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As 2018 grows ever-more familiar, the argument for moving away from a traditional e-commerce store is growing rapidly. Statistics show conversion rates fall from around 6% in native mobile apps to 4% on desktop, and only 2% on the mobile web. Let’s take a look at the benefits of Progressive Web Apps and the alternative […]

Vue.js ships with a few pre-defined events that allow you to capture an input from a user’s mouse, be it clicking on an element, hovering over it, scrolling, etc. Using these you can provide a greater level of interaction with your Vue website/web app. In this post I will go over some of these mouse […]

Following on from the first post covering this component, I will now go through a more advanced implementation of the Vue Slider component. I’ll start with separating the range slider to two separate sliders. In this example, one of the sliders will represent a minimum value for a form question, and the second slider will […]

Let’s construct a scenario for ourselves here. Say you want to allow a user to select a value within a predefined range using the user interface of a slider that can be dragged back and forth. Yes, this is very specific. Yes, this is coincidentally exactly what the Vue Slider component, the subject of this […]

Learn what Traits are and how to effectively use them in Laravel & PHP. Traits are a handy way of reusing code in PHP, another way to help keep your code DRY (or “don’t repeat yourself”).

I recently found an issue on a Magento 1 site where no matter what I tried, product SKU, product attribute in any combinations the product would always get the discount rule applied and the customer group would receive a discount on a product the merchant did not want discounted. Simple products worked fine but there […]

For many businesses, finding ways to increase the amount that customers spend on your website can be a challenge, as can increasing how much they visit your website. It can be easier to encourage previous customers to make more purchases on your website rather than finding new customers. In this article, I will go over  […]

Frontend developers have a variety of tools at their disposal, and depending on their methods of working and the type of project, some programming languages or frameworks may suit them better than others. Nevertheless, there has been a continued debate over which framework is the best. The best way to help decide a framework to […]