React Hooks and Context API are two relatively new features that have been added to React from v16.8 and v16.3 respectively. In this post, I'm going to create an app that can perform CREATE, READ, UPDATE and DELETE utilizing Hooks and Context API together.This new concept was introduced in v16.8 which is an alternative to classes. The Devs who used React before are familiar with functional components and class components. Many of these features available to classes - such as lifecycle methods and state weren't available to React until Hooks were introduced. The new Hooks add those class...
Windows sandbox – test before you install anything on your windows system
There are a lot of time that we think before installing an app on our system if it is safe or not. In May 2019, Windows got a system update with Windows Sandbox feature. Basically it lets you use anything before installing it. This feature is available with version 1903. To be more specific, Windows Sandbox is a virtual machine which can be created on-demand using Microsoft‘s hypervisor technology. It’s a very lightweight environment using a resource of 100MB only, and it’s well optimized to boot and run faster. It focuses on security, and it’s an example of efficient usage of integrated...
Top new javascript features introduced in es2020
Since the addition of ECMAScript in 2015, the overall state of the art of the development in JavaScript has emerged to a new height. The JavaScript language specification has been regularly revised with new features every year. The ECMA International is calling these features new ECMAScript 2020 or JavaScript ES11(see intro here). In this post, we are going to discuss a few new interesting features of those. LET’S DIVE INTO THE NEW JAVASCRIPT FEATURES
Create a custom progress bar using html5
A new element was introduced in HTML5 which adds the progress-bar feature to native HTML. It allows us to show the progress of certain tasks, like uploads or downloads, basically anything that is in progress. In this post, we are going to customize and style the progress-bar with animation. It’s very simple to use the new element for progress-bar. This element can be added using tag in the code. This element has three attributes, , and . Sample HTML as follows:
How to create Icon input element using html and css
There is a lot of time we need to customize input control. In this post, we are going to create a customized input-element with an icon before it. We will do it using only HTML and CSS. We are going to use a div element as a container for the input element. Inside our container, we will put the input element and our icon container. The icon container is also a div element. Here is our HTML:
Enable file transfer to google cloud compute engine
After installing WordPress on Google Compute Engine, you might need a way to transfer files to the VM. It’s great to have worked on the local machine and upload the changes via file transfer protocol. File transfer protocol needs to be activated first. Then you can use it via any FTP client. The first obstacle you’ll face after setting up a VM instance is how to transfer files to your Google Cloud VM. It is very obvious because google cloud does not have any shiny option on their dashboard. The basic transfer option is hidden in the SSH section of your VM Instances. Other than the basic...
Install WordPress on google cloud compute engine
Probably Google Cloud is the third most popular provider for cloud infrastructure after AWS and Azure. As its name suggests, Google Cloud is provided by Google. In this article, we will learn how to install WordPress on Google Cloud Compute Engine. Before going into the details, there are few things to look at. There are a few basic terms we need to learn before we get with the tutorial. The idea behind this is to inform you of all the various products Google Cloud has to offer. Once you develop and interest in something you see, you can start building your own apps in them!
Customize File Input Element Using JavaScript & CSS
There are numerous ways to customize the file input element in HTML. In this post, we are going to make the file input element more attractive using JavaScript and CSS. We are going to use one element to show an icon and one to show selection text inside a along with to design the input element. So the label is the container for SVG icon and span text. This is how our HTML code looks like: