Jan

25

PBS 89 of X — Currency Converter Challenge

Filed Under Computers & Tech, Software Development on January 25, 2020 | Leave a Comment

This post is part 89 of 92 in the series Programming by Stealth

This instalment is an experiment in more ways than one. The most obvious being that it is the first to be hosted entirely on GitHub, show notes and all!

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Feb

23

PBS 72 of X — HTML5 Templates

Filed Under Computers & Tech, Software Development on February 23, 2019 | 2 Comments

This post is part 72 of 92 in the series Programming by Stealth

Templating is a very important concept to get to grips with as you move from web pages to web apps. You need the ability to design some generic HTML and then easily inject data into it. Every UI popup has a standard form, but the information being displayed changes each time its invoked. Similarly, apps often use some kind of card interface to show a collection of similar items, those are basically the same piece of HTML being re-used with different data over and over again. Clearly, you want to be able to easily create a template for one card, and then re-use it over and over again.

I’ve been trying to find the perfect moment to insert this topic into the series, and it struck me that Bootstrap Toasts would make a simple but informative example around which to introduce the topic. So far we’ve been generating toasts by building them up piece-by-piece with jQuery, starting with a tag, setting the text, setting some attributes and properties, adding some classes, appending tags together, and so on. The code works, but it’s cumbersome to write, and worse still, difficult to debug and maintain. Hopefully you’ve been thinking to yourself ‘there must be a better way?’, because if you have been, you’ll be very well motivated to ingest this instalment!

You can download this instalment’s ZIP file here.

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