Gavin Sykes articles - 14 total
For loops in MySQL...kind of
Hi everyone, sorry it's been a while! I had a bit of a breakthrough today, finally achieving (or at...
Build a Modern API with Slim 4 - Verify your .env file
Welcome back to this series, it was put on hold some time ago, but I'm now back and ready to go! In...
Self-referencing types and generics: what are they and how can I use them in React?
Hi everyone! So I have this React app that I am currently building, and I have a parent component...
React Custom Hooks that can take props, but not always, what to do in TypeScript?
Hi everyone, a bit of a shorter article today, but I recently ran into the question of what to do in...
Build a Modern API with Slim 4 - Add your First Route
Now that we have our application up and running, we need to make it actually look our for calls on...
Build a Modern API with Slim 4 - Create your Index File
Now that we have everything set up we can actually start creating our index file which will handle...
Build a modern API with Slim 4 - Generate your keys
By the end of this piece we will have 3 files in our keys folder: - keys - encryption_key -...
Build a modern API with Slim 4 - Set up your filesystem
By now you should have a folder structure that looks a bit like the below: -...
Build a Modern API with Slim 4 - Set up your .env file
In the last post you may have spotted mention of a .env file. What is it? What does it do? Where does...
Build a Modern API with Slim 4 - Introduction
Gretings! I have decided to put together this series on how to create a modern API based on Slim's...
Creating a setter function in JavaScript Objects
As part of one of my projects I have had a central object called "layout" with it being to do with ma...
Adding a night mode to your web app in pure CSS and JavaScript
Adding a night-mode to your web pages is something that is ever-increasing in popularity, and, like e...
Randomising Flex Order of Items
This all stems from a random conversation this week, where a colleague was fiddling with the layout o...
Appending a Child to an SVG using Pure Javascript
Why write a blog post about this, Gavin? Well it turns out that appending a child to an SVG, or withi...