Friday Tips

Weekly video tips to close out the work week. Short enough to watch before your Friday afternoon drink.

Friday TipSeptember 3, 2021
Creating multiscreen apps with the Presentation API | Friday Tips 12In this thirteenth episode of Friday Tips: Dave Bitter, front-end developer at Frontmen (becoming iO), shows you how to create multiscreen apps with the Presentation API.
Friday TipAugust 27, 2021
A first look at the Shape Detection API | Friday Tips 11In this twelfth episode of Friday Tips: Dave Bitter, front-end developer at Frontmen (becoming iO), shows you how to use the Shape Detection API to detect faces, barcodes and text in images.
Friday TipAugust 20, 2021
Automate common code review chores with DangerJS | Friday Tips 10In this eleventh episode of Friday Tips: Dave Bitter, front-end developer at Frontmen (becoming iO), shows you how to use DangerJS to automate common code review chores.
Friday TipAugust 13, 2021
Visual regression testing with Chromatic for Storybook | Friday Tips 9In this tenth episode of Friday Tips: Dave Bitter, front-end developer at Frontmen (becoming iO), shows you how to use Chromatic for Storybook to create visual regression tests and more.
Friday TipAugust 6, 2021
CodeTour Visual Studio Code extension | Friday Tips 8In this ninth episode of Friday Tips: Dave Bitter, front-end developer at Frontmen (becoming iO), shows you how to use the Visual Studio Code extension CodeTour to create interactive tours through your project.
Friday TipJuly 30, 2021
Just use the native Intl API for formatting dates, number and currencies | Friday Tips 7In this eighth episode of Friday Tips: Dave Bitter, front-end developer at Frontmen (becoming iO), shows you how to use the native Intl API in the browser to format dates, numbers and currencies.
Friday TipJuly 23, 2021
Scaffolding with PlopJS | Friday Tips 6In this seventh episode of Friday Tips: Dave Bitter, front-end developer at Frontmen (becoming iO), shows you how to automate the scaffolding of new components in your project with PlopJS.
Friday TipJuly 16, 2021
Update your GitHub README with GitHub actions | Friday Tips 5In this sixth episode of Friday Tips: Dave Bitter, front-end developer at Frontmen (becoming iO), shows you how you can use GitHub actions to automate workflows.
Friday TipJuly 9, 2021
Short introduction to React Query | Friday Tips 4In this fifth episode of Friday Tips: Dave Bitter, front-end developer at Frontmen (becoming iO), shows you how you can use React Query for all your data fetching, caching, synchronizing and updating needs.
Friday TipJuly 2, 2021
Quickly start new projects with GitHub template repositories | Friday Tips 3In this fourth episode of Friday Tips: Dave Bitter, front-end developer at Frontmen (becoming iO), shows you how you can use GitHub template repositories to quickly start new projects based on a boilerplate.
Friday TipJune 25, 2021
Retrieve billing info with the Payment Request API | Friday Tips 2In this third episode of Friday Tips: Dave Bitter, front-end developer at Frontmen (becoming iO), shows you how you can retrieve billing information from a user by using the Payment Request API.
Friday TipJune 18, 2021
Quokka.js Visual Studio Code extension | Friday Tips 1In this second episode of Friday Tips: Dave Bitter, front-end developer at Frontmen (becoming iO), shows you how to you can use the Visual Studio Code extension Quokka.js to display runtime values next to your code.
Friday TipJune 11, 2021
How to create a GitHub profile README | Friday Tips 0In this first episode of Friday Tips: Dave Bitter, front-end developer at Frontmen (becoming iO), shows you how to create a GitHub Profile README to give personality to your GitHub profile.