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How to be Efficient in PhpStorm: An IDE that Really Matters
It’s every developer’s dream to be more efficient. In this article, you’ll learn how one engineer saved himself from typing more than 20,000 characters over six months and prevented 1,000 bugs in the process.
Alexey Filatov
Alexey is a certified PHP/MySQL developer with extensive knowledge of OOP and design patterns as well as frameworks like Zend and Symfony.
Ionic 2 vs. Ionic 1: Performance Gains, New Tools, and a Big Step Forward
The Ionic project is rapidly gaining in popularity and is one of the most popular open source projects worldwide. With the recent announcement of the stable version of Ionic 2, this is the perfect time to underscore the Ionic 2 and its predecessor.
In this post, Toptal software engineer Julien Renaux outlines the major changes Ionic 2 brought to the platform and explains how to put these new features to good use.
Julien Renaux
Scrum Master Julien (MCS) is a front-end mobile dev who’s worked for startups and enterprises like eBay, and even the French space agency.
A Guide to npm: The Node.js Package Manager
In this article, Toptal Software Engineer Martin Gouws explains advanced features of the Node Package Manager that should be in every JavaScript developer’s knowledge base.
Martin Gouws
Martin is a young and talented JavaScript developer and software engineer who has his roots in enterprise Java.
Immutability in JavaScript Using Redux
In an ever growing ecosystem of rich and complicated JavaScript applications, there’s more state to be managed than ever before: the current user, the list of posts loaded, etc.Managing state can be hard and error prone, but immutability and Redux- a predictable state container for JavaScript apps- can help significantly.
In this article, Toptal Programmer David Xu talks about managing state using immutability with Redux, a predictable state container.
David Xu
David has taken several mobile apps from an idea to millions of users worldwide as the Chief Architect of Castle Global, Inc.
A Guide to Managing Webpack Dependencies
The Webpack module bundler processes JavaScript code and all static assets, such as stylesheets, images, and fonts. However, configuring Webpack and its dependencies can be cumbersome and not always a straightforward process, especially for beginners.
In this article, Toptal Software Engineer Andrej Gajdos provides a guide with examples on how to configure Webpack for different scenarios and points out the most common pitfalls connected to project dependencies and their bundling when using Webpack.
Andrej Gajdos
With a Master’s degree in Service Science, Management, and Engineering, Andrej works on projects of all sizes for clients around the world.
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PostCSS: Sass’s New Play Date
PostCSS is the hot new tool that’s making the rounds on the front-end side of web development. It has been quickly and widely adopted, and possibly will have a significant impact on how we base our present-day CSS.
In this article, Toptal Software Engineer Nicolás J. Engler introduces us and guides us on how to start using this tool, expand it with plugins, or integrate with other CSS processors, task runners, or bundlers.
Nicolás J. Engler
Nicolás is a product designer with a proven background creating and developing both physical and digital experiences.
Make Your Web Front-end Reliable with Elm
If you’ve spent your fair share of time developing web front-ends, you know that no amount of libraries and plugins are sufficient enough to make the development experience pleasant. Unpredictable event chains, complex data binding, and lack of structured data modeling only makes things worse.
Elm, a programming language built for front-end development, cuts to the root of all these problems and solves them there.
In this post, Toptal Software Engineer Stanislav Davydov provides a detailed guide to Elm and shows us how The Elm Architecture solves some of the most fundamental challenges of front-end development.
Stas Davydov
Stanislav’s 18+ years in organizations of all sizes have focused on eCommerce, complex web services, friendly UI, and data mining/scraping.
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