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Startups - How to Promote Your Product Quick & Easy Way

by Nidhi Sarvaiya on 2nd June, 2017

After months of hard work of planning, discussions, development and testing, your product is finally ready for launch. As difficult as it is to convert your idea into a product, it is more difficult to market and reaching out to the right users.

There are many approaches which have come up over the years to launch the product into the market - sharing your product on social media sites, marketing it through search ads etc.

While these approaches help, they require time and effort or spending money for advertising. It is normal for well established or funded companies to launch a product with paid marketing, but for small startups or bootstrappers, it is not an easy choice.

There are some platforms which with some effort can give that initial boost in reaching out to your prospective customers.

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Published in startups | Tagged with startups, minimum-viable-product

How to Integrate Your Phoenix Application with Semantic UI and Webpack

by Murtaza Basrai on 2nd March, 2017

Semantic UI is a great looking UI framework for web applications and websites. It provides a lot of ready to use components which is perfect for creating a decent looking application very quickly.

Recently I was trying to use Semantic UI framework with Phoenix project and came across the issue in integrating those two. Semantic UI comes with Gulp build tool, and Phoenix project comes bundled with Brunch build tool. For the integration, I decided to bring both to a middle ground - Webpack 2.

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Published in design, web-development, javascript | Tagged with front-end, responsive-web-design, web-development, elixir, phoenix, javascript

Elixir & Erlang Setup with asdf Version Manager

by Srikala Bharadwaj on 13th September, 2016

The asdf version manager fits all Elixir & Erlang version management needs and some more. The primary reason for choosing asdf is that it can help with version management of Node.js, Ruby, Python, Postgres and more.

Instead of installing 3 different version managers to manage Elixir, Erlang and Node.js , we can use asdf for all three. Step wise installation and configuration details has been provided.

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Published in version-manager | Tagged with asdf, elixir, erlang, nodejs

Top 10 Editors For React Native Mobile App Development

by Murtaza Basrai on 9th September, 2016

React Native is a trending open-source project by Facebook Inc. that makes possible to create efficient and effective mobile applications for iOS & Android using JavaScript.

There are so many tools out there for development and it at-times becomes difficult for me to choose the right tool for a particular programming language. But React Native has support for many popular code editors so it is great to know that while migrating to React, we don't have to migrate to a different code editor.

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Published in javascript, react-native, products, mobile | Tagged with android, products, mobile, reactjs, ios

Mobile App Development With 8 Awesome React-Native Starter Kits

by Murtaza Basrai on 18th August, 2016

There are so many reasons to love React Native. React Native is the trending technology that makes possible to create efficient and effective mobile applications for iOS & Android using JavaScript. Getting started on a new app from scratch consumes quite some time. But here's the good news - There are many open-source React-Native boilerplate projects and UI starter kits available to kickstart the app creation with merely few lines of code. Some popular projects are listed below.

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Published in javascript, mobile, react-native | Tagged with open-source, javascript, ios, android, reactjs, mobile

16 Opensource EmberJS Projects to Learn From

by Archana Chandrasekharan on 4th May, 2016

EmberJS with ember-cli provides an excellent structure, style and uniformity to the frontend application development. If you understand how one project is organized, it is very easy to understand any other project which uses ember-cli. While it is easy to recognize where code exists, it is still a challenge to build a frontend application from scratch, and like having some reference projects always helps. Here are a few projects to start your frontend development with EmberJS. They cover everything from task management systems, Discussion platforms, content publishing platforms etc.

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Published in javascript, web-development, products | Tagged with frameworks, front-end, javascript, open-source, web-development

16 Opensource Reactjs Projects to Learn From

by Archana Chandrasekharan on 25th April, 2016

ReactJS can be confusing when it comes to beginners when they have just finished with their tutorials on React and entering the stage where they start doing projects using React. If you are someone who is in your initial stage of learning React and you need some reference projects, you are at the right place. Open-source React projects can get you a better understanding of how everything works and helps you write better code. We are listing out ReactJS applications like content management, task management, iTunes application, application for Google Maps etc. to showcase how ReactJS can be useful in different backgrounds.

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Published in javascript, web-development | Tagged with javascript, open-source, web-development, products

Mobile Native App Development with 11 React Native Tutorials

by Archana Chandrasekharan on 30th March, 2016

React Native enables you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React. The focus of React Native is on developer efficiency across all the platforms you care about — learn once, write anywhere.

Facebook uses React Native in multiple production apps and will continue investing in React Native. The paradigm employed by React Native allows it to use native iOS components and bring about changes to the UI through a JavaScript thread running in the background.

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Published in javascript, tutorials, web-development | Tagged with web-development, tutorials, javascript, reactjs

15 EmberJS Tutorials for Building Awesome Web Applications

by Archana Chandrasekharan on 28th March, 2016

Ember.js is an open source JavaScript client-side framework for developing the web applications and uses the MVC architecture pattern.

Ember is used on many popular websites, including Discourse, Groupon, Vine, Live Nation, Nordstrom, and Chipotle. Although primarily considered a framework for the web, it is also possible to build desktop and mobile applications in Ember. The most notable example of an Ember desktop application is Apple Music, a feature of the iTunes desktop application.

Start learning Emberjs 2.0+ with the following tutorials available online.

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Published in tutorials, web-development, javascript | Tagged with tutorials, web-development, javascript

Learn ReactJS with 20 Free Online Tutorials

by Archana Chandrasekharan on 17th March, 2016

React.js is a Javascript library for building user interfaces which was developed by Facebook. It is known for its fast performance, it is one of the best choices for building mobile sites. The well-known applications build with React are Facebook and Instagram.

React, which is one of the most popular Javascript libraries and having strong React skills is a great way to get ahead with building modern web apps right now. It has a strong foundation and a large community behind it.

The following are the 20 free online tutorials available which could get you started with React.js.

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Published in web-development, tutorials | Tagged with reactjs, tutorials, web-development