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SBI Plans Launch of In-Store Payments With Ripple-Powered ‘Money Tap’ App
31.5.2019
SBI Ripple Asia is live testing in-store payments using its Ripple xCurrent-powered Money Tap app before a full launch "this year."
Coinbase Adds Support for EOS Cryptocurrency on Retail Site and Apps
31.5.2019
Coinbase has added support for the EOS cryptocurrency for customers on Coinbase.com and its Android and iOS apps
Block.one’s EOSIO Labs Release iOS and Chrome Authenticator Apps
29.5.2019
Block.one’s initiative EOSIO Labs has released Reference Authenticator Apps for iOS and Chrome
Resize Observer
21.5.2019
Creating websites that are reactive and responsive used to be considered advanced but responsiveness is a necessity for successful websites and apps. We’ve added media queries, matchMedia, and a host of other APIs to help developers make responsiveness easier and now we get a new one:...
Build an Ionic 4 App with User Login and Registration
20.5.2019
Ionic allows you to develop Progressive Web Applications (PWAs) and hybrid mobile apps. PWAs are web applications that run in a browser and allow for offline capabilities via service workers. They
‘Tackling Real World Issues’: Hackers at ETH New York Build Apps Geared Towards Social Change
19.5.2019
A New York Blockchain Week ended last Friday we spent time at an ethereum hackathon where developers came together to build blockchain tools with social impact
Weekly news: PWA Issue on iOS, Performance Culture, Anti-Tracking in Browsers
17.5.2019
In this week's news: resolving an issue when restarting progressive web apps in iOS, why The Telegraph now vets all scripts before they make it to their codebase, and Microsoft plans to add tracking prevention to the Edge browser.
The post Weekly news: PWA Issue on iOS, Performance Culture...
React Starter: Using Create React App to Make React Applications
15.5.2019
Usually when you create a React application, you’ll be creating a single page app (SPA). In order to make setting up single page apps easier, a CLI tool called
Emberfund Turns Your Phone Into a Crypto Hedge Fund
14.5.2019
Emberfund is a new mobile app that lets anyone buy into an index of cryptocurrencies that automatically balances itself over time
Nym Technologies Raises $2.5 Million to Anonymize Crypto Apps
13.5.2019
This startup is betting tokens can help incentivize privacy infrastructure across the internet
Learn How to Create BCH Apps With Bitcoin.com’s Developer Platform
13.5.2019
Are you a professional or a hobbyist programmer and want to create cryptocurrency enabled applications? Bitcoin.com’s Developer Platform offers resources for you to learn how to develop software based on the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network. Also Read: Crypto Meets Techno and Binance Security...
Currently Reading: Progressive Web Apps by Jason Grisby
3.5.2019
I’ve been reading Jason Grigsby’s new book on progressive web apps this past week and it’s exciting. Jason explains what PWAs are and how they work while while doing a bang-up job covering the business case for using them them, too. But perhaps you might be thinking that a PWA isn’t necessary...
Flow Object.values(…)
2.5.2019
JavaScript typing utilities, like Flow and TypeScript, have become popular in JavaScript apps of all sizes. As I mentioned in our Script & Style Show typing podcast, typing is a great way to implicitly implement documentation and validation. Flow isn’t always easy to perfect, however,...
How to Get a Progressive Web App into the Google Play Store
19.4.2019
PWA (Progressive Web Apps) have been with us for some time now. Yet, each time I try explaining it to clients, the same question pops up: "Will my users be able to install the app using app stores?" The answer has traditionally been no, but this changed with Chrome 72 which shipped a new feature...
Remove Recent Applications from Dock
19.4.2019
A Mac user’s dock is a sacred place. We customize our dock to no end, and if you’re ultra organized like me, you even use dock separators to group your app icons. Apple recently implemented a feature which displays three recently used apps in the dock. For basic users that’s...
Under-Engineered Toggles
10.4.2019
Toggles. Switches. Whatever you want to call them, they've been with us for some time and have been a dominant a staple for many form interfaces. They're even baked right into many CSS frameworks, including Bootstrap and Foundation.
It's easy to think of them in binary terms: on and off. Off...
Firebase: Get Your Apps Off the Ground Blazing Fast
9.4.2019
Google has invested heavily to make Firebase a full-featured application platform for web. It's dirt cheap to use. It's reliable. It saves up to 50% of yo
Responsible JavaScript
3.4.2019
We just made a note about this article by Jeremy Wagner in our newsletter but it’s so good that I think it’s worth linking to again as Jeremy writes about how our obsession with JavaScript can lead to accessibility and performance issues:
What we tend to forget is that the environment websites...
Better Than Native
27.3.2019
Andy Bell wrote up his thoughts about the whole web versus native app debate which I think is super interesting. It was hard to make it through the post because I was nodding so aggressively as I read:
The whole idea of competing with native apps seems pretty daft to me, too. The web gives us...
React Starter: Getting Started with React (2019 Edition)
18.3.2019
React is the uber popular JavaScript library that is almost everywhere you look these days. Learning React opens up a whole new way to build front-end experiences like websites, mobile apps, and mo