This article is a step by step guide into how to host your static https website with S3, Route 53 and CloudFront. Static websites include React, plain old HTML+CSS+JS, Angular — anything that includes just serving the user with static files. Before getting started register and buy the domain name…

I was working on a bug in our code base with a colleague, when he noticed something strange about the behaviour of document.getElementsByClassName. In our code base it had been implemented as if it acted like document.querySelector, ie. you could save a list of elements to a variable, then mess…

I was recently advised to use Document.documentElement when querying the DOM to get the html element. This came about because I was refactoring an old code base to swop JQuery for vanilla JS. Doing this I saw: $(‘html’) This is JQueries way of selecting the whole Html element. Since I…

I spent a few years as a growth hacker for tech start-ups in Asia. During this time I worked with many startups, both successful and not. I spoke to many start-up founders and learnt about their successful and less successful ventures. …

At ComparetheMarket.com we are constantly optimising the speed of our site. We were an early adaptor of Google’s AMP technology, sold on the mobile page speed win’s it promised. Due to how early we were in using this technology we have faced many challenges on the way. …

While learning Javascript I came across the concept of an event. In this article I attempt to make sense of them and how they can relate to the DOM in vanilla front end JS. Events/ Events/ Events The DOM Is an event based system. The Browser is an event based…

An API is basically just a website. A website which only contains data (usually in the form of JSON), no html, CSS or java-script. To call MOZ‘s API we have to make up a URL string which will be posted to the MOZ server. The server reads this Url (request)…

A virtual machine is essentially a new machine on your current one. A new environment (area(in memory)) which is separate to your current. Why would one do this you ask? Simplezz, to create a windows operating system on a mac computer. This would mean you no longer use an IOS…

After spending years thinking about learning to code I finally decided to take the plunge and join a coding bootcamp. I decided to enrol in Maker’s Academy, ‘Europe’s most exclusive’ intense web development bootcamp. The first six weeks of Makers are spend working as a pair on a challenge, swopping…