Yup, I am. Last year, I posted a lot about how I was building a state parks app to help with my goal of eventually visiting every park in the Wisconsin State Parks system. The most recent post was around November, though. Well, I am working on the app again and I am hoping to …
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Today, we are going to look at three ways to add a modal dialog to your app. The first option just uses CSS and JavaScript (no special libraries). The second option uses Bootstrap (a topic that I haven’t touched in a few years). The third and final option uses Bulma. I looked back at my …
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Previously, we have covered how to identify where the user is, based upon navigator.geolocation and based upon their IP address (there are definitely ways to make IP-based geolocation suck less). I figured that in today’s post, we would look at how to go from an arbitrary physical location (zip code or city name) to latitude …
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There are times when it is very important to know as much as you can about the user of your application. A good example is how I need to know where the user physically is in order to calculate the distance between them and the park in the state parks app. Another example is if …
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Last week, I wrote about creating a cloudflare worker. When I created that worker, I knew that I wanted to leverage that for the state parks app. This week, I created three new workers: one to get the user’s location, one to get the list of parks, and one to get an individual park. Let’s …
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Back in July, we looked at how Vue CLI and webpack work and I figured that it was time to look at Vue Router, as a follow-up. Vue Router is going to be pretty necessary for the state parks app, moving forward. Like I did last time, I used VueCLI and Bulma. I also put …
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This is going to be a pretty quick post (mainly because I am on vacation, next week). I was skimming through what is new in ECMAScript 2021 and spotted replaceAll(). It is already supported in everything except for Internet Explorer. Let’s take a look at a quick example. See the Pen String.prototype.replaceAll() Example by Joe …
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At work, I use webpack all the time but it is with laravel. On this blog, I haven’t written much about laravel (something that I eventually want to correct). I do want to address the deficit of webpack content today, though.
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One of the things that are most important to me for phase 1 of the state parks app is to have the list of parks be sorted by how far the user is from the park. After all, Tower Hill State Park might be interesting but if you live 4 hours away, you aren’t likely …
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Lazy loading is a method for optimizing a website by loading images (or iframes) on demand. If properly implemented, the browser should load the images that are at the top of the page first and wait to load the rest until the user starts to scroll down the page. This is something that is relatively …
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