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Get Started Building GraphQL APIs With Node
A great exploration of GraphQL including, writing a schema, resolving schema functions, and accessing an API using the GraphQL Playground user interface.
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Pure CSS Super Mario 3 Powerup Selector
Play around with the Super Mario 3 powerups - coded in pure CSS!
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The Psychology of Color and Emotional Design
Color is just one of many factors that impact user emotion and motivation. It doesn’t exist in a proverbial vacuum, but it can be incredibly powerful when properly understood and applied.
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Pure CSS Landscape - An Evening in Southwold
An amazing example for the power of pure CSS!
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Consistent Backends and UX: What Can Go Wrong?
This articles examines how a lack of strong consistency makes it harder to deliver a good end-user experience, can bring serious engineering overhead, and could open you up to exploits.
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Programming Sass to Create Accessible Color Combinations
This article shows how we can implement a Sass function, that handles accessible color combinations in our designs.
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How to Make a Line Chart With CSS
If all you need is a simple line chart, there's no need to load in a huge JavaScript library or even reach for SVG. You can make everything you need with just CSS and a couple of custom properties in your HTML.
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Creating Secure Password Flows with NodeJS and MySQL
Reset password functionality is table stakes for any user-friendly application. It can also be a security nightmare. Using NodeJS and MySQL, Darshan demonstrates how to successfully create a secure reset password flow so you can avoid these pitfalls.
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Considerations When Choosing Fonts for a Multilingual Website
In this article, Omar Bourhaouta shows us how to deal with multilingual websites — especially cases where both right-to-left (RTL) and left-to-right (LTR) are used.
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Building An E-Commerce Site with October CMS and Shopaholic
The Laravel-powered October CMS enables to extend the functionality of the application through the use of plugins. In this article, we will learn how to create an e-commerce site through one of October’s most popular plugins, Shopaholic.
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