Snapchat Clones Are Taking The Lead

When Snapchat was launched, it also provided a platform to its competitor to imitate them and give them a competition in the market. Being the strong candidate, Facebook launched 3 different clones of Snapchat’s popular Stories feature to Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp. The numbers have revealed...

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Bootstrap: Super Smart Features to Win You Over

The first stable release of Bootstrap 4 is here. And it's pretty cool. This article looks at some of its best features.

It was on 19th August, 2015, that Bootstrap 4 alpha was finally out. This was after months of anticipation, anxious tweets asking for the disclosure of a release date, and a few scattered scraps of news by Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton, having the effect of intensifying rather than quenching our curiosity. More than two years later, the wait for the first stable release is finally over.

As a designer, I love crafting my own CSS. However, I confess that I find Bootstrap a well thought out and strongly supported front-end framework that I’ve immensely enjoyed using — both for building my projects and for learning more about writing better, modular CSS.

As soon as news of the latest release was out, I downloaded the source files for Bootstrap 4 and spent some time going back and forth between reading the docs and digging into the code to find out more.

Here are the latest Bootstrap features I like the most. I hope you find them awesome too!

#1 New Interactive Documentation

The Bootstrap documentation has been exemplary since the framework’s early days. It’s always had the crucial role of being a living document — that is, a tool in sync with the collaborative effort of building the framework and communicating it to others:

Abstracting and documenting components became part of our process for building this one tool and Bootstrap in tandem. — Mark Otto in 2012

Mark himself is quite a fan of great documentation. His Code Guide by @mdo is evidence of his attitude that high-quality documentation is part and parcel of writing high-quality code.

The documentation for version 4 has been rewritten from scratch using Markdown, and its appearance has been revamped with a new layout, color palette, and the use of system fonts.

The Bootstrap docs:

• are a pleasure to navigate, both using the traditional sidebar navigation and the brand new search form
• structure information in a logical manner; content is never overwhelming or confusing
• include instructions and how-tos covering all areas of the framework, from different ways of installing Bootstrap to using each component and dealing with browser quirks.

Finally, if you’d like to run the Bootstrap docs locally on your computer, follow these instructions.

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Want to Tell Your Boss You Quit? These Freelance Skills are in Hot Demand

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The Everything Bubble Is Ready to Pop - #infographic

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Turning Point: The Journey, Episode 16

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Creating Your First Angular App: Components, Part 2

In the third tutorial of the series, you learned how to create the HomeComponent of your country information app. We will create two more components in this tutorial. One of the components will list all the countries that we have stored in the COUNTRIES array. Another component will display the details of any country selected by the user.

Creating the AllCountriesComponent

The HomeComponent that we created in the previous tutorial and the AllCountriesComponent that we will create in this section are very similar. The only difference is that instead of sorting the COUNTRIES array and slicing it to only get the first three countries, we will be listing all of them at once. Inside the console, move to your project directory and run the following command:

ng generate component all-countries

This will create a folder named all-countries inside the src/app directory of your Angular app. The folder will have three different files named all-countries.component.ts, all-countries.component.html, and all-countries.component.css. The component logic like getting the list of countries and initializing the component itself will go inside the .ts file. The .html file will store the template for the component, and the .css file will store different CSS rules to style the template.

Here is the code for the all-countries.component.ts file:

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';

import { Country } from '../country';
import { CountryService } from '../country.service';

@Component({
    selector: 'app-all-countries',
    templateUrl: './all-countries.component.html',
    styleUrls: ['./all-countries.component.css']
})
export class AllCountriesComponent implements OnInit {
    countries: Country[];

    constructor(private countryService: CountryService) { }

    ngOnInit() {
        this.getCountries();
    }

    getCountries(): void {
        this.countries = this.countryService.getCountries();
    }
}

As you can see, the code is pretty basic. We import the Country and CountryService classes that we created in the second tutorial of the series. The component decorator is used to specify the selector that we will be using to identify the AllCountriesComponent.

Inside the class definition, we create a countries property that accepts an array of Country objects as its value. The CountryService class is added to the component using dependency injection. We call the getCountries() method of this class upon initialization. The getCountries() method itself relies on getCountries() from the CountryService class, which returns an array of Country objects.

The all-countries.component.html file will store the template for our component.

<div class="container">
  <h2>List of All the Countries in Our Database</h2>
      <a *ngFor="let country of countries"
      class="country-unit" routerLink="/detail/">
        <div class="country-block">
          <h4></h4>
          <p>Capital <br> ()</p>
        </div>
      </a>
</div>

Just like the template for HomeComponent, we are using *ngFor to list all the countries obtained by the getCountries() method and stored in the countries property of the AllCountriesComponent class. We use this component to display the capitals of different countries using the capital property. You will learn about the routerLink directive used with the a tag in the next tutorial.

