Security for your digital life is more important today than ever, but it can be a real pain. Mobile authentication typically means getting out your phone, unlocking it, opening an app, remembering a password, authenticating in the app. Authentication via biometrics…
The History of Components in Web Development If you’re a JavaScript developer, you’ve probably heard of Web Components. In case you’re not familiar with them, Web Components make it possible to define custom HTML components using JavaScript. Have you ever wanted to…
“It looks great, but could you just add Excel import?” If you’ve developed software for a long time, you’ve probably heard that question from a manager more than once. To a non-technical crowd, asking for Excel import/export doesn’t sound like a big deal….
React Hooks are a new feature added in the 16.8 release of the React JavaScript library. Hooks were intended to make it easy to use state and other reusable functionality in functional components. Before hooks, reusable functionality relied on class-based components…
Introduction In the past, embedded computing was a tiny niche of the software development world. Hardware was expensive, difficult to obtain, and even more difficult to write software for. Fortunately, that is changing. With the introduction of inexpensive,…
