Aphinya is a skilled tech writer with field experience in software development, agile, and fullstack JavaScript. She is a dev advocate and community builder, helping others navigate their dev journey.
React Native is making waves out in the world of cross-platform native application development. It’s being used at production level in various places — with Discord (for their iOS app), Uber Eats, Bloomberg, and Instagram being the main examples for commercial implementations. Released back in 2015, React Native borrows the...
JavaScript is a strange little big creature. It was created in ten days and was originally regarded as the “wannabe” programming language. In its early days, JavaScript was the equivalent of the little guy in the garage — tinkering out snowflake effects and kitsch text-animations back in the 90’s, earning...
Bloated code doesn’t bode well for anyone. In the short term, everything seems fine. We tell ourselves tiny little white lies that we’ll sort it all out later — but we never do. We get sidetracked, sidelined, or switched over to a new project completely. Then we come back...
CSS is one of those things we see get thrown around but not really explained. If it does, we only get to scratch the technical surface. Over the years, CSS has grown from something that makes the web prettier into a tool that can be infused with user experience psychology...
The world of front end development and design are merging into one big, interdisciplinary space — and to stay on top of your game, you need to be skilled in both areas. Or at least have knowledge in the other. All front end developers can code. However, when it comes to...
Ideas are the building blocks of code. They give you the scaffold of how to think, how to create, and how to best write your code. Without it, you’ll be coding yourself into a corner in no time. Lack of knowledge and awareness is also how code smell starts....
