James is a JS Developer, Keynote Speaker, and Content Creator whose passion for teaching has impacted hundreds of thousands of developers across the world.
A few years ago, I created my most popular YouTube video of all time about moving away from Postman instead of an extension in VS Code. I wanted to test APIs from inside of VS Code, but Postman didn't yet have an extension. After a few years, things ...
Video courses have been an absolute game changer for my career as a web developer. In fact, I wouldn't even be doing web development today if it wasn't for one very specific course that I took early on when I was first learning to code. So, here are ...
Top 5 Utility Apps to Boost Your Developer Efficiency Utility apps and shortcuts are what make me a 10x developer. Well, maybe not a 10x developer, but they definitely make me more productive. Anyways, here are 5 utility apps I use every single day. ...
Attention developers 👀 Don't make these mistakes when choosing your next role! In this article, we'll discuss common regrets you might encounter in your job and how to prevent them. 1. Lack of Mentorship and Support One of the most common regrets be...
In this tutorial, we’re going to build a PokeMatch game with vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The Pokemon API is free and fun to work with, so let’s get started. This is an abridged version of the tutorial. Watch the full tutorial on YouTube. You ...
Let’s build a link shortener app like bit.ly using SvelteKit, TypeScript, and Directus.io as our Headless CMS. This article is a shortened form of the full tutorial. For more details, watch the full YouTube video. Note that the video uses a previous...
Callbacks are an essential part of understanding JavaScript especially when dealing with asynchronous code. Let's cover the basics of callbacks in about 5 minutes with a handful of examples! https://youtu.be/kz_vwAF4NHI What Are Callback Functions? O...
VS Code is amazing, but it's pretty boring looking by default. The good news is that it only takes a few minutes to start to customize it and make it look much more fun! In this article, I'm going to show you how to install and setup my favorite FREE...
Did you know you can test your API endpoints right inside of VS Code? I recently discovered a BRAND NEW VS Code extension for for doing just that from RapidAPI. Let's see how to use it and a few of it's best features! Installing the Extension Open th...
