Articles by Estee Tey - Software Developer & Technical Blogger
Padlet has launched a project to bring its Board product to WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) Level A standards, focusing on improved text alternatives for images, better keyboard navigation, and robust screen reader compatibility.
This article, reposted from Padlet's blog, is their first-ever technical piece. With books, we have the freedom to include as many pages as necessary to convey information to our readers. However, with screen devices, we are limited to a single fram...
It is my 3rd time joining Hacktoberfest. This time, I chose to join the event as both a maintainer and a contributor. Being a contributor Last year, I was quite active as a contributor. However, this year, I went on a 3-week holiday and couldn’t acce...
Growing up in Singapore, I was taught not to chase my dreams. Today, I am still living the mediocre person’s life, and the only difference is that I have a job title of a Software Developer. I like coding and creating solutions to improve people’s li...
It’s been around 5 months since I started learning React Native with Typescript. Here are some tips, tricks & resources that I’ve gathered along the way which may help you on the following topics: Project Templates Local Storage, SVG, Accessibility,...
Introduction Having custom assets is pretty important to make your app look unique for both branding and user experiences purposes. On desktop, in the millions of tabs that are left open in the browser, users find their target web application primari...
Recently I started a side project Billy, a React Native bill tracker app which uses Supabase for user management & database. Initially, I wasn’t too sure of all the fields that the Bill model should have, so as I developed the project, the data model...
Introduction to Moment.js Moment.js is the most commonly used JavaScript library to deal with datetimes, however for many use cases today, it may not be the best library to use given the issues of mutability, file size bundles and that it was designe...
Introduction to fetch Fetch is a Web API for you to make API requests and fetch resources in an easy way. It is also how most new web developers learn to call APIs. According to MDN Docs, it returns a promise that will not reject on HTTP error statu...
Supertokens is an open source user authentication library that is quick to implement and easy to customize for developers. In this series, I will teach you how to add email password authentication based on SuperTokens into a project where the tech st...
In this article, I will show you how to implement 3 features that I thought to be valuable of a CSS playground (here's the why section if you want to learn why before how) using CSS and Vanilla JavaScript. Live Preview Export CSS Functionality CSS V...
In enterprise projects, you would often be thrown to work on a random spot of a very big system rather than building services one by one from ground up like start-ups. Hence, it could be much more difficult to grasp and piece together the different b...
In this article, I will show you a simple scenario where you can learn how to utilize Sourcegraph to: Figure out the library of an unfamiliar UI component & use it in a project Find other projects that use this UI component Monitor for new projects...
The scrollbar is easily one of the most neglected UI components out there that are not leveraged by many websites to enhance their users' experience. By default, on all HTML, when the content of the website exceeds the viewport height, a scrollbar wi...
This article is an enhanced version of the lunch & learn session that I presented recently on Introduction to Scalable Vector Graphics. You can navigate the slides by using your arrow keys . The slides can be found here, where you can choose to ...
In October 2021, I have joined Hacktoberfest for the 2nd time, with much more elaborate goals and commitment compared to the 1st time when I joined Hacktoberfest 2 years back. I still have the shirt from my participation back then. Here's a picture o...
We have reached the 2nd half of Hacktoberfest. This year, the event is super hyped with plenty of swags from different communities in addition to the cool tee/tree that you would get from Digital Ocean ⚡️ While all of these are motivations for you to...
A quality curated collection that you can check out anytime before, during, and even after Hacktoberfest 2021 💻 Here, you will find articles, hands-on tutorials, repositories, and communities where you will learn and improve your understanding about...
In this tutorial, I will be demonstrating step by step how I migrated a React(JS) Single Page Application (SPA) project to Next.js. No knowledge of Next.js concepts is required to follow along. The article includes the issues that I've met and the re...
What is a user interview? Everyday, you probably would have said something along the lines of: "Hey, how're you doing at work?" "What would you guys want for lunch?" "How is the COVID-19 situation is still so bad everywhere?" "Mom! Why are you actin...
The difficulty of working on a side project Have you ever felt stuck on coming up with a side project idea and committing to it? That's how I felt for a very long time - even when I have been working as a software developer for a whole year after I g...
Where it began 5 years ago, being a typical mugger (Singlish term for a studious person 🍺) in my school days, writing notes for myself and sharing it with my friends was a norm for me. There used to be a local popular A-Level notes platform called...
Introduction This blog post aims to teach you about the fundamental concepts of VueJS from a React developer's perspective so that you can use your existing knowledge of components to easily pick up VueJS and add this framework into your skillset. T...
First off, what is a Tooltip? A tooltip is a form of popup UI that serves to give more information about a particular component of subject matter. You might see them around in some websites that prefer to use icon buttons to reduce mental load of the...
Introduction A very simple codepen has been created to illustrate pseudo-elements and pseudo-classes as shown below. Try interacting with the different buttons. https://codepen.io/lyqht/pen/qBjBxzP Some interactions that you should have observed: If...
Recently while I was browsing Instagram stories on my phone, a certain ad by Kopidate caught my eye. Despite having 'date' as part of its name, I thought it was interesting that they say it is not a matchmaking site but for humanising 1:1 connections...
As a #CodeNewbie, a common means of learning here is to: read articles to improve your knowledge, and later write your own to internalize your learning. However, I want to point it out explicitly that... Your learning style could be a reason why...
Background Last week, I saw an interesting thread discussion about how to reduce the Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) time that is caused by a component that takes a long time to load. In 2020, LCP was 1 of the 3 metrics of the Core Web Vitals declare...
I've given a Lunch & Learn session 🍚⏲️ at my company to talk about Atomic Design and how it is related to the React library. The responses were great, so I decided to transcribe the most important concepts covered in my talk into this article, and r...
This is the 2nd part of a tutorial series of 3 articles, and it assumes that you have read the previous article. If you have not, head over there now 🏃🏃🏃 In the last episode... We learnt how to inspect elements on the frontend in the previous epi...
Introduction This is the 1st part of a tutorial series of 3 articles. What's so special about this series? This series is intended for both non-dev and newbie dev peeps. What makes this guide stand out is that instead of just teaching you what are th...