Christopher Wray articles - 42 total
Best UI Component Library for Desktop Keyboard support?
Hey web developers, I'm needing some help. What is the best UI element toolkit you have found for...
About Me- A Software Engineer & CEO- at Work.
I'm Chris. I'm a senior software engineer at a web agency I founded: Sol Company, and CEO &...
How to Create Multiple Wildcard Routes at the Same Root Path in Laravel.
Sometimes, you may want to make sure that multiple types of resources are available at a same root...
How to add Amazon affiliate and Google AdSense ads to your Vue app.
Sooner or later, if you are developing a content site, niche blog, or some other website that...
Show Your Work!
My wife got me this awesome book by Austin Kleon titled, "Show your Work!". The book is super easy to...
Tell me 1 reason why I should go with Ruby on Rails for my next Web App project.
Tell me 1 reason why I should go with Ruby on Rails for my next Web App project!
Going with dotnet for a new project. What’s your best advice?
For a new project I’m starting on in a couple months, I am planning to utilize .net. I would love t...
How personal should you go?
Recently, I remembered some extremely painful life events that have caused me to pretty much poop out...
Apple Mac OS or Microsoft Windows 10?
Trying to set up our business for future success. Things We're Looking For Ease of addi...
Google or Microsoft for email?
When I opened my business 3 years ago, I created a G Suite account and became quite fed up with the...
How would you structure an application like the Bible app "YouVersion" or an eReader?
I have been pondering on my mind a lot lately about how to build a reader application. Specifically,...
What do you think of the Serverless Framework?
This week, Ivan Ushmorov Web Developer, Ser...
I need some Lambda Function/ Netlify Function stuff.
What I am trying to do is invoke a function by sending a POST request directly to it then send the da...
What track should I choose? C# or Java?
In my Bachelors degree now trying to decide a track. Should I choose .net/C# or Spring/Java? Why?...
Why developers dislike "no code"?
Planning to write a blog about this topic, but before I do, I would like to hear your thoughts on "no...
Part 1: Today we got my wife's visa. Here's how being in Mexico 3 years has completely changed our lives for the better.
Almost three years ago, when my wife and I were entering the United States after getting married in M...
I don't have experience with Gatsby. Why am I building a Gatsby plugin then?
I don't have experience with Gatsby. The only experience I had had before with Gatbsy was going thro...
How did you get your first software developer job?
I would love to hear how you got your first developer job. What set you apart? Did you have a Bache...
Why I am glad I was rejected by my dream company... twice.
I don't know a single person on the planet that likes being rejected, and I am not an exception. Whe...
How to get organic traffic to your developer blog.
As a new developer, I don't feel like I have a lot to share. The reality is that I don't. Many ti...
How to remove the # symbol from your Vue Router website url.
If you are building a Vue app, you may quickly notice that your app has a # symbol in your URLs. Th...
How to Create a Sitemap in Laravel for a Website that Contains Thousands of Records.
In Laravel, if you want to build a sitemap, there are several packages built that can help you with s...
How to cross-publish posts from Strapi with Zapier
Well, you got your new CMS up and running. You are using Strapi, like me, but you are kind of lazy, l...
Triggering a deploy in Netlify automatically when updating content in Strapi.
I still need to write an article about hosting my portfolio. It is hosted for free. That article is c...
Building a Honeypot Field in Nuxt
I will end up using Netlify Forms for my website because my backend is hosted on Heroku, and each tim...
Building a Contact Form in Nuxt + Strapi: Backend
Now that we built the ContactForm Component in Vue + Nuxt, we need to make sure that there is an API...
Building a Contact Form in Nuxt and Strapi: Frontend
Woohoo! I released my portfolio! You can check it out here. I will keep writing about the things I...
Refactoring Vue Templates in Nuxt
Well, as soon as we start updating HTML in multiple places, it is time to start refactoring. In orde...
Refactoring API Calls in Nuxt
Today when I wanted to build out the head attributes in Nuxt, I realized that when using asyncData()...