CanvasXpress takes user interaction in charts to the next level — In recent years, data has become increasingly important. In particular, many libraries have been created to enable developers and data scientists to explore and visualize data directly in the browser. Plotly.js is one of the most popular data visualization JavaScript libraries, but there is no shortage of competitors. In detail…

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi — Learning a language is a complex process. Luckily, the language learning community is about helping others achieve their goals and avoid difficulties. You may be surprised at the number of great people you can meet while learning a language. Get inspired by them. Each of us has our own recipe…

A strategy for going from 0 to 100 writers in a couple of months! — In February 2021, Mark Farnsworth and I launched the Language Hub publication, a meeting and sharing place for language learners from all over the world. Creating a new Medium publication is simple and only takes a few seconds. However, a publication without content is nothing more than a graveyard of…

Avoiding the “function similarity(character varying, unknown) does not exist” error — Comparing strings at the database level is a nice feature to have, especially considering that it is much faster and more efficient than doing it at the application level. To take advantage of the string similarity features in PostgreSQL, you first have to enable them. Let’s now learn how to…

A simple exercise to free yourself from the “I have to know everything” conviction — When I was a college student, I heard the following countless times: “I have to know everything if I want to ace this exam!” Now, as a freelance writer and software engineer, I hear new variations of the same statement again and again. “I have to know everything to know…

Everything you need to know about Angular Universal — Next.js is one of the most popular full-stack frameworks available, and it has rapidly become one of the most adopted technologies in web development. In addition to adding SSR (Server-Side Rendering) capabilities to React, Next.js provides a complete toolset for building fast, efficient, high-performance websites with low load times. In…

How to avoid them and what I wish I had known — I recently had to spend some time on my first project developed in 2018 when I was an undergraduate. This gave me the opportunity to take a look at the codebase and see all the mistakes I made. As a result of this, I wrote “5 Mistakes I Made in…

And store your data easier — Reaching millions of users with an application is every developer's dream. Achieving this goal becomes easier if users from all over the world can use your application. Since not all users know English or your target language, you need to design your application to be multilingual. …

Addressing the absence of the onHover event handler in React — Contrary to what you might think, there is no onHover event handler in React. This does not mean that React prevents you from dealing with the mouse hover event. On the contrary, React provides you with the onMouseEnter and onMouseLeave event handlers. These two can be used to implement mouse…