Written for Competa IT by Mandy van Zetten. What is Formly? For starters, Formly is a library for Angular that allows you to make forms in a super simple way! We will install Formly and take you through the first steps. Getting started Before we start installing Formly, we have to make…

Written for Competa IT by Mandy van Zetten. Working with Excel can be annoying, that’s why I made a cheat sheet with all of the useful commands and functions that will help you get started, without all the clutter of useless chatter around it! General shortcuts Let’s start with the easy general…

How to deploy a NextJS application in the standalone way — Written for Competa IT by Fernando van Loenhout. The standalone deployment is a new way of deploying NextJS applications in NextJS 12.2. This mode gives a few advantages of older deployment methods, namely that it has a reduced size node_modules folder and it splits up the static files from the…

From the Competa IT archive; first published on 29–12–2017 by Danny Cornelisse. What is a recursion? A recursion is the mathematical principle where a ‘thing’ or a value is dependent on itself. A famous example is the fibonacci sequence: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144 Do you…

From the Competa IT archive; first published on 05–01–2018 by Maria Cristina di Termine. Lodash is a very useful JavaScript toolkit that helps us to write and maintain our code clean and easy to read. Beside that, it also save us time and improves the performance of our applications. Lodash…

From the Competa IT archive; first published on 10–12–2017 by Raymon. The time has come that we don’t have to fiddle around with Floats and Tables anymore! Flexbox is already an established term in the industry of Frontend Developers. But there is a new thing called “CSS Grid Layout”! Well…

From the Competa IT archive; first published on 21–12–2017 by Nick Duijndam. When I started using Laravel, I loved how easy it was to resolve relationships, but I always kept forgetting which methods I should use for which relationship. So in this blog post I’d like to put together a…

From the Competa IT archive; first published on 21–12–2017 by Raymon. Well, I can make a very long description about how to check if an object is empty, but this could be very short! function isEmptyObject(objectInput) { for ( name in objectInput) { return false; } return true; } Simply, if the for-in loop is finding any property, it will start to iterate over the first property, but after this it will return false. But when it won’t loop it directly returns true.

From the Competa IT archive; first published on 31–01–2018 by Maria Cristina di Termine. This blog post follows the first part about RegExp. Please, read the first part to understand this second part better. Methods and properties Once the instance of a regular expression in JavaScript is created, we can take advantage of…