>Getting started Get a good understanding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Everything you learn will have these as their base. The Mozilla Developer Network offers a good intro (no matter your browser choice) developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Getting_started_with_the_web
Anyone know of an free package that incorporates messaging and user profiles? I hate WordPress, so only recommend plugins if they can be independent of it
Kevin Stewart
Did any of you use flexbox in your recent projects? Should I use it or stick with regular CSS?
Justin Taylor
its pretty based. I use semantic-ui which heavily usess flex box, so I started using it too..
also, fuck those 2% who use IE 10 and lower
Carson Powell
What do you guys use for your SSL certs?
I'd rather not use LetsEncrypt, since at least a year would be nice.
Dylan Rogers
i used it once i fix some alignment issues with my text fields
Jackson Jackson
yeah it's quite useful. Still want to learn about the newer grid system as well.
it might only be 90 days, but they describe how to set up automatic renewals in their guide
Jace Collins
Great, thanks. I will start using it in my next project.
James Evans
> >Weird post. >The beginnings of web dev are incredibly hard, there's liek a thousand buzzwords raining down on you and you have no idea if they are important or not. >I remember my first (real) project, every few days a completely new technology or topic. Each topic is not terribly hard in itself, but it's like fighting against the Zerg: the sheer number can bring you down. >Do you understand at least the basics of Client-Server architecture and the HTTP model? Routing? Authentification? Security? Status Codes? YAML, JSON, XML? Templating systems? MVC? Where to put your code in MVC? JS and the DOM-Modell? SASS and SCSS? Bootstrap? jQuery? Whatever custom library you need to make things work? Did you learn your backend langauge of choice as well as the nuts and bolts of the framework you are using? >And just when you think you figured it all out, deployment comes and you start with a million differnt topics again.. >How much do I have to pay, how can I calculate how much latency/bandwith/throughput is OK? How do I install that shit and what's this fail2ban thing about? XSS? XSRF? And of course you monitor and log your stuff right so you how what is actually happening on your site? >A freaking nightmare. >There just isn't a entry level like in "normal coding" where you make a tiny gear of a big machine, you need to know a little bit of everything.
Is there a single book or website that goes over all of this type of stuff? Like maybe a school textbook? I feel like I'm just going through the motions of learning languages and don't really understand what is actually happening.
Christopher Martinez
>crosslink preview in US eastern time >actual thread in local time
there is no point in trying to learn "everything" What you actually need is an incredible small subset of what's available.
My suggestion would be to pick one frontend framework, one backend language and start building.
Then whenever you encounter something you don't know about, but would like to use, you can learn it then and there in a practical way. Plus you are actually motivated, because you want to implement it in your own project instead of just learning it "because that's what a webdev supposedly needs to know before they can do anything real"
Matthew Anderson
the fuck is all this webpack shit? never seen any course or class go over all of this. What the fuck is it? A bunch of JS libraries?
Lincoln Hughes
it's a tool to bundle your files and do some processing on them
you specify your entry JS file and everything that gets "required" inside it gets bundled together in the output. There are "loaders" you can use, so you can "require" almost anything from other JS files, to CSS/SCSS, images and what else you have. So you could for example have a bunch of small images inlined in your JS output and thereby save a bunch of HTTP requests, when the user loads your site.
Then there are also plugins, that let you minify your code, treeshake JS and CSS, rebundle your site on file changes, hotload in the browser, and so on.
Think something like Gulp or Browserify
Ayden Peterson
I heard, that the best way to learn something is making toy projects. So, can you help me with some ideas of reactjs beginner projects?
Or maybe, the way how to "imagine" what to make?
Nathaniel Mitchell
I need help from someone good with photoshop. I need to cut this guy out from the background, but his hair is hard to do. I tried using erase background, but it still looks wrong around his hair because it's not exact. Is there a better way to crop the figure out or change the background to white?
Adrian Walker
Use gimp and you can just adjust the threshhold of "select by color" by holding down the button when you click the background and dragging the mouse
Nicholas Watson
I like writing services I can use on multiple devices using i.e. crud or websocket. If you have a pi or something you can serve it on there over the local network and gain access to it from your laptop/phone whatever.
Chase Wilson
Ok I'll try that.
Jeremiah Robinson
its really easy man, id do it if i had photoshop on this PC
use the magnetic lasso (?) around him until you get to the hair, then go very carefully around it manually. Then select your selection, border the selection (or maybe its called grow? i cant remember) then add a glaussian blur to that bordered selection
Nolan Stewart
yeah this might be easier, didnt notice you have a solid background color
Luke Flores
I have another question. I need to set up a voicemail box online to receive calls and play a message, etc. What is the best option? I checked out Google Voice but it requires you to link your cell phone. I'm looking for a standalone voicemail service.
Luke Wright
20 seconds with quick select tool in photoshop.
Isaac Rogers
The problem is some parts of his hair are black from shadow, so they erase along with the black background.
