Have you ever tried adding a filter to your face on a popular social media app? Maybe you’ve had the fun experience of adding a silly hat, cool glasses, or cat ears to your selfie or video chat. If you have tried one of these filters, perhaps you have … Read more…
2020 was a huge year for Laravel. It was the year that we saw this beloved framework take leaps and bounds over its competition and push the PHP ecosystem further. The Laravel team managed to make the framework even more powerful by adding new authentication … more Read More
Images have been a key part of the web for decades. Our brains interpret images much faster than text, which is why high-quality visuals drive conversions and user engagement. Just think about landing pages and product photos, feature panels and hero … more Read More
Static site generators (SSGs) have become increasingly popular over the past decade. This article discusses how your site could benefit from the developer-friendly build processes, easier deployments, improved performance, and better security offered … more Read More
In this lesson, we’re going over how to create private class fields using TypeScript’s `private` modifier. However, as we’re going to see, the `private` modifier doesn’t give us any actual protection at runtime; it only exists in TypeScript’s type system … more Read More
In this lesson, we’re going to explore template literal types, another powerful feature of TypeScript’s type system. Template literal types have the same syntax as template literals in JavaScript, but they’re used in type positions. Using template literal … more Read More
Closures are an alternative to truly private class fields. If you need to encapsulate a private variable so that it can only be accessed in a controlled way, you can use a closure. This technique is particularly useful when your code has to run in older … more Read More
This lesson introduces private class fields which (unlike regular class fields) cannot be examined or modified outside of the class they’re defined in. We’re going to contrast private class fields with TypeScript’s `private` modifier and public class … more Read More
In this lesson, we’re going to learn about conditional types, a powerful feature of TypeScript’s type system. Conditional types let us express non-uniform type mappings, that is, type transformations that differ depending on a condition. A conditional … more Read More
