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That happened to me once and from then on I made sure to type long comments into a note, then C+P it into AO3.
ao3 being down right when I was leaving a six paragraph long comment on my favorite fic telling the author what I loved about the chapter is… more painful than the site being down right when I’m posting my own fic, apparently
the way I audibly make a sound from my throat when I hit comment and this shows up

#it helps me fix my typos#cause ao3 comment box is too small#html errors are easier to catch too#in other news when will my wife return I was reading a 200k sephiroth/cloud epic#just getting to their first time then boom :(((
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I’ve been relearning InDesign for book layouts. It’s been super fun and frustrating because a) it’s been a decade since I used it last b) I originally learned on a Mac and I’m all Windows now and c) I know there are features that exist that will make things faster and easier - I’ve just been stumbling around until I figure it out. I forgot how much I love the process though.
I’ve also been figuring out the best workflow for me. At this point we are at:
Download fic from AO3 as an HTML
Convert to Word - I do this using google drive actually. If you upload the html doc there, you can then redownload it as a word doc. Probably an unnecessary step?
Format the word doc - remove all of the tagging & content you don't want included in the main text. I like to use the layout tools for putting in section breaks in word instead of InDesign. It makes finding the chapter breaks easier.
Do all of the find/replace editing like replacing double spaces with single space, removing spaces before periods or commas, etc.
I do not mess with the actual text outside of those updates unless I catch a spelling error.
Grab whichever template for InDesign I've built and import the text.
Apply the body paragraph style to the full text.
I've started exporting the document as a pdf and opening it in GoodNotes. I like doing this so I can read through the text and see if I've missed anything, and figure out what I want the layout to look like, or think through any fun additions before I start working on the actual layout. As an example, I'm working on a fic right now where after reading through a bit of it, I changed how I wanted to address some of the content, like how I show things that are handwritten, and what the chat messages look like, etc. I wish I had done this with my first couple because I feel like I would have done some things differently if I had.
Once I've hammered that all out I'll go back to InDesign and start working through those formatting: any of the neat stuff I want to focus on like a section of chat messages, any items I want to handle differently from the body paragraph style, etc.
I save applying any parent page styles until almost last since everything up to this point can affect what pages the chapter starts end up on. I unfortunately realized after my first layout that applying chapter start parent styles too soon means redoing them a million times.
If I'm feeling good at this point, I'll go back through and find all of the widows and orphans that I want to deal with.
Throughout this entire process I'm printing out test pages to make sure that things are showing up in print the way that I want them to.
All that's left then is one last scroll through to see if I've missed anything and then once I feel good about it I print.
I know (from past experience) that there are much quicker ways to do this that don’t require all of these steps, but I like this process. I feel like pulling the text into GoodNotes and reading the fic in that way helps me remember what I love about it, and figure out how I want to highlight everything that is wonderful about it.
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I had a good week. The login manager is done, I have added proxy support, and some tag stuff is faster!
login manager
The 'manage logins' dialog has some small usability improvements, and it also has a neat 'do login now' button to easily manually attempt logins.
The network->data->review session cookies panel now hides 'empty' sessions by default and allows for cookies.txt drag-and-drop import!
And login scripts can now be rolled into the 'easy import' downloader pngs! They get listed like all the other objects.
With these last jobs, I have finished my last big jobs for the login manager. I would still like to write some decent help, and I'll fold new login scripts into regular updates as users create and share them, but this phase's bulky work is all complete. Sites with captcha and other complicated login systems (like exhentai.org) are not supported in this first version (so you'll have to manage without, or use manual cookies.txt import from your browser), but I am overall really happy with how it has gone.
proxy support
A user reminded me last week to add proxy support back in. This was an important objective of the big network engine rewrite (I had previously removed my tentative support as the old engine became too convoluted to support), and adding it this week couldn't have been smoother--the 'requests' library for python is just great. If you have an http or socks4/socks5 proxy you would like to use, please go to options->connection and fill in the simple new options. It has some text to explain it (including how to add socks support if you are running from source and lack the right library).
This is client-wide for now, so if you set a proxy, all client requests will go through it. Let me know if this causes any problems. I may revisit this and have it work on a per-domain basis, like how bandwidth rules work.
other
Searches that include 'system:num_tags' are now much faster and have accurate tag counts even when multiple services share the same tag! This is still a pretty CPU-expensive predicate, so I recommend you reduce the search domain by including a tag or a simple system predicate like 'system:size', but it should nonetheless run a lot quicker. I wrote a new and unusual query to pull this off, so please let me know if it fails in some situations. If it works well, I will use it elsewhere.
I have also started an extremely basic tag cache for the client db. It makes autocomplete results and file search results appear significantly faster in many situations. Like the new system:num_tags query, I am going to play with it a bit on my IRL client, see if there is any 'I noticed the difference in a good/bad way' feedback, and likely do a similar cache for file data and iterate on them a bit.
There are better and more "show all these things' files" menu entries on the gallery import and thread watcher management panels' lists' right-click menus. You can now choose between showing the 'presented', 'new', and 'all' files, and they now show more quickly in the current page.
