Posts tagged with guide

Get an overview of the best React component libraries looking at several factors like popularity, use cases, documentation, resources, support, and more.

A lot of databases start off as a spreadsheet. And if that’s indeed true for you, there’s a good chance you’re thinking about migrating some data from Google Sheets over to a real database like PostgreSQL. There’s no shortage of posts out there about how to upload spreadsheets to relational databases; so this one is going to go a bit deeper. We’ll ...

This guide aims to share everything you need to know about Vue components, and includes in-depth examples of class components, dynamic components, single file components, functional components, and table components.

Lazy loading is an optimization technique where the loading of an item is delayed until it’s absolutely required. It works well for common UX components and patterns like dialogs, warnings, and notifications. Learn how to build and use lazily-loaded components in React.

Learn more about the React component lifecycle and the different methods within each phase (for class-based components), focusing particularly on methods and hooks.

Here is our roundup of React native component libraries—both general and special purpose ones—with most important characteristics and helpful links.

How did software that most developers at startups have never used get this big? Understanding Oracle starts with understanding the history of relational databases, and digging into their business and competitive practices.

This post walks through the best GUIs available for querying your Postgres data, as well as remotely accessing and navigating database servers.

Drafting, reviewing, tracking, signing, and storing business documents is essential—and can be painful, especially if you are still in the pen and paper era. Revv, a complete document management system, specializes in migrating from paper documents, converting word docs, excel sheets, and PDFs to digital documents. Revv also enables you to digitiz...

Low code and no code have equal amounts of hype and skepticism. On the one hand, it’s clear low code has market traction: in April 2021, a provider of low code automation software, IPO’d at $31 billion. And Gartner predicts that by 2024, more than 65% of application development activity will come from low code application development platforms. O...

An inside look at why and how we built a custom app for account managers to generate user license keys, manage trials, map account data with Salesforce, and manage feature flags.

We’ve researched and compared React autocomplete libraries to suss out the best React autocomplete library, and then created this simple guide to aggregate all the top options in one place.

The debate between on-premise vs cloud is nothing new. We've collected deeper context and frameworks to make evaluating your options easier.

We researched and tried a handful of popular React-Native date picker libraries. In this post, we’ll walk you through our favorites and the reasoning behind each selection.

There are a few off the shelf options for building admin interfaces: 1. Database GUI Clients 2. Frontend admin libraries 3. Backend admin frameworks 4. 3rd-party admin tools They’re all good at specific things. Let’s see how you can decide between them:

We researched, identified, and evaluated, checkbox components to help you make the right choice to solve common use cases.

Our experts reveal that, especially with low-code platforms, your internal tool development should be context-dependent and should, at different times, include built and bought components.

This is a behind-the-scenes look at how we built the process to offer startup credits and then automated it all with Retool.

This tutorial walks through how to build a basic file uploader and viewer app in under an hour using Retool and the DigitalOcean Spaces API.

In this guide, we’ll take you through the reasoning behind our favorite map libraries by comparing react-native-maps to the other top libraries.

There are a number of React Native notification libraries to choose from, and this post will spotlight one of the leading options: react-native-push-notification.

We’re going to build a customer dashboard that lets you see orders and products in one view using the Shopify GraphQL API in Retool.

This post will run through how you can effectively work with dates in SQL so you can resolve your issue quickly and get back to bed.

You may have read the title for this post and thought, "Why on earth does a developer need to know anything about typography?" I mean, there’s already a lot on your plate and you’re making hundreds of decisions a day. Should you use React or Vue? npm or Yarn? ES6 or ES7? Sadly, this often leaves something like type as an afterthought. But, let’s re...