Articles about: Web development

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What are the principles of a database?
What are the principles of a database?

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Level: Confirmed beginner

Come on, it's that time of year again, and like all developers you've had a thousand new ideas during your vacations (but don't pretend you haven't). So let's talk about the most crucial point when you're at the idea stage and about to design your incredible mega-start-up project: the database. Almost everything you use on the Internet today is linked to a database. As its name suggests, its role is to store a wide variety of data in order to carry out the actions of a website or application...

Josselin Dionisi - Freelance developer
Josselin Dionisi
Aug 29, 2022
How to auto-host Google Fonts in 2025?
How to auto-host Google Fonts in 2025?

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Level: Confirmed beginner

Hello good morning 🙂, Ah, you're still on vacation? I'll come back later with my article, then? No, it's okay? Can we go now? Top! 😁 Today, we're going to talk about Google Fonts, more specifically: how to "self-host" them ? Let's turn on the fan, warm up our fingers and get started! What are Google Fonts? Google Fonts are a set of fonts created by Google. What's special about these fonts is that they're designed for screens, especially the web. On this site I don't us...

Ludovic Frank - Freelance developer
Ludovic Frank
Aug 20, 2022
How much does a web developer cost in 2025?
How much does a web developer cost in 2025?

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Level: Beginner

Hello ?, Just as everyone in the world understands why one car can cost up to 50 times more than another, in the web world there's sometimes a lack of understanding of prices, especially since the advent of certain advertisements promising to get everything for nothing. In this article, I'll try to guide you and give you some real figures on pricing in the web and development field. In the first part, we'll cover the basics, and in the second, we'll take a look at some very concrete cases....

Ludovic Frank - Freelance developer
Ludovic Frank
Jun 6, 2022
How do I use Stimulus with iintl-tel-input?
How do I use Stimulus with iintl-tel-input?

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Level: Beginner

When I was writing an application using Stimulus and needed to use intl-tel-input, I came across this "Github issue". What's going on between Stimulus and intl-tel-input? In fact, to work, intl-tel-input clones the base element, so if you link this base element to a Stimulus controller, and it's this controller that instantiates intl-tel-input, you'll need to use intl-tel-input.If you link this base element to a Stimulus controller, and it's this controller that instantiates intl-tel-inpu...

Ludovic Frank - Freelance developer
Ludovic Frank
May 19, 2022
Why do I love being a Symfony developer?
Why do I love being a Symfony developer?

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Level: Confirmed beginner

Hello there, Like every week, we're getting together for a little article. This week, I'm going to write an article that's been on my mind for a long time. We're going to talk about Symfony and why it's my framework of choice as a web developer. Are you ready? Let's get started! My discovery of Symfony In fact, in my life as a developer, my first encounter with Symfony went very badly... It wasn't its fault or mine. The first time I met him, I was a student, already quite geeky, cod...

Ludovic Frank - Freelance developer
Ludovic Frank
May 2, 2022
What technologies will replace JQuery?
What technologies will replace JQuery?

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Level: Confirmed beginner

Hi there! In response to some of my latest articles, a few of you have sent me a quick e-mail asking "But ... in legacy applications, what do I replace JQuery with?" So, when a question comes up, you know what we do? We write an article ... for everyone to enjoy. Bootstrap 5, the final stage in JQuery's demise? Let's take a quick look at some history. JQuery arrived on planet Earth in 2006. Back then, there was a big problem on the web (it was called Internet Explorer?, roh ç...

Ludovic Frank - Freelance developer
Ludovic Frank
Apr 12, 2022
What if the web was simple again?
What if the web was simple again?

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Level: Beginner

Good morning, So we're starting to enjoy the sun again? You are so right! But what about work? This week, we're going to talk about the Web, its evolution, why it's become a mess and how to breathe again? If you're a company passing through and don't have time to read everything, here's a simple question: Are you Facebook? No ? Then why use the same methods and tools as a company with unlimited resources? For those who want to go further, we continue. The 1990s, the birth of the Intern...

Ludovic Frank - Freelance developer
Ludovic Frank
Mar 29, 2022
How do you code a decentralized app (dApp)?
How do you code a decentralized app (dApp)?

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Level: Confirmed

Hello? How are you? Once again this week, we're going to talk about blockchain, but this time from a more dev point of view than the other times. Did you know that it's possible to develop on blockchain? Let's talk about it. Is a decentralized application (dApp) completely decentralized? As I write these lines, there are points of centralization in these applications, in fact it's relatively simple to understand "why? "These dApps run in a browser, but a browser only recognizes a fe...

Ludovic Frank - Freelance developer
Ludovic Frank
Mar 15, 2022
Buying cheese with Bitcoin? It's possible
Buying cheese with Bitcoin? It's possible

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Level: intermediate

Hello hello hello, Today, we're going to talk about my latest little adventure: enabling a 142-year-old company to accept cryptocurrencies. Setting the scene I've been working with Les Frères Marchand, for over a year now, at first we made a website together (it was Ludo Dev CMS's second instance), then we got the urge to create an online cheese shop together, which has been online since September 2021. On this cheese shop, everything is automated to simplify life for customers...

Ludovic Frank - Freelance developer
Ludovic Frank
Feb 9, 2022
Bootstrap user? Try Tailwind
Bootstrap user? Try Tailwind

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Level: Confirmed

I bootstrap, you bootstrap, he bootstrap, we bootstrap... Oulah, what's wrong with me ... ? Hello, hello? This week, we're going to talk about CSS, and more specifically about CSS frameworks, the best-known of which is Bootstrap, and the new kid on the block, Tailwind, who's trying to steal its number 1 spot... Bootstrap released in 2011 This framework arrived at a time when the web looked nothing like it does today - just to give you another date, Chrome came out 3 years before. B...

Ludovic Frank - Freelance developer
Ludovic Frank
Jan 25, 2022