I updated last week's e-hentai.org login script to one that works better, and I added a 4channel.org thread url class to permit watching the soon-to-be-separated sfw 4chan boards.
full list
added a 'do login now' button to the manage logins dialog. it only enables when the selected logins are active and not invalid and so on, and will ok the dialog and queue up some login attempts, which will make report popups as normal
'review session cookies' panels now support drag and drop cookies.txt import! cookies.txt importing will also handle errors a bit better and report total number of added cookies
the 'review session cookies' panel now defaults to not showing sessions with zero cookies. a new checkbox controls this
login scripts can now be rolled into easy import pngs! should work for export and import just like the other objects (although they won't be auto-added based on domain in export dialog)
brushed up some of the 'change login script' code--particularly, it now puts login scripts that have matching domains first in the selection list, for easier selection
after striking a reckless bargain with a daemon from the database-plane, system:num_tags now runs significantly faster and produces accurate tag counts even when searching over multiple tag services that have duplicate tags. if this works out, the immaterial beast promises greater gains for similar jobs with no possibility of anything going wrong
prototyped a new tag cache in the db that affects (and should speed up) many tag fetching routines. let's see how it goes
added complete, global proxy support for the new network engine! there are new options under options->connection (with some explanation text) to handle it. if pysocks is installed, socks4/5 proxies are also available!
updated the e-hentai.org login script to the new one on the github. your existing mappings for e-hentai.org _should_ all be updated right. exhentai.org is likely too difficult to properly support in the current system
the different panels where you enter system predicate information now all run on the new panel sizing system--if you have had problems with these, please let me know how they size now!
added a '4channel thread' url class to support watchers for the new 4channel sfw domain. it works for now, but let's see if their api changes when the split actually happens
the list right-click menu on gallery import and thread watcher panels now has three options to show combined importers' files--presented, new, and all. it also now shows the files (more smoothly) in the same page, clearing any existing highlight.
misc ui improvements
updated 'running from source' in help
next week
I have three more weeks until I break up for the holiday and start the big python 3 rewrite. With the login manager work done, I am now just going to catch up on small jobs. I'd like to focus on some code cleanup, particularly, and maybe untangle some hellish db siblings/parents code. If you missed the 'next big thing' poll last week, please check it out here:
https://www.poll-maker.com/poll2148452x73e94E02-60
https://8ch.net/hydrus/res/10654.html
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epub validation and error fixlog
Conclusion: 1.2.6 will be properly uploadable to Google Play Books. Just jotting down the details of the small journey.
It all started when GPB gave a “processing failed” message every single time. Decided to look up for any potential solutions..
Google support threads not helping. Some reddit post told someone with the same problem to convert the epub to epub using Calibre. Tried that - file became processable, but was missing a few things and I didn’t want to comb through every single page just to match it with the unconverted original version.
Looked for an EPUB checker aka validator. Found one made by gracious contributors called EPUBCheck on Github. Works like a charm, except..
297 errors? Really? At least none of them were fatal, or trusty Moon Reader wouldn’t even have opened them. Sigil catches internal errors on its own too (F7).
Eyes are hurting but I did squint. Few of them were telling me that I had png files with jpg extensions. Tech guru me had thought that changing the extension would magically change the property. Of course.
Renamed about 10 png files back to their original extensions and changed media-type=“image/jpeg” to “image/png” for them in the content.opf file. Solved those errors.
Rest of them were about html tags. NITPICKY AS HELL
First off: <p><i>well you were the one being lazy</i></p> shows the same in italics as <i><p>well you were the one being lazy</p></i>. But apparently I wasn’t supposed to use the <i> tag outside of <p> tags. It was easier that way to make several lines all italics, e.g. <i><p>hello</p> <p>world</p> <p>how</p> <p>are</p> <p>you</p><i> and those five paragraphs would all be encased in italics. No, EPUBChecker said, use <i>tags inside <p> tags EvERy TiMe or do something else. So I made a new class: div.italics {font-style: italic}. Or just jam it on the spot <div style=“font-style: italic;”> </div>. Ugh. At least there weren’t <i>that</i> many paragraphs I’d schoomzled.
Second. <center></center> tag. Why do you not like this? I have to use <p style=“text-align: center”> </p> for everything. And a lot of them were italics or bold as well. Time for div or span again..
Last two are about obsolete references I’d missed. That’s nice. No sarcasm here.
and at long last.....
Hurrah!
Now I’ll wait a month or so until Riot gives out new stories and things to chew on and stuff those in the file before releasing 1.2.6.
If anyone ever reads this.. and wants the 1.2.5 version that is fixed for Google Play Books now... send me a message or whatnot and I shall deliver.
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Feeding Frenzy 2 Review
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Feeding Frenzy 2: Shipwreck Showdown is the latest installment in the series and it doesn't disappoint. The adventure storyline will have you hooked and wanting to keep playing so you can discover what the mystery fish is. You can gobble up small fish while dashing to avoid being eaten yourself. The game is more geared towards kids but everyone can definitely enjoy this game just the same.
Basic Game Idea - Get Bigger!
You begin the game as Boris the Butterfly Fish, and as you progress through the levels you begin to notice changes in the food chain. Barracudas and Leopard Sharks begin showing up where they never were before. Eventually you will see the shadow of the mystery fish which starts your quest to find it. As you progress even farther through the levels you will play other fish like Edie the Anglerfish or Goliath the Great White Shark. You will eventually need to fight the mystery fish in a boss style fight several times until the end of the game. All this takes place in 60 levels with varying environments.
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The gameplay is simple in theory, but becomes very challenging as you move farther into the game. Controlling your fish is done entirely with the mouse. Moving up, down, left and right is done by moving the mouse just like you would normally. The left click causes you to dash while the right click lets you suck in large groups of fish. The second action is not available from the beginning of the game.
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When you start each level you are the second to smallest fish on the screen making your goal to eat enough smaller fish that you grow in size and are able to eat larger fish. You repeat this again to grow to a third size, once you have eaten enough in the third size you have completed the level.
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Back to drawio.
Wait what are those 404 errors?
Eg.
