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Level Up Your Dev Skills: 5 Free Tools You Didn't Know Existed

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  Level Up Your Dev Skills: 5 Free Tools You Didn't Know Existed Ever feel like you're stuck in a coding rut, using the same old tools for every project? The world of open-source software is brimming with hidden gems waiting to be discovered. Buckle up, coders, because we're diving into 5 projects that will transform your daily grind into a development dream! 1. Party Time for Your Code: Introducing Partytown Picture this: you're coding a killer app, but your manager throws a wrench in the works – a bunch of third-party scripts (Mixpanel, Intercom, Google Analytics, anyone?) that slow everything down. Enter Partytown , the open-source hero here to save the day. This library whisks those non-UI scripts away to a separate thread, freeing up your main thread for what it does best – making your app lightning-fast and responsive. Happy users, happy boss, happy coder – that's the Partytown effect! 2. Authentication Made Easy: Supercharge Your Login System with SuperToken...

Get to Know Bash ( 4 minutes read)

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 Get to know Bash in under 4 minutes Bash is a command language interpreter for interacting with a computer from the command line. It's also called a shell because it surrounds the operating system kernel to hide its intricate details while allowing you the programmer to do important stuff like access data and write files by typing simple commands. This was a revolutionary concept when it was developed in the early 70s back when programmers were still using punch cards. The shell concept evolved over the years with the Bourne shell being the most popular version that is until 1989 when the born-again shell or bash came about. When you open up the terminal on a Unix machine like macOS and most Linux distros, the default shell is usually bash.It provides a prompt where you can type a command which will then be interpreted by the shell and executed on the operating system. To find out if you';re running bash, type in which $ shell from the command line. It's like any other app...

Intro to Firebase ( 4 minute read )

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  Get to Know Firebase under 4 minutes Firebase, a suite of tools for building apps and managing infrastructure on top of Google Cloud Platform, was founded by James Tamplin and Andrew Lee in 2011 after they discovered that developers were using their chat software to manage non-chat application data. This inspired them to create a real-time database, a JSON database that automatically stays in sync with your front-end application. It was later expanded to support user authentication and website hosting to act as a complete backend as a service. In 2014, it was acquired by Google where it was further expanded with serverless computing via Cloud Functions, push notifications via Cloud Messaging, and other Google services like Analytics and AdMob. In order to serve a larger range of applications, Google introduced Firestore, a new document database, along with the acquisition of Fabric from Twitter in 2017. The most crucial thing to remember is that Firebase offers software developme...