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·May 11

Docker-compose to the rescue

Creating containers using native Docker commands, as we demonstrated in our previous article, gives a solid understanding of how Docker works. However, as service requirements increase, it can become cumbersome to manage them in this manner. Docker Compose simplifies the description of services, volumes, and networks in a YAML file…

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Docker Compose

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·May 11

Connecting multiple containers using Docker network

In addition to isolating applications, Docker also offers a means to streamline container communication through the use of Bridge networks. When you create a user-defined bridge network, containers within the network can resolve each other by aliases, similar to DNS names. …

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Docker

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·May 5

Containerising a React application

We will be working with a Gallery application made with create-react-app called snapshot. In the end, we should have our app running within a container and accessible on our host machine from a designated port. Prerequisites To complete this lesson you should have Git Docker Desktop functioning code editor (e.g Vscode) Step 1 —Pull down the repository …

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React

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·Dec 18, 2021

Frontend Mastery — How the internet works

For a tool currently so fundamental to our daily lives, It's shocking how many people(software engineers even) cannot in plain terms explain what the internet is and how it works. …

Internet

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Internet

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·Dec 14, 2021

Javascript 101: Events

An event is a signal that something has happened and is modeled after the observer pattern which allows loose coupling between the behavior and appearance of the page. Events, after they occur, are propagated throughout the DOM for their listeners to respond to. …

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Javascript 101

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·Dec 6, 2021

Javascript 101: Web workers

Javascript is a single-threaded language which means it can only act on one task at a time. To handle multitasking Javascript switches between tasks just like a single-core machine would do via a concept known as concurrency — virtual parallelism. This model though safe for non-blocking tasks can become a…

Javascript 101

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Javascript 101

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·Nov 29, 2021

Javascript 101: Handling Asynchrony — Part 2

An asynchronous call returns only after it has done its work and is capable of blocking the main thread of a program’s execution. Many languages handle this by starting an additional thread(an independent path of execution) for the request. …

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Javascript 101

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·Nov 22, 2021

Javascript 101: Handling Asynchrony — Part 1

When programs interact with things outside of the processor like communicating over a computer network, the operating system switches the processor between multiple running programs so it does not sit Idle. This is a classic case of asynchrony. Javascript being single-threaded has a number of ways of dealing with Asynchrony…

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Javascript 101

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·Nov 15, 2021

Javascript 101: Objects

Today we start by debunking a common misconception among Developers(and Spartans alike). Objects indeed are the general building block upon which much(not all) of JS is built. They do make up the eigth primary types in Javascript along with string, number, boolean, null, undefined, bigint, and Symbols. So to say…

Javascript 101

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Javascript 101

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·Nov 10, 2021

Javascript 101: What is “this”

If there has ever been a more tricky subject in Javascript, “this” would be it(see what I did there 😏). I can’t count the number of times I’ve had to guess the “this” binding for a particular function to make sense of a coding challenge all to no avail. As…

This

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This

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