GET https://localhost:9200/remote.php/dav/files/marie/sample.docx?a=1&c=eaecda5a4933a474d9a25479ae485050&preview=1&scalingup=0&x=1920&y=1920 404 (Not Found)
Okay, ocis-jupyter stopped working for a while… but was fixed when I did make What is owncloud sdk? Reva? Webdav? How files are handled by owncloud?
What are mixins? Dollar sign vars.. Where all can we use it? $_fileActions_editorActions
:D Routing to /preview worked
I have a simple preview component.
I’m able to load up json content.
I realised I made a mistake in the project proposal. I added a python code snippet that was half js, half python syntax and the sheer embarrassment left in another hellhole of anxiety.
Apparently jupyter and colab notebooks have different format. Nbconvert won’t work on colab notebooks. Unless we do something. :)
Also null values not accepted in python. Since execution count can be 1. Let’s handle that case later.
No need for above case handling.. We can load json directly from a raw string. So just pass the string along to python. Return back the html string.
Now getting on to designing the grpc api.
Now there are many ways to do so.
Actually. Will think about that tomorrow morning. Just get this done to night. :P
https://github.com/owncloud/web/blob/a0a4bc4845bf802eed36befe5d50f6a775e58d9a/src/phoenix.js#L48 $client is an instance of owncloud sdk. Shit!! Wait. idk what owncloud sdk does. :/
So that’s how I’m accessing the files now. It’s easier too. Hmm.. just do this =>
this.$client.files
.getFileContents(this.filePath, { resolveWithResponseObject: true })
.then(resp => { this.fileContent = resp.body })
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Web Development has grabbed a lot of attention in today’s date. But the question arises, why has it gained such a massive audience in the last decade. So Here’s the answer: Web development is the basic building and maintenance of websites; it’s the whole procedure that happens to make a website look great, responsive, work smooth, and performing well with seamless user experience.
Web developers use a variety of languages depending upon the tasks. Web Development is highly demanded mainly due to its high payscale worldwide. It is also among one of the easiest domain which doesn’t compulsorily requires a university degree to prove yourself qualified. Web development is generally divided into two major sections, namely: Front-end and Back-end. Front-end deals with what is user going to see whereas back-end deals with all the server related stuff. Now let’s deep dive into the interesting facts about Web development and web design:
1. First Impression is the Last Impression
It takes less than a second, for a user to make his/her view on the organization by its initial experience through its web page. It is very significant to make the first impression as the best for everyone who lands on the page with the help of adequate background theme, fonts, icon designs, color combinations, proper animations(if required), layout, and maintaining the sections of the page in a well-designed manner. The first and most significant role for standing out through digital means is played by Web Development.
2. Easy, Easier, Easiest
Web development uses HTML, CSS, and Javascript to create responsive and attractive websites which are far easier than software development or android application development comparatively because in the native applications code should be programmed according to the platform because of the significant difference in language and processes resulting extra resources and skills to be familiar with it. But a web page has just to be built once with cross-browser support which not only makes it ready to use in all devices but also reaches a greater number of audiences. After all, the number matters the most for an organization.
3. Interrelation of Code and SEO
Your website should be the one that can stand out there. Many developers do not keep this point in their mind while writing the codes but each word can have a great impact to affect the reach of the page. Source code should be written considering SEO(Search Engine Optimization) which increases the rankings in search engines. Page titles and tags should be focused on during development.
4. More the Lists and Lesser the Paragraphs
A Bulky page with gigantic paragraphs is SEO friendly, but too much text reduces the responsiveness and avoided by the users. No users would prefer to large texts but surely go throughout the page if the details are mentioned in the form of lists with sub-points, pointing out the specialties, and along with it proper multimedia materials make it better.
5. The Older, the Worst
An average lifespan of a website is between two or three years because digital technologies are continuously evolving. The aspects all over the internet never remain constant, so adapting to the change is necessary. Constant nurturing and modifications as per the trends are necessary to catch the audience.
6. You can Learn it All Within a Week
Learning Web development from scratch is not a tough task at all because HTML, CSS, and Javascript are far easier and one can easily get used to it within a week. After learning the fundamentals, making a normal responsive website is just a task of less than an hour. One can become an expert at it from a beginner in a short span due to which it has been a great choice among the developers to opt for.
7. Won’t Go Out of Your Budget
Building and Maintaining a responsive design and making the web page search engine friendly can do really for a lower cost as compared to native applications that require separate work for multiple platforms. The majority organization goes for a webpage rather than an android app to spread the brand to its target audience because it takes just seconds to load and run in any kind of device because of its cross-browser support. So you do not need to worry about the budget.
8. Targetting the DemoGraphics
Proper research of user demographics must be done and design must be presented according to it so that your larger group of audience connects well with your web page. Different places with different people and their different norms, due to which the reactions to technology might differ. Themes and page backgrounds should be considered by demographics.
9. Making it Go Better with the Smartphones
According to the research reports, two-thirds of the users surf the web pages on their smartphones. So it is necessary to use things such as CSS Flexbox or other tags which changes page as per the screen ratio and doesn’t compromise with the quality. All users surely might not be having desktop and laptops, so proper communication with the smartphone audience with the chatbot feature might play a good role.
10. Web Development is Not Web Design
Many people might think that web design and web development are synonyms of each other. That’s completely misleading. Web design is a subset of web development because the web developer has a lot more to do than just design and write code. Designers are those guys who are focused on the look and finish of a website; whereas web developers have a broader responsibility to make all the aspects(Back-end and Front-end) of the site perform in an error-free manner. These myths have been brought up because of similarness between front end development and web design.
