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An Introduction to jQuery — step-by-step Javascript tutorial on Progressive Robot

An Introduction to jQuery

This guide will take you through the JavaScript jQuery library by covering how to install jQuery in a web project; the definitions of important web development concepts such as API, DOM, and CDN; common jQuery selectors, events, and effects; and examples to test the concepts learned throughout the article.

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How To Create a Custom Source Plugin in Gatsby — step-by-step Javascript tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create a Custom Source Plugin in Gatsby

A source plugin is a bundle of code that handles bringing data into the Gatsby ecosystem from a given source. Sources can be from the local filesystem as with Markdown files, databases, published data feeds, or even completely dynamic remote data sources such as APIs. In this tutorial, you will build your own custom source plugin to bring new data into Gatsby from a real-world API. You will also format the data so that it can be accessed throughout Gatsby.

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How To Build a Weather App in Django — step-by-step Python tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Build a Weather App in Django

In this article, you will build a simple Django app that displays the current weather for various cities. To get the current weather data, you will use the Open Weather Map API. You will work with a database and create a form, so the concepts used here are applicable to more complicated projects.

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How To Build a Rate Limiter With Node.js on App Platform — step-by-step Javascript tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Build a Rate Limiter With Node.js on App Platform

Rate limiting manages your network’s traffic and limits the number of times someone repeats an operation in a given duration, such as using an API. A service without a layer of security against rate limit abuse is prone to overload and hampers your application’s proper operation for legitimate customers. In this tutorial, you will build a Node.js project deployed on the cloud provider’s App Platform that protects a Cloudflare routed domain with rate limiting.

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How To Set Up the code-server Cloud IDE Platform on Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up the code-server Cloud IDE Platform on Ubuntu 20.04

With developer tools moving to the cloud, creation and adoption of cloud IDE (Integrated Development Environment) platforms is growing. code-server is Microsoft Visual Studio Code running on a remote server and accessible directly from your browser. In this tutorial, you will set up the code-server cloud IDE platform on your Ubuntu 20.04 machine and expose it at your domain, secured with free Let’s Encrypt TLS certificates.

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How To Create a URL Shortener with Django and GraphQL — step-by-step Python tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create a URL Shortener with Django and GraphQL

GraphQL is an API standard created and open-sourced by Facebook as an alternative to REST APIs. It exposes a single endpoint for all communication instead of multiple URLs for different resources and solves the overfetching issue by returning only the data asked for by the client. In this tutorial you will create a backend for a URL shortener with Python 3, the Django web framework, and the Graphene-Django implementation, while diving into GraphQL concepts like queries and mutations.

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