A tutorial on hashing passwords using bcrypt. — User authentication is perhaps the most crucial part of just about every website and web application on the internet. It is also a very tricky and difficult part of application development for a lot of developers — especially those that are just starting their careers. One of the main reasons…

The power of using React hooks makes building out scalable applications so much easier. Thanks to the introduction of hooks in React 16.8, writing React components is as simple as writing a JavaScript function — literally. In React years past, in order to have access to state or a component’s…

In today’s world, if a business does not have a website, they are already behind the curve against their competition. Statistics have shown that better than 85 percent of consumers are searching for and comparing local businesses online. …

Since a young age I have been interested in technology and computers. I got my first computer — a fossil by today’s standards — at the age of 12, and I did what any 12-year-old with a shiny new computer would do: I took the machine apart! I wanted to…

When it comes to developing effective sites, page load speed is crucial — especially for user that are visiting from mobile devices on their mobile carrier’s network speed. In 2021, Google ranks sites based on several factors — from Cumulative Layout Shifts to page load speeds and unused JavaScript that…

In front-end development, there are times when you are creating a login or a sign-up form and you want to give the user the option to show their password so that they can make sure that they typed everything correctly, rather than hiding it behind dots or asterisks. …

If you have spent any time developing responsive web sites, I am sure that you, too have realized that getting your font size to scale to the size of the viewport without looking too small on smaller viewports and too large on larger viewports is not always easy. I have…

In today’s internet world, having a website is not enough. With over 50 percent of web users browsing the internet via mobile devices — from mobile phones to tablets and even smart watches — it is important for your website to be responsive and mobile friendly. Sure, you have heard…

When I first started programming with JavaScript, my conditional logic statements were often comprised of massive amounts of nested if…else if…else statements. Initially, when writing these statements, they made sense because they walked through the logic step-by-step and the function executed properly based on the logic. Hoverer, weeks or months…