All these facts must be kept in mind as you go forward for your web presence. Always try experimenting with innovative approaches but don’t forget to consider the facts. Now you must have been clear about what web developers do? Do web developers make big money? Why should I go for it? So don’t just sit, start learning and building web pages.
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How to Monetize an App: 15 Best Mobile Templates
Imagine that you're ready to kick-start your own mobile app development business. Chances are you'd like to use the best development practices for your first app, and also code it as quickly as possible. You'll probably want to monetize your app as well!
This post will show you some easy ways to launch your next ad-supported app project.
In this article, I'll look at what app monetization is, list different ways of monetizing your app, and take a brief look at in-app advertising as a way to monetize your app.
Finally, I’ll introduce some highly customizable and versatile mobile app templates that you can use in your next development project. Each has Google's AdMob app monetization platform integrated, so you can build a revenue stream for your app from day one.
These templates are all available from CodeCanyon, where you can buy and download an app template for immediate use in your app development project.
Understanding App Monetization
The market is saturated with free apps, which has made it difficult to make revenue from selling apps. But your app can still be a very reliable income source. Researchers are predicting that combined global mobile app revenue for 2020 will reach $200 billion.
There are a number of different ways to monetize your app.
Here are some examples:
free and premium versions
advertising
in-app purchases
licensing your code to other developers
selling your app in marketplaces like CodeCanyon
using sign-up data to do SMS marketing and email marketing
subscriptions
What Is an App Template?
If you have an idea for an app but you have no coding knowledge, don’t be discouraged. There are developers that build mobile app templates that you can buy and customize and make them into your own app.
If you are a developer, instead of starting from scratch, an app template can be your starting point.
An app template is a pre-built application that has a lot of the core functionality already provided for you. The next step is for you to customize it to create the final app you want.
Read more about how to use an app template here on Envato Tuts+!
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What Is Google AdMob?
AdMob is an app monetization platform by Google. Developers have been using the AdMob advertising system to monetize their apps while still making them available for free.
There are many online platforms and networks for hosting mobile ads, but Google AdMob is one of the most popular.
What Does a Monetization App Template Do?
It comes with built-in AdMob functionality that allows you to monetize your app. In this case, you begin making advertising revenue by showing ads on your app.
Why Should You Use a Monetization App Template?
With a template, you don’t have to start building your app from scratch. You can start from an already built foundation. AdMob is already set up for you.
Let’s take a brief look at one of the most popular ways of monetizing apps: in-app advertising.
In-App Advertising
Digital advertising is the dominant form of online marketing. Advertisers realize mobile apps are the best way to reach consumers because people spend a lot of time on mobile apps and people prefer free apps. The catch for free apps is ads. Many developers offer their apps for free and use in-app advertising as a source of revenue.
The seven most common ad formats used in apps include:
interstitial ads: also known as full-screen ads, they display across a screen after the app loads or closes or in the transition between screens
banner ads: these display at the top or bottom of the screen with text and graphics
native ads: these don’t look like ads, but instead they integrate seamlessly into the app and appear as if they are part of the content of the app
video ads
notification ads: deliver ads to the notification area of the user's mobile device
capture forms: an opt-in form where users can enter their email addresses for newsletters
interactive ads
When you decide to monetize your app by incorporating ads, these are some things you should consider:
Do the ads enhance or interrupt the experience of your app users?
If you decide to run ads in your app, how can you make your users' experiences meaningful?
What advertisers do you want to associate your business or app with?
Do the ads reflect your brand? Are they tied to what your business does?
Too many ads on your mobile app may drive away users.
Too many ads may also hinder the functionality of your app.
Since these factors can adversely affect your app income, it is important to find the right balance.
Monetization App Templates on CodeCanyon
Now I will show you some mobile app templates you can buy and download to kick-start your own app. These mobile app templates are highly customizable and versatile.
Each has Google's AdMob app monetization platform neatly integrated, so you can build a revenue stream for your app from day one.
I have grouped these monetization app templates into the following categories:
Android templates
iOS templates
game templates
media templates
cross-platform templates
Android Templates
1. Best-Seller: Universal Multi-Purpose Android App
Universal is a flexible and versatile app template that can be customized for a broad range of designs. In addition to its built-in AdMob support, the template can easily integrate with more than ten different content providers, including WordPress, YouTube, and Facebook. It is a native Android app and comes with extensive documentation to help you get started.
2. Android News App
Android News App helps you run your own news platform. The app template consists of two components: an Android client and a PHP with MySQL server. It also provides you with full control over AdMob, allowing you to enable and disable features according to your specific requirements. The RTL (right to left) mode will come in handy if you want to add languages other than English and expand your global audience.
3. City Guide—Map App for Android
City Guide is a location-aware map and places app for the Android platform. It features eight different color themes, animated effects, responsive design, and a lot more. Also, it is built with easily configurable, cleanly written code, and its documentation will make getting started a breeze. It uses a local SQL database to store data, so reliance on the user's internet connection is minimized. And, of course, AdMob is supported (banners and interstitial ads).
4. Cookbook—Recipe App for Android
Cookbook is an Android app template for sharing cooking recipes. With easily configurable and customizable code, you can create your own app with relatively little effort and time. The template features a responsive Material Design interface and a local SQLite database in addition to its AdMob monetization support. So it's time to start "cooking" your app, using Cookbook.
5. Your Recipes App
Another great cooking app template, Your Recipes App is a complete platform with an Android client and PHP-based server. The powerful Admin Panel lets you manage your content to keep content up to date and error-free. You can send push notifications to your users with Firebase and OneSignal. There is even RTL (right to left) language support, which will help if you want to expand into other languages.
