTML5 was supposed to finally solve our problems and become “one standard to rule them all (browsers)”. This was probably one of the most anticipated technologies since creation of the World Wide Web.

Demir Selmanovic
The 10 Most Common Mistakes Web Developers Make: A Tutorial for Developers
Today we have thousands of digital and printed resources that provide step-by-step instructions about developing all kinds of different web applications. Development environments are “smart” enough to catch and fix many mistakes that early developers battled with regularly. There are even many different development platforms that easily turn simple static HTML pages into highly interactive applications.
All of these development patterns, practices, and platforms share common ground, and they are all prone to similar mistakes caused by the very nature of web applications.

Demir Selmanovic
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