Friday, April 13, 2018
Predictive Analytics: How Marketers Can Improve Future Activities
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The Visual Project Management Tool Built for Designers
This article was created in partnership with Monday.com. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible.
Do you feel like you're not making the best use out of your skills, money and effort while at work? Perhaps you're spending too much time on repetitive tasks like entering data into multiple systems or manually exchanging documents between members of your team. Fortunately, technology can help you get back control over your projects and do more with your day.
Team management is one of the core foundations of any successful business or freelance endeavor. In fact, it's safe to say that the ability to communicate clearly and transparently is one of the strongest leadership skills of all. However, without the right technology on your side, it will be much harder to build and maintain a healthy, teamwork-orientated environment.
Monday.com aims to change all that. A team management tool with a unique visual flair, it's suitable for teams of any size from two freelancers working together to teams of thousands scattered across the globe. Whether you're a freelance or you're running a startup or a Fortune 500 company, monday.com aims to empower users through powerful cloud-based collaboration, integrated communication tools and centralized control over project management.
## Empower a Global Workforce with Enhanced Mobility
The increasing ubiquity of the internet and mobile devices like smartphones and tablets have led to dramatic changes in the way people work. No longer restricted by the boundaries of the office desk, workers can now complete projects at home or get a head start on the day's work during the commute.
Monday.com is built with the modern workforce in mind. That's why it allows you to manage everything through a single, centralized system where project leaders can assign tasks to specific people and view project statuses in real time. It's the ultimate to-do list, project overview and task-management solution all wrapped into one. No longer is there any need to get bogged down in spreadsheets, whiteboards and an ever-expanding mountain of sticky notes.
With Monday.com, it doesn't matter where your team members are or what sort of devices they're using. You'll be able to keep them in the loop no matter what, thanks to the availability of apps for Android and iOS-powered smartphones and tablets.
That means much less time spent sending emails, organizing meetings and scheduling phone calls.
## Boost Productivity with Powerful Visual Tools
There's no doubt about it – technology is often complicated, and choosing the wrong software can make you less efficient than you were before. There's also the fact that modern businesses generate a whole lot of data during their routine tasks, project management included. It's the ability to make sense of all this data that lets you truly realize the maximum potential of your business.
Monday.com takes a visual approach to team management. With its intuitive design and striking visuals, you'll never have to worry about missing an important deadline again. Furthermore, its built-in collaborative tools help you communicate with your team in context by adding extra rows to boards and sending automatic alerts in real time. There's no training needed either – the interface is immediately recognizable thanks to its self-explanatory controls and practically non-existent learning curve.
## Manage Your Project Information with an Agile Approach
For decades, spreadsheets were the gold standard in team or project management. After all, there's a reason why Microsoft Excel remains one of the most popular tools in the workplace. But, did you know that almost 90% of corporate spreadsheets contain errors? That greatly increases a domino effect leading to serious problems with the project being managed. There's also the fact that efficient team management relies on much more than just spreadsheets – there'll be other things too, like documents, videos, photos, illustrations and even printed content that needs to be scanned in.
Now, imagine consolidating everything together under a single platform, reinforced by a unified search system that allows you to quickly browse through every project your team has ever worked on. With monday.com, your business portfolio becomes a full-fledged knowledgebase completes with searchable insights into past and current projects. By having such a system in place, you'll be able to set your business up for continuous improvement, and that's exactly how the modern, agile way to do things works!
Are you ready to streamline your projects with a team management tool that you can depend on? Visit Monday.com today to start simplifying the way your team works.
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Build a Basic CRUD App with Vue.js and Node
This article was originally published on the Okta developer blog. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible.
I’ve danced the JavaScript framework shuffle for years starting with jQuery, then on to Angular. After being frustrated with Angular’s complexity, I found React and thought I was in the clear. What seemed simple on the surface ended up being a frustrating mess. Then I found Vue.js. It just felt right. It worked as expected. It was fast. The documentation was incredible. Templating was eloquent. There was a unanimous consensus around how to handle state management, conditional rendering, two-way binding, routing, and more.
This tutorial will take you step by step through scaffolding a Vue.js project, offloading secure authentication to Okta’s OpenID Connect API (OIDC), locking down protected routes, and performing CRUD operations through a backend REST API server. This tutorial uses the following technologies but doesn’t require intimate knowledge to follow along:
- Vue.js with vue-cli, vue-router, and Okta Vue SDK
- Node with Express, Okta JWT Verifier, Sequelize, and Epilogue
About Vue.js
Vue.js is a robust but simple Javascript framework. It has one of the lowest barriers to entry of any modern framework while providing all the required features for high performance web applications.
This tutorial covers two primary builds, a frontend web app and backend REST API server. The frontend will be a single page application (SPA) with a homepage, login and logout, and a posts manager.
Okta’s OpenID Connect (OIDC) will handle our web app’s authentication through the use of Okta’s Vue SDK. If an unauthenticated user navigates to the posts manager, the web app should attempt to authenticate the user.
The server will run Express with Sequelize and Epilogue. At a high level, with Sequelize and Epilogue you can quickly generate dynamic REST endpoints with just a few lines of code.
You will use JWT-based authentication when making requests from the web app and Okta’s JWT Verifier in an Express middleware to validate the token. Your app will expose the following endpoints which all require requests to have a valid access token.
- GET /posts
- GET /posts/:id
- POST /posts
- PUT /posts/:id
- DELETE /posts/:id
Create Your Vue.js App
To get your project off the ground quickly you can leverage the scaffolding functionality from vue-cli. For this tutorial, you are going to use the progressive web app (PWA) template that includes a handful of features including webpack, hot reloading, CSS extraction, and unit testing.
If you’re not familiar with the tenets of PWA, check out our ultimate guide to progressive web applications.
To install vue-cli run:
npm install -g vue-cli
Next, you need to initialize your project. When you run the vue init command just accept all the default values.
vue init pwa my-vue-app
cd ./my-vue-app
npm install
npm run dev
Point your favorite browser to http://localhost:8080 and you should see the fruits of your labor:
Extra Credit: Check out the other templates available for vue-cli.
Install Bootstrap
Let’s install bootstrap-vue so you can take advantage of the various premade components (plus you can keep the focus on functionality and not on custom CSS):
npm i --save bootstrap-vue bootstrap
To complete the installation, modify ./src/main.js to include bootstrap-vue and import the required CSS files. Your ./src/main.js file should look like this:
// The Vue build version to load with the `import` command
// (runtime-only or standalone) has been set in webpack.base.conf with an alias.
import Vue from 'vue'
import App from './App'
import router from './router'
import BootstrapVue from 'bootstrap-vue'
import 'bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css'
import 'bootstrap-vue/dist/bootstrap-vue.css'
Vue.use(BootstrapVue)
Vue.config.productionTip = false
/* eslint-disable no-new */
new Vue({
el: '#app',
router,
template: '<App/>',
components: { App }
})
Add Authentication with Okta
Dealing with authentication in a web app is the bane of every developer’s existence. That’s where Okta comes in to secure your web applications with minimal code. To get started, you will need to create an OIDC application in Okta. Sign up for a forever-free developer account (or log in if you already have one).
Once logged in, create a new application by clicking “Add Application”.
Select the “Single-Page App” platform option.
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