Android WebView App Templates
6. Best-Seller: Universal Android WebView App
Universal Android WebView App has a simple goal—bundle a solid Android WebView component with AdMob ads. It has lots of nice extra features such as Material Design styling, geolocation, and pull-to-refresh gesture support. It supports app development in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap and other web technologies, but at the same time offers its responsive design and clean native code as well.
7. RocketWeb
RokcetWeb is yet another WebView-based app for Android. It comes with a lot of configuration options and you do not need to learn any programming language to make changes to the app. What sets it apart from the competition is the wide selection of available themes. There are over 50 color schemes for you to choose from based on the theme of you own website.
It comes with support for RTL view, a dynamic sliding menu and push notifications. There is also integration for AdMob to serve Ads.
8. SuperView WebView App for Android
The SuperView WebView app for Android is great for people who already have a website and want to quickly create a mobile app that pulls up the content from the website.
It comes integrated with AdMob, social logins and in-app billing. Other features of the app include Firebase Push Notifications, Geolocation, splash screen and a loading indicator.
9. Web2App
Web2App is another app template that provides an Android WebView component, and it's packed with features. This template offers countless possibilities for customization. Not only that, but its comprehensive documentation, along with video tutorials and step-by-step instructions, make your job much easier than you might have thought possible.
10. WebViewGold for Android
If you have a website you want to convert into an Android app, then WebViewGold is perfect for you. WebViewGold for Android is an Android Studio package that wraps your URL (or local HTML) content into a real, native Android app! No more coding, no more plugins needed. This app template supports all kinds of web apps and websites, including HTML, PHP, WordPress, progressive web apps, and HTML5 games. It also supports AdMob banners and full-screen interstitial ads.
Android Media App Templates
11. Your Radio App
Your Radio App is an internet radio streaming app for Android. It supports several popular streaming formats, including M3U and AAC. This is a well-thought-out app with some nice features. For example, the ability to stop the radio when someone is calling is useful. The powerful admin panel, the great-looking Material Design UI, and the Google Cloud Messaging push notifications are also worth mentioning.
12. Your Videos Channel
Your Videos Channel is a great app template for those who just need to build a video streaming platform. It doesn't matter whether you choose to serve videos from YouTube or from your own server. This app is capable of handling either of those options. It has a beautiful Material Design UI, a responsive Admin Panel, and support for OneSignal push notifications. It's a great way to keep users engaged with your video content while also building an additional revenue source.
13. All in One Status Saver
This is an amazing video downloader app that allows users to save videos and status updates from all popular social media platforms. You can use it to save stories, images and videos from Instagram. You can also save videos from Twitter and Facebook. It even gives the option to save image and video from Whatsapp status updates.
The app comes with two different UI options and both of them have integrated AdMob and Facebook Ads.
14. Material Wallpaper
Android wallpaper apps are quite popular, and Material Wallpaper is a great way to cater to that market segment. It's designed according to Google's Material Design guidelines, so users get the visual experience they're expecting. The template can manage an unlimited number of categories and image galleries, thanks to its powerful and responsive admin panel. In addition to AdMob integration, it features Firebase Analytics and push notifications too.
iOS Templates
15. Web2App for IOS
Web2App for IOS is the iOS version of the Web2App template mentioned above. This template is highly customizable and ships with comprehensive documentation, video tutorials, and step-by-step instructions that make it easy to get started. You can choose from countless display modes and colors to suit your requirements, and of course customize the AdMob integration.
16. SuperView—WebView App
SuperView allows you to wrap your website in a simple iOS app. It's ideal for web developers who want to ease the difficult learning curve associated with the Swift programming language and iOS SDK. The quality of the coding and design in this template are really impressive.
17. WebViewGold for iOS
If you have a website you want to convert into an iOS app, then WebViewGold is perfect for you. WebViewGold is a Swift Xcode package which wraps your URL (or local HTML) into a real, native iOS app! No more coding, no more plugins needed. It’s optimized for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. It supports AdMob banner and full-screen interstitial ads.
18. RealEstate Finder App
As the name suggests, this is a real estate finder app for iOS. It comes with a user-friendly interface and some nice animation effects for user interactions. Users will be able to create there own profile in the app. You can also add, delete or edit any real estate listings.
There is social integration for both Facebook and Twitter. Users can also communicate using Emails, SMS or calls. As an app owner, you will be able to display ads with the built-in integration of AdMob within the app.
Mobile Cross-Platform Templates
19. Lemon Ionic 4 Full Multipurpose Template
Lemon is an Ionic 4 based hybrid multipurpose app that now supports Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Unsplash and WordPress. You can choose from over 15 different color schemes. There are multiple layouts available for different kinds of pages. This includes 4 galleries, 3 blog pages, 9 login pages, 5 profiles, and 3 sign up pages.
There is built-in AdMob integration to help you quickly monetize the apps you create.
20. Ionic WordPress Mobile App
IonWordPress is a hybrid app template that is built using the Ionic framework and looks great on both iOS and Android devices. The primary function of the app is to pull the content from your WordPress website and show it inside the app itself.
It comes with many useful and interesting features like search, bookmarks, recent posts and WordPress authentication.
Get an App Template Now!
App templates are a great way to jump-start your next development project or to learn from other people's work. Pick one of these great app templates today to kick-start development of your next app. Your time is valuable, and you owe it to yourself to do everything you can to get a head start on your next project.
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Angular vs React: Which is better for Your Application?
JavaScript as language climbed to the first rank on GitHub. it used continuously across different applications but not just for front end application development but also for back-end, building mobile application and even for building an AI application.
There is too much JavaScript framework, but Angular and React are a most popular JavaScript frame in these days
To use this in your application in a much more efficient way, you need to understand how they work, what they offer and in which way they benefit you.
