Drew Town articles - 21 total
5 Tips For Asking Better Technical Questions And Getting Faster Answers
Read more of my articles on drewtown.dev or follow me on Twitter 🐤 After 12 years of working profess...
Display External User Avatars Using Strapi's Custom Routes as a Proxy
When using Strapi you may run across a scenario where you need to return data not stored in Strapi's...
Using Strapi Policies To Create Editable User Profiles
Strapi's roles & permissions plugin will get you a long way in registering, sign-in and managing...
Introducing Picke.rs - A Podcast Picks Explorer and Manager
Picke.rs was born out of an idea I had when listening to a few podcasts. That section at the end wher...
What do you like about Laravel?
I moved away from PHP frameworks years ago and missed the whole rise of the now very popular Laravel...
I wrote a Thank You Page and You Should Too
The number of personal blogs has skyrocketed in the last few years. Just a few years ago, Medium, Tum...
Writing Better Technical Documentation
Find this post and more like it on drewtown.dev or follow me on Twitter Writing technical documentat...
Explain Like I'm Five (ELI5) Vuex
A question that I see come up from new users to Vue is, “What is Vuex?” Or, “Can someone ELI5 (explai...
Favorite Git Interactive Tutorials or Videos?
I'm looking for some well done interactive git tutorials or video series for a co-worker. Does anyon...
Improve Blog Post SEO with Gridsome and Vue Meta
Gridsome generously includes Vue Meta which has become the de-facto standard for updating the <hea...
When To Use Vuex Getters In a Vue.js Project
If you enjoy this article please consider following me on Twitter or visiting my website. One of the...
Tailwindcss is My Favorite Coloring Book
I am, by nature, a tinkerer. When putting a design together rarely am I satisfied on my first attempt...
TailwindCSS and Vue - a Match Made In Heaven
In the days of CSS frameworks such as Bootstrap, Foundation, and Bulma the emphasis was always on com...
Optional Function Parameters With Default Values Via JavaScript's Object Spreading
See this article and many more like it on drewtown.dev or follow me on Twitter 🐤 More than likely at...
7 Ways to Clear Your Head When Facing a Programming Problem
What to do when you meet that un-fixable programming problem
Firefox 68.0 gets a color contrast accessibility checker
Firefox has landed an audit for contrast issues
Preferred notification method for blogging platforms?
RSS, Email, Twitter? What do you prefer?
The Magic of Vue's Dynamic Components For Lists of Data
How to use dynamic components to create lists with rich content
Finding the Right Purgecss Extractor
When using Tailwind with Vue's computed styles tweaking the extractor is required
Setting up Tailwind and Purgecss with Gridsome Without Using Any Plugins
Configuring Tailwind, the utilities based CSS library to work with Gridsome without any plugins
Setting up Gridsome with GitLab, NetlifyCMS and Netlify
The steps to get a static git-based blog up and running