Two of the most used hooks in React: useState and useEffect — In this piece, we’re going to look at two of the most used hooks in React: useState and useEffect. If you’re not familiar with hooks, here’s the TL;DR: because of hooks, there’s almost no need for class-based components any more. Hooks let you “hook into” the underlying lifecycle and state…

In this article, I’ll teach you as many responsive design techniques as I possibly can in five minutes. This obviously isn’t enough to learn it properly, but it will give you an overview of the most important concepts, which I personally define as these: - Relative CSS units - Media queries …

I’m really excited to share this four hour course on HTML and CSS (← link) with you. If you’re curious about web development, but don’t know where to start, this is the perfect course for you! There are absolutely no prerequisites for it, and you don’t even need to install…

Let’s use ES6 and the Dropbox API to keep our receipts from turning into chaos. — In this article, I’ll show you how to create a handy little app which keeps track of your receipts. It allows you to dump all your receipts into a Dropbox folder and then hit a button to organize them by month. This is especially useful for when you’re doing accounting…

A quick tutorial on how to build products on top of the popular content collaboration platform. — This article will teach you the bare minimum you need to know in order to start creating apps on top of the Dropbox API. Once you’ve read it, you can also check out our free course on the Dropbox API if you’re interested in learning more. …

Let’s create an app which makes it easier to manage receipts. — In my previous startup, we used the Dropbox API heavily in our production process. Our products were children’s book apps for iPad, and each book was simply a collection of Dropbox folders containing all the visuals, music and voice-overs for the book. …

As a part of our collaboration with freeCodeCamp, their eminent instructor Beau Carnes has turned their entire ES6 curriculum into an interactive Scrimba course which you can watch today. As you might know, ES6 is just a way to describe newer JavaScript features that weren’t fully and widely accepted until…

2018 marked the beginning of Scrimba.com as a course platform. Throughout the year we launched a total of 16 free courses. And luckily for us, they’ve seemed to strike a chord within the dev community, as we’re now getting over 100K monthly visitors to the site. As the year is…

The last few years, machine learning has gone from a promising technology to something we’re surrounded with on a daily basis. And at the heart of many machine learning systems lies neural networks. Neural networks are what’s powering self-driving cars, the world’s best chess players, and many of the recommendations…