Refactor me if you dare

 I am currently developing a very simple app which offers you the possibility to create question-answer flipping cards, creating thus some kind of funny Trivia to practice on any topic you want to apply it to. As a user, you create first the question-aswear entities which also include  category field, and then you can practice them in the playground area, which shows you the question on a hoverable flipping card. It also offers you a textearea which disables 60 seconds after you start typing on it, so that you can write down your answer before actually flipping the card and getting to see the correct one.  In this app, though simple, I wanted to keep a client-web service architecture from the very beginning. The web client contains the views and communicates with the API, which contains the data through Ajax calls. This was working consistently so far. An example of the creation and saving of new question-answer items is: When I press on "Create new question" button, I am...

Team Work The Pull Request This is used in order to contribute to projects when you don’t own them and, therefore, lack the necessary permissiones to push your commits and contribute to the project. Or in other words,  it's a request from the owner of a repository fork to the owner of said repository to incoporate all commits included in said fork into the repository.  Real life case I discover a bug in a repository I don’t own. I want to modify it but, as I don’t own it, I will need to follow a series of steps in order to suggest that change:     1. Fork the repository in order to have it in my remote (this will clone the repository into my remote)     2. Clone repository to my local     3. Make relevant changes      4. Commit     5. Push (this will push changes from my local repository to my remote repository for which I have the necessary permissions)     6. Pull request will tell the owner of the repository t...

 

Probably if you are into Front End you have come accross this acronym before, but what does it stand for? It is probably one of the funniest acronyms I've ever found withing web development: "Sintactically Awesome Style Sheet" .  Enough with jokes, let's talk about what it really is: an extension of Css which simplifies style sheets syntax to allow you to write cleaner, more understandable, easy to modify or adjust Css.  First of all, there's two ways of writing Sass: SCSS (Sassy CSS):   .scss extension files written with css syntax. Indented:  .sass extension files which replace brackets with indentation. It is not fully compliant with CSS but it's quicker.   Basically, once you set up your project to use Sass, a .css file will be created together with a .scss. Whatever you write in your Sass file will be translated into the .css file. What is the main advantage of this? .scss files are easier to read thanks to the use of some features, therefore they are fas...