Let's discuss to know which JavaScript will suit for developing your web application.
Angular
Angular is an open-source front-end development framework. Angular framework is based on the typescript. It developed and maintained by Google. It is initially released in October 2010.Angular 2 was a complete rewrite of the framework, started to use typescript. With angular uses a custom filter and more component driven.
It is a part of MEAN stack and is compatible with a large number of code editors and is considered for creating dynamic websites and web apps.
Benefits of Angular Front-End Development Framework
Cleaner Code
Angular uses TypeScript programming language, which is a superset of JavaScript. It compiles JavaScript, but also ease the process of finding and eliminating the common issues while typing the code.
This approach helps the developers in writing cleaner and error-free codes and ensure high code quality, something that is really helpful when investing in Enterprise app development.
Code Reusability
Angular Facilitate to reuse the same code by the developers. It saves the developers time and reuses the functionalities as developers want. This is one of the reasons why angular is preferred more than any other framework.
Higher Performance
Angular comes with hierarchical dependency injection, in that classes are not dependent on each other which helps in delivering high performance.
Lesser Timeline
Even though angular is a new technology it is derived from HTML that makes angular easier to learn and code. Even it requires less time for coding the entire application. It makes the creation of new applications easier with Angular with less effort.
Anyone can get started creating a simple application with angular by adding a few attributes to the HTML code in less span of time.
Simple Architecture
Angular development is considered as the simpler design architecture which is used nowadays and easy to catch up for any
angular developers
and enhance the features to any extent which the client requires. It works extremely well when it comes to managing the heavy web applications that contain several components and complex requirements
Convenient Testing
It supports for both end-to-end and unit testing. Angular made the testing process easy and flexible at any level of development. Have great testing compatibilities.
Better Error HandlingThe
latest version of Angular, i.e. Angular 7 also offers features like an upgraded error handling process for @Output in the scenarios where a property is not initialized.
Seamless Updates
Angular CLI is easy to install and use. It comes with innovative testing tools and simple command. It also makes an update on components having a third-party dependency.
Angular comes with incredible tools making it easy to rapidly build features with simple, declarative templates. Read our about Advantage of choosing Angularto know more about the benefits of Angular framework.
React
React is a twistable and flexible interface created and maintained by Facebook. It is open-source a library which is released in March 2013 and is mostly used as a JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
React is based on JavaScript and JSX (a PHP extension) widely in developing reusable HTML elements for front-end. React help in bringing component-based architecture to the game word. It is easy to maintain than any other architecture.
React has two frameworks which are ReactJs which is used for a web application development and React- native used for mobile application development. We will see here about ReactJs and how they help in building web application development.
Benefits of React JavaScript Library
Better User Experience
Unlike other JavaScript frameworks, React uses the Virtual DOM – the abstract form of Real DOM. This makes it easier for the React app developers to update changes performed by the users in the application without affecting the other parts of the interface.This results in building a highly dynamic UI with the exquisite user experience.
Time-Saving
In the case of React, the app development companies can reuse the code components at distinct levels at any point in time. Besides, the components are isolated to each other and changes in one does not affect the other which makes it easier to manage the updates.
This makes the React app development easier, time-saving, and efficient for developers.
Quick Development
React allows the developers to reuse the existing code and apply hot reloading into the process. This approach not only improves app performance but also accelerates the development speed.
Faster Testing
React make uses Redux which makes storing and managing a component convenient in the applications with enormous dynamic elements.
It helps the developers to add application state in a single object and empower every component of the app to access the application state without involving child components or using callback. This makes it easier to test the application and log data changes, along with the use of hot reloading and other such tools.
Performance
React takes advantage of one-way data binding with Flux controls. Flux help in updating the view for the user and control the application workflow.
To update the view for a user it makes use of virtual DOM and compares the new data with original DOM which in turn automatically updates the view.
Code Stability
React let the developers work directly with the components and employ downward data binding to ensure that the parent entities do not get affected by the changes of child entities.
Ease of Migration
When engineers and managers collaboratively decide upon migrating from an older technological infrastructure to a new one, certain questions arise on the level of effort and time required in performing the task.
React is lightweight and practically wrapped around the same JavaScript standards that made developers and managed alike, to fall in love with this language in the first place. React code can be added anywhere onto existing infrastructure without worry of shutting down the system for maintenance and also less dependency to reinvent the wheel.
Read our blog 7 Reason why ReactJS is preferred? To get to know why you need to use React for web application development.
React vs Angular: A Comparison Between the Two Front-End Development
Factors to compared for deciding the right Framework
User Experience
Error Handling
Quick Implementation
Data-Binding
Performance
Dependency Injection
Directives and HTML Templates
Time-saving
Reusable Code
Ease of Code Maintenance:
Data Binding
User Experience
Angular used Real DOM. Here, whenever a user updates anything in the single data structure, then it will be affected in the entire tree. This is useful in some cases, while troublesome in other cases.
On the other hand, react make use Virtual DOM. It allows React app developers to update the changes made by the users in the app without affecting any other part of the interface.
Error Handling
Smart and Better Error Handling have also improved in the latest version such Angular v7 which bestows unique error handling processes for output. The feature Error handler works effectively in the scenario where the property is not initialized.
React has also introduced components like Error Boundaries which quickly detect an error in the child tree and log those errors. However, you can detect an error during rendering, and that gives an edge to Angular.
Quick Implementation
The angular framework provides a lot of native options and features. Hence, you will be able to choose various options instantly. This will help you initiate the project without being overwhelmed by the number of choices you take during the startup.
