We've been working hard to provide developers with useful knowledge and unique viewpoints on SitePoint, and would love to show you some of our top articles from June.
Learn to Design and Animate in 3D with Zdog
There’s a cool JavaScript library that names like Chris Gannon, Val Head, and CodePen are all raving about. You can also find it on Product Hunt, where it’s been doing rather well. The library is none other than Dave DeSandro‘s Zdog.
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How to Plot Charts in Python with Matplotlib
You generate a huge amount of data on a daily basis. A critical part of data analysis is visualization. A variety of graphing tools have developed over the past few years. Given the popularity of Python as a language for data analysis, this tutorial focuses on creating graphs using a popular Python library — Matplotlib.
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4 Signs It’s a Bad Idea to Quit Your Job
Edwarden, a developer and StackExchange user, wanted advice. His boss yelled at him for requesting a promotion in the future. Or more specifically, asking for advice on the best process for receiving a promotion. Edwarden exceeded his manager’s expectations. Other managers were also very happy with his performance as well. His manager also knew what Edwarden wanted to discuss ahead of time. It didn’t matter.
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10+ Top Vue.js Tools & Libraries
Vue continues to grow in popularity and is rapidly being adopted by many developers, and Vue.js tools are popping up everywhere. This is not without reason: Vue’s shallow learning curve, clear functionality-driven structure, and excellent documentation make it easy for novices to pick it up, and for more experienced developers to make a switch from other frameworks like React or Angular.
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An Introduction to Cloudflare Workers
Cloud computing in its various incarnations — SaaS, PaaS, IaaS — has had big successes. Some of us still recall the $212 million purchase of PaaS provider Heroku in 2010, which at that time was — architecturally speaking — little more than a high-level deployment layer. It had a very posh gem for smooth and easy deployment of apps and frameworks like RoR, Python or Node apps running on Amazon’s infrastructure. The concept of Serverless Computing was born.
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A Beginner’s Guide to Feathers.js
Feathers is built on top of Express, a minimalist web framework for Node.js. If you’ve completed the tutorials demonstrated in the links, you’ll realize that it’s quite tiring building RESTful APIs using just Express. With Feathers, most of the repetitive work is already done for you. You only need to focus on configuring and customizing code. Let’s dive into the code and learn how this web framework works.
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Premium Previews
We've also released a number of extracts from SitePoint Premium for free on the blog. Check them out:
- Build a Real-time Chat App with Pusher and Vue.js by Michael Wanyoike
- A Beginner’s Guide to Working With Components in Vue by Kingsley Silas
- 8 of the Best Design Handoff Tools by Daniel Schwarz
- How to Build a Vue Front End for a Headless CMS by Michael Wanyoike
That's it for this month. If you're looking for more, check out our June roundup. Let us know what you'd like to see more of in the comments!