Sunday, April 27

Web Development

AWS Amplify Console + Route 53 + Git :  Almost Magic.
AWS Services, Projects, Web Development

AWS Amplify Console + Route 53 + Git : Almost Magic.

Amplify This! Over the last month or so I have been playing around with AWS Amplify - I am hooked. What is this magic you ask? Well it is simple CI/CD that makes deploying a website quick and basically painless - at least if you are creating a static simple HTML site. We get a little more complexity when we add the back end, but even then it is pretty much magic in a box. What do you need? An AWS Account, a Github account, a domain that is registered on AWS Route 53 and some basic HTML knowledge. Setting up a quick Git Repository. Log into your github account - https://github.com/loginClick on the "New" repository buttonType in a name, you can set it public or private, initialize it how you like.Clone to your local machine, open up the directory.Go into your local c...
Bootstrap 5 – jQuery
Bootstrap, Web Development

Bootstrap 5 – jQuery

I was really happy a couple months ago to see that Bootstrap 5 is (mostly) leaving jQuery behind. jQuery is an amazing tool, and its usefulness can best be shown by the fact that so much of what it was used for is not just integrated into the JavaScript standard now. If you haven't had a chance to catch up on it Free Code Camp has a nice tutorial for you: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/bootstrap-5-vanilla-js-tutorial/