In React, you have to take the support of various external component libraries to get the same features as Angular. For this, you have to add elements of routing, call to APIs, manage dependencies, etc.
Data-Binding
Angular utilizes a two-way data binding that binds Document Object Model (DOM) values to model data. This shows that whenever the user interacts with an input field and initiates a value to the app, then both view and model will be updated. This will further help you write less boilerplate code to make interactions between the components of the app.
React supports one-way data binding. It offers singular behavior for your application. Hence, you can easily know where data is changed. This also helps to reduce complexity. Also, it is simple to debug self-contained components of big React apps as compared to big Angular apps.
If you want to enable the unidirectional flow of data in React, Facebook has built its own app architecture known as Flux. Flux manages the flow of data from one end, mainly called a dispatcher. Flux’s dispatcher acquires an object and sends it to a proper store, which then updates itself.
Performance
Angular creates a watcher to look after all the modifications done in DOM. When view starts getting updates, Angular compares the newly obtained value with the old ones. The main issue here is that it checks all the values that are changed along with older values that are tracked via watchers.
React consists of virtual DOM which enables building light DOM tree and saves it to the server. When a user interacts with the website, for instance filling a form, React builds a new virtual DOM and compares it with the earlier saved DOM.
After this, the library finds all the things that are different between the two models and creates a virtual DOM again, however with a changed HTML. This complete process is done on the server which reduces the load on the browser.
Dependency Injection
Angular automatically finds appropriate injected objects and components such as factory, value, constant, service, and provide using parameters like route Params, filter, store, and $scope. Dependency injection is possible in the Angular framework with the help of two components: $inject and $provide.React doesn’t provide any option for a built-in container for dependency injection. However, you don’t have to find any way to inject dependencies instantly in your react project. You can take the help of some tools to inject dependencies instantly in a React app.
Directives and HTML Templates
Angular comprises its directives to work on DOM. The two most standard directives present in Angular include ng-bind and ng-app. Also, you can build your own directives as well. In short, you can use specific and standard directives to bind DOM elements into Angular apps. Unlike Angular, React doesn’t provide any division into templates and directives or template logic. Here, template logic should be written in a template only.
Time-Saving: reusable code, code maintains
Developers actually get irritated as they have to be dependent on various variations. However, in the case of Angular, developers need to learn a particular way of doing things, and it will also provide improved performance at a lower cost. Let’s check out some facts;
1. Reusable Code:
Most of the Angular code can be reused and therefore, you don’t need to invent the fresh one for projects.When you build projects using the React library, you can save comprehensive-time and money. Most code components can be reused anytime at distinct levels.
2. Ease of Code Maintenance:
Angular uses components and modules which make Angular code maintenance very easy.On the other hand, components remain isolated from each other that enables developers to make changes in the components independently changes in one will not affect the other.Angular or React, which is better for your applicationChoose React for your project if:
If you want to expand the functionality of your application in the future
If you're going to use more dynamic content which make the changes on views
You agree with a slower initial phase of development
Choose Angular for your project if:
You are in the inception phase of development.
If you want to get start your development quickly
If your application needs much robust and well-maintained framework of any rang.
Conclusion
In web development is hard to find, which is better than others. It depends on the fact of what you want and how you want rather that which is better.
If you like to have simplicity in development and flexibility, then go with
React application development. But if you looking for an effective way of managing and scalability with more features than get along with Angular.
In general, both angular and React are great for building apps. both offer different tools to build either web or mobile applications. Based on your project you can select these tools to make your application. Try to use the best fit tool for your application instead of jamming your application with tools that complicate the development.
Infinijth offers you both the JavaScript for building the application. Even you will suggest you with the best fit for your application from the pool of development framework.
Originally published at https://www.infinijith.com/blog/angular/angular-vs-react on 11 December, 2019
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Page Speed Optimization: How to Speed Up Your Website
You’ve built your website, you’re getting traffic through your analytics but you just aren’t getting the kinds of benefits you’ve expected. Your repeat visitor rate may be low and the time people spend on the site doesn't suggest interest or engagement.
One possible culprit may be your website speed or loading time.
Why speed matters?
The speed of your website is directly responsible for determining its performance, in terms of attracting visitors and keeping them interested for the longest time. If a website takes ages to load, users are bound to lose interest and move on to another website that offers the same services as yours but is much faster.
Moreover, your website speed is very important for your SEO. If your website loads fast, your ranking in search engines will be higher. This is because Google prefers fast websites, and it rewards them by ranking them higher in search engine results. Apart from speed, the user experience is another factor in Google’s ranking algorithm. So, by boosting the speed of your website and improving your user experience, you will eventually improve your SEO ranking. As a result, you’ll get higher traffic and attract more quality leads that you can convert into customers, ultimately increasing your sales and generating more revenue.
How to Test the Website Speed?
There are a couple of ways to test the speed of a website - by monitoring what real users are experiencing, or with 3rd party test tools that run tests to measure performance. Tools like Pingdom or PageSpeed Insights is recommended as they are very easy to use. These tools also tracks your website’s performance history, so you can have insight into any potential changes regarding your website speed.
So, let’s take a look at a few ways in which you can use website speed optimization to your advantage:
#1 Upgrade Your Web Hosting Plan
The major factor that influences the speed of a website is the hosting of your website. It might seem like a good idea to host your new website on a shared hosting provider that offers “unlimited” bandwidth, space, emails, domains and more. However, the point that we usually miss out on regarding this offer is that shared hosting environments fail to deliver good loading times on peak traffic hours, and most fail to provide 99 percent uptime in any given month.