The CSS used is the same as that of the home.component.css file. The only difference is that we change the background color for each country block to green. Here is the complete CSS code:

a {
  text-decoration: none;
}

*,
*:after,
*:before {
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

body {
  font-family: 'Lato';
}

h2, h3, h4, p {
  font-family: 'Lato';
  margin: 10px;
}

.country-block p {
  margin-top: 0;
  margin-bottom: 0;
}

.country-block h4 {
  margin-bottom: 10px;
}

h4 {
  position: relative;
  font-size: 1.25rem;
}
.container {
  margin: 0 50px;
  text-align: center;
}

.country-unit {
    width: 200px;
    display: inline-block;
    margin: 10px;
}

br {
  clear: both;
}

.country-block {
    padding: 30px 0;
    text-align: center;
    color: white;
    height: 150px;
    background-color: #4CAF50;
    border-radius: 2px;
}

.country-block:hover {
  background-color: #FF5722;
  cursor: pointer;
  color:white;
}

Creating the CountryDetailComponent

The CountryDetailComponent will be the third and final component of our Angular app. Whenever users click on the name of any country listed inside either the HomeComponent or AllCountriesComponent, they will be taken to the CountryDetailComponent.

Go back to the console and run the following command:

ng generate component country-detail

This will create a folder named country-detail inside the src/app directory of your app. You should see four different files inside the folder. Three of those files will be named: country-detail.component.ts, country-detail.component.html, and country-detail.component.css. Just like the earlier components, country-detail.component.ts will contain the logic of our component, and country-detail.component.html will contain the template to render it.

Here is the code for the country-detail.component.ts file:

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { ActivatedRoute } from '@angular/router';
import { Location } from '@angular/common';

import { Country } from '../country';
import { CountryService } from '../country.service';

@Component({
    selector: 'app-country-detail',
    templateUrl: './country-detail.component.html',
    styleUrls: ['./country-detail.component.css']
})
export class CountryDetailComponent implements OnInit {
    country: Country;

    constructor(
        private route: ActivatedRoute,
        private countryService: CountryService,
        private location: Location
    ) { }

    ngOnInit(): void {
        this.getCountry();
    }

    getCountry(): void {
        const name: string = this.route.snapshot.paramMap.get('name');
        this.country = this.countryService.getCountry(name);
    }

    goBack(): void {
        this.location.back();
    }
}

This time, we have also imported ActivatedRoute and Location, along with Component and OnInit. We use ActivatedRoute to access information about a route associated with a component loaded in an outlet. We use Location to enable our application to interact with the browser's URL.

Inside the class definition, we create a property named country which accepts a Country object as its value. Unlike HomeComponent and AllCountriesComponent, the CountryDetailComponent class has to show details of only one country at a time.

The getCountry() method extracts the name parameter from the route snapshot and uses the value to find a country with the given name inside the COUNTRIES array. The goBack() method takes the user back to the previous page with the help of the back() method from the Location class.

Here is the code for the country-detail.component.html file:

<div class="container">
  <div *ngIf="country">
    <h2></h2>
    <p>
      <span>Capital: </span></p>
    <p>
      <span>Area: </span> km
      <sup>2</sup>
    </p>
    <p>
      <span>Population: </span></p>
    <p>
      <span>GDP: </span> USD</p>
    <p>
      <span>Currency: </span></p>
    <button (click)="goBack()">Go Back</button>
  </div>
</div>

The template code inside the div with *ngIf="country" is rendered only if country has been set to a value. We are using Angular pipes to capitalize the name of the country and properly format the area and population of the countries. We are binding the click event of our Go Back button to the goBack() method of our component so that whenever users click on a button, they are taken back to the previous page.

Here is the CSS that will go inside the country-detail.component.css file:

.container {
  margin: 0 auto;
  width: 380px;
}

h2, p {
  font-family: 'Lato';
}

p {
  font-size: 1.25rem;
}

p span {
  color: #4CAF50;
  border-radius: 5px;
  width: 200px;
  display: inline-block;
}

label {
  display: inline-block;
  width: 3em;
  margin: .5em 0;
  color: #607D8B;
  font-weight: bold;
  font-family: 'Lato';
}

button {
  margin-top: 20px;
  font-family: Arial;
  background-color: #F44336;
  border: none;
  padding: 5px 10px;
  border-radius: 20px;
  cursor: pointer;
  outline: none;
  color: white;
  font-family: 'Lato';
}

Final Thoughts

With the completion of this tutorial, we have added two more components to our first Angular app. The AllCountriesComponent was very similar to the HomeComponent as they both rendered a list of countries stored in the COUNTRIES array. The CountryDetailComponent was different because it extracted information about a single country from the COUNTRIES array based on its name. 

After creating three different components, you should now have a basic understanding of the interactions between .ts, .html, and .css files to create a fully functioning component.

In the next tutorial of the series, you will learn how to use all these components together and make some final changes so that the app can run without any errors.

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