Jeremiah Evans
I have json output like this [ { "id": "1928", "name": "1474669205977.webm" } ]
How can i get it with php and save as 2 separate values. $id and $name i get it with $json = file_get_contents('localhost/handy/?api&random'); $obj = json_decode($json);
i tried with foreach but it aint working
Samuel Green
I've gotten it this far but i still think it looks fucked up.
Liam Reyes
store the JSON response in a variable called data, then just go like this:
Here's the picture I first posted but with select opaque -> invert selection -> expand selection by 4 pixels -> select by color black -> delete. As in deteting black, but only near edges.
Brayden Hernandez
Hmmm that's a good point. The light seems so far away and obviously I want that first job because that's where most of the learning will be done anyway.
Thank you user for the response user.
Josiah Barnes
Nice. Thank you for this
Jaxson White
>never seen any course or class go over all of this Relying on courses or classes in web dev is retarded, the technology moves too fast. Webpack is the future.
Gavin Davis
defringe > black
Aiden Gray
is learning js today makes any sense? specially if I want do more than just create websites. >how js can be usefull now if not only in coding websites?
Kayden Ortiz
Why does everyone (even Google) shill Node.js? There is absolutely nothing that will persuade me to use JavaScript more than I absolutely need to: for a client-side interface.
Connor Garcia
Learning JS makes sense if you want to do frontend web development, i.e. clientside scripting and web apps.
You can also use JS on the backend (using Node.js), but that's just one out of many choices for a backend language.
You can use it for writing native apps using something like Cordova for mobile and Electron for desktop. But both of those are basically like writing webapps that have some extra native functionality added in. Also, there are many other programming languages and platforms for developing native apps.
When you say "more than just create websites", did you have something specific in mind?
Camden James
In 2077, operating systems will simply be a web app.
Eli Reed
If you're working in web, you should learn JS.
Juan Rivera
>how js can be usefull now if not only in coding websites? It runs on the client-side, server-side, and now thanks to React Native and similar frameworks, you can create desktop apps, too. You'd be stupid not to learn JS these days. Check out the stackoverflow survey which places JS at the very top. Check out which language has the most repos on Github (read: it's JS). There is no better time to learn JS. But if you're just starting you've got a lot of catching up to do: DOM APIs, Node, npm, React, Redux, Express, Koa, ES6, PostCSS, Webpack, Babel, Browserify, Gulp, RxJS, MongoDB, and the list goes on.
Zachary Reyes
>Why does everyone (even Google) shill Node.js? >There is absolutely nothing that will persuade me to use JavaScript more than I absolutely need to: for a client-side interface. Why would I bother answering your initial question given your subsequent statement? Your whole post negates any possible discourse.
Grayson Rogers
What is your advice for programming for graphic design with GUI (Dreamweaver CC)? I'm studying web development for one semester.
Gavin Anderson
>Dreamweaver CC
Kevin Phillips
because it's actually quite good
Gabriel Adams
use color replace to change the background to hot pink/green>Magic wand tool>change 5x5 to 11x11 pixel selction>click background>replace with paintbucket or transparency
Hunter Green
I'm taking this class to graduate with a BA in Graphic Design faggot, are you aware Dreamweaver has a code view option where you can program to your autistic content.
Jackson Russell
what CSS selector JS framework does Sup Forums use?
Adrian Mitchell
Any good RL php courses?
Finished codecademies course and its nice for learning the syntax and what objects, classes and methods are (again) but it fails to show what you can actually do with it.
Like creating a registration and login option for a website. Or storing a shopping cart in a mysql database.
>inb4 wrong thread
Samuel Garcia
>What is your advice for programming for graphic design with GUI (Dreamweaver CC)?
The best advice is not to use Dreamweaver or any WYSIWYG editor.
For design, you just need HTML, which is pretty simple, and CSS, which is simple to start, but getting the hang of the box-model can be tricky. Also there are a ton of random attributes and selectors that you'll almost never need, but in a tiny percent of cases, will make something way easier.
If you just want to make some simple things, you can learn enough CSS in a short period of time though.
I'll try, for a moment, to be rational. What advantages does Node.js provide that are unique?
Jayden Cooper
Alright I bookmarked the link in the sticky. I'm going to lurk here while I take the class so I cn have people review my code.
Hunter Turner
What are some nice FF extensions for dev tools
Brody Davis
If you want out-of-the-box functionality rather than assembling everything together from the bottom up then learn web programming with Java or C#.
The only advice for all the complexity of open source frameworks is to just avoid all the fancy new frontend frameworks and start out with html/css and vanilla js and move up from there. I think you learn more by starting out with vanilla PHP rather than using a framework like Rails, Django, Laravel, etc.
Justin Nguyen
>a BA in Graphic Design faggot sounds about right
Justin Baker
thx guys for answers.
back to your question I am new in the programming topic and I spend a lot of time doing research of what language should I start to learn. After trying a bit of any modern use languages (like C/C++, Java etc. and yes I know they are much 'harder' than js but only in first look) I came to conclusion that only JS fits my requirements and it seems like a good output for later coming decisions on what I really want to do and learn (frameworks)
I was just a little scared of usability of js (a jack of all trades is master of none) but I hope that frameworks really do their job.
Chase Martin
Run JS relatively well in contexts outside of the browser.
Luke Carter
$()
Brandon Sanchez
not the user you replied to but here is my take on it.
If you don't like JavaScript to begin with, then of course you will not like to use Node either. I know some python and some C++, but currently pretty much only use JS in my projects. It's nice to be able to easily switch back and forth from front- to backend and stay in the same language with the same environment of packages. Node is the only backend I used, so I can't make comparison, but the non blocking nature of everything is nice and easy to use imo. A regular argument is the lack of types. Some swear on TypeScript, but I haven't used that yet. ES6/7 also move the language in a good direction. Anyway, there is a reason why there is more than one option for backend languages, so use the one you think works best for you.
Aiden Nguyen
I find that CSS selectors in JS are rarely actually needed, but when I do need them I use querySelectorAll.
Hunter Wood
Its good for SPA's, I think most frontend frameworks are fed from the backend by node
Jeremiah Lee
Most frontend frameworks have no particular tie to backend frameworks.
Parker Wright
Generally frontend frameworks need some API to get data from the backend. I think is just saying that the APIs are commonly implemented using Node, not that they have to use it.
Hunter Ward
Thanks captain obvious.
Levi Murphy
>some API to get data from the backend. Either AJAX or the native fetch API is used for that purpose. APIs used in front-end frameworks like React all really boil down to AJAX under the hood. Neither are "implemented" by Node.
Elijah Taylor
>61472949 And while we're at it, let's not forget how the front page of SASS is filled with bullshit buzzwords, and the front page of LESS is filled with the actual code
Oliver Sullivan
...
Grayson Lee
LESS? SASS?
>not using PostCSS and cssnext in 2017 a.k.a. THE FUTURE
David Wood
Is hating MongoDB just a meme?
Austin Jones
MongoDB is just a meme
Elijah Nguyen
I think you're confused because I used the term "API".
What you're talking about is APIs for frontend features provided by libraries or frameworks.
I mean implementing a serverside API for communication between the client and the server. The client provides parameters in a request, and the server sends back a response containing some information.
An example of what I'm talking about is the Sup Forums API, which allows a client to retrieve metadata about boards and threads from the Sup Forums server.
Alexander Smith
base64'd meme god database
Daniel Harris
If this: :root { --mainColor: red; }
a { color: var(--mainColor); }
is the future, I'm just going to become a luddite because it's shit compared to:
I've never done java before, so I don't really understand
Benjamin Howard
How does postmates, uber eats etc etc get the prices of food from stores?
Do they manually call like once a week or do companies sign up for the service and email in to change prices?
Zachary Rodriguez
Postmates is a mix of store participation and user/driver contributions, Ubereats is 100% store participation
Gavin Price
Interesting. Uber Eats relies on their established brand, while Postmates offers incentive.
So, incentive it is.
Christopher Turner
Is the Udacity Full Stack nanodegree good? I can get code reviews for free via a grader friend so it's basically free for me
Leo Miller
It wouldn't hurt.
If your goal is to get a job and you already have some fantastic code samples, then adding new shit to your resume is a good idea.
Michael Harris
>jQuery
Top shiggy
Gavin Perez
You don't need one if you are using a modern view library.
Zachary Russell
>2100 Psychiatry Appointment >$npm rebuild brain
Jacob Robinson
>not using component-based styling >not being able to change themes dynamically >bundling your styles and for every view in one file even though the view isn't loaded >fucking up your whole site because of one CSS change
Hi 2016
Connor Reyes
Pretty much every modern framework is just a meme at this point. Most languages are memes. Our whole industry is a meme.
...Holy shit guys. We're living memes.
Jack Gutierrez
Did it take anyone else a while to fully grasp IoC and dependency injection specifically in .NET Core? I've only been studying it for a couple days, but it's such an abstract concept for me.
Brody Brown
Yes, we're a meme that is quickly becoming oversaturated.
If you're not in the career then get in as fast as you can and move jobs to get a higher title.
Once the "everybody needs to code" groups start shitting in sub-par coders and the "girls can kode too!" groups start forcing html4 using girls into Node positions, salary will plummet and no one will know what a serious developer is anymore. Diamond in a pile of trash scenario.
Jonathan Nelson
>no one will know what a serious developer is anymore That's why you need to focus on the things that differentiate you as a serious developer, as opposed to a codemonkey.
Given specific enough instructions on what needs to be written, and Google/StackOverflow, a codemonkey will be able to get a task done. A serious developer needs to be able to take requirements and design something that fulfills them, generally on a larger scale.
Ethan Carter
Why is React so comfy? Literally just a component library that isn't a bloated framework.
Set up with create-react-app, Don't have to touch webpack build config and it will always stay up to date, does proper code splitting and deferring resources. Does all the progressive web app stuff like register service workers and manifests.
Styled components actually make styling fun. Redux makes sharing state between many components very clean without needing to pass props everywhere or worry about parent components. React motion with their presets allow for awesome DOM transitions.