Shared hosting tends to deliver a poorer performance because you are sharing the same server space with countless other websites, and there is no telling how much resources others are using. Plus, you don’t know exactly how well the servers are optimized.
#2 Enable Browser Caching
Microsoft speed specialist and computer scientist Harry Shum believes 0.25 seconds of difference in page load time — faster or slower – is the magic number dictating competitive advantages for online businesses. Enabling caching can improve your website speed significantly and give visitors to your site a more rewarding user experience.
Caching refers to the process of storing static files, such as HTML documents, media files, images, CSS and JavaScript files, for easier and faster access, so that the database does not have to retrieve each and every file every time there is a new request. The more requests are being made to your server, the more time it will take for your website to load.
#3 Use a CDN
A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a network of multiple servers located around the world that deliver web content to end users according to their geographic location. A CDN can host the static files of your website in order to deliver them more efficiently and reduce bandwidth and your server load. With a CDN, the requested web content will be delivered to end users much quicker, since a CDN will use a server closest to users to deliver the files they request.
As a result, not only will there be no latency, but your website will also become much faster. This is due because your visitors will access your cache instead of requesting files directly from your server.
#4 Use a Good Theme (if using WordPress)
Prevention is usually a better strategy than cure. To prevent lots of page speed issues in the first place, you should opt for a good host, a good CDN, and good theme / design.
As a digital marketer, it’s frustrating when web designers build sites that look beautiful but perform terribly from an SEO perspective or a speed perspective. I remember once having to deliver news to a client who spent one quarter of a million pounds on a new website, only to have it scrapped because it would have obliterated their digital marketing efforts. This is the most extreme example I’ve ever experienced, but it’s etched a scar that I’ll always remember.
#5 Minify your CSS and JS Files
When you look at what’s causing your pages to load slowly, chances are that it’s got something to do with lots of clunky Javascript files or CSS being loaded inefficiently. One of the pitfalls of WordPress and other content management systems is that a new JS or CSS file is added virtually every time you install a new plugin.
There are several ways to minify your files. The first way involves squishing all of your files into one – so instead of calling ten individual javascript files, you simply place all of your javascript in one file.
#6 Detect 404 Errors
A 404 error means that a “Page isn’t found”. This message is provided by the hosting to browsers or search engines when the accessed content of a page no longer exists. In order to detect and correct a 404 error, you can use error detection tools and plugins. As we mentioned, additional plugins can negatively affect your website speed, so we advise running the resource through external tools for error detection.
#7 Remove Extra Ads and External Services
Tempting as it may seem, selling too much real estate to third-party advertisers drastically degrades website performance. Too many ads or slow loading ads drive bounce rates and negatively impact online marketability. The financial losses that come with high bounce rates outweigh the monetary benefits of handing over vast website spaces to advertisers.
#8 Optimize The Size of Images
Everyone loves eye-catching images. In the case of successful eCommerce sites, images are the vital part. A lot of photos, images, graphics on your product pages improve engagement. The negative side of the image use is that they are usually large files that slow down a website.
Conclusion
Hence, these were some of the outstanding website speed optimization techniques for you. Improving site speed is part of conversion optimization. It’s often a low-hanging fruit that you can get done right away – improving user experience and revenue at the same time.
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I had a good week mostly fixing bugs and optimising. It will take a couple of seconds to update this week.
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I reduced a heap of UI lag on clients that have pages with a lot of collected (like 'collect by creator') media. If you often have five or ten thousand files collected and you noticed your client was getting choppy just when running some downloaders, I hope this improves things. Let me know how you get on!
I started real work on multiple local file services. Most of it is boring behind the scenes stuff, but as part of it, I overhauled the trash system this week. A heap of logic is improved, it is ready for more than one 'my files' service, and now hydrus remembers when files are deleted. Delete timestamps have never been recorded clientside, and unfortunately we cannot recover old information retroactively, but it is stored for all deletes from now on. Whenever the client wants to say 'this file was deleted', it should now have 'at an unknown time' or a nicer '3 days ago' suffix.
A second neat thing with the improved deleted files storage is I hope in the nearish future to let you search deleted files. This is a rare, clever query, like 'all known files', but there will be some kind of button you can press to flip your 'my files' or 'all local files' search to go through what has ever been removed from them. 'system:file service' will get similar improvements.
To reduce confusion, I renamed some hydrus network concepts across the program. The 'access key' (secret password for account), 'account key' (account identifier), and 'registration key' (one time token to create an account) are now known as 'access key' (i.e. no change), 'account id', and 'registration token'. There is more work to do here, particularly improving server setup and account management workflows to suit the user (rather than my technical ease), so I will keep at it.
In a related topic, the PTR is updating its accounts. The public account is moving more towards a 'read-only' account, and accounts that can upload siblings and parents (and perhaps tag petitions, eventually) will be individual to you and freely auto-creatable in manage services. This is mostly an attempt to make janitorial decisions easier and more accurate, since at the moment everything on that side is merged due to the shared account. Permissions have not been used much in hydrus network yet, and the workflows and user notifications here are bad and buggy. Please bear with me as I iron out the problems and make it all nicer to use.
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hydrus now keeps a track of when files were deleted! this information has never been recorded clientside, and it is sadly not retroactively recoverable, but it is stored for all deletes from now on. on occasion, when hydrus says 'this was deleted from xxx', it will now have 'at an unknown time' or a nice '3 days ago' string attached. it will take a few seconds to update this week as the new table data is created
the 'trash' panel on review services now has an 'undelete all' button
fixed a typo error in manage services when auto-creating a service account when more than one type of account can be created
the thread watcher page now sorts the status column secondarily by next check time (previously, equal status would sort alphabetically by subject as