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We are going to construct a very simple MVC framework to get the concept. The code will be built and run locally with XAMPP. Those using Macs can use MAMP for the same purpose. Having a database and web server installed on your computer is the easiest and most affordable way to experiment with code. …
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JavaScript provides three methods for declaring variables. We can use the var, let, and const keywords. This abundance of choices is a source of confusion for a beginner developer. At least it was for me. While taking my first steps in the world of JavaScript. I wondered, “Why should a programming language use so many …
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MVC stands for Model-View-Controller, and it’s a way of structuring applications so they’re easier to understand, build, and maintain. A Brief History of MVC MVC isn’t new. It dates back to the 1970s, when a Norwegian computer scientist named Trygve Reenskaug introduced the concept while working at Xerox PARC. At the time, researchers were experimenting …
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JavaScript is a dynamically typed — also known as untyped — language. Typing is the process of defining the data type of a variable. In dynamically typed languages, typing is associated with the variable’s value and not the variable itself. Thus, in JavaScript, variables don’t need to specify a certain data type when they are …
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In programming, we instruct computers to do things, and we call these instructions programs. We can write programs using different programming languages, the same way we can communicate with other humans using different human languages. Each language consists of rules that dictate how to use data, and each data has a type. The operations that …
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Sessions and cookies are useful mechanisms that allow us to store data about a user’s activities on a website. But they do it differently and they server different purposes. We are going to dig-in both in this article. Cookies On an e-commerce website, we can put things we consider buying in a shopping cart or …
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In JavaScript, closing a line of code with a semicolon is not mandatory. This is because JavaScript uses a set of rules called ASI (Automatic Semicolon Insertion) to, as the name implies, automatically place a semicolon if it determines that a line break is also the end of a statement. For example: Notice how the …
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Working on an extensive development project with a lot of pages, a lot of CSS selectors, and different developers involved, makes the maintenance of the CSS styles difficult. Problems regarding CSS specificity often arise, and the altering of components in one area may affect components in another area, and so on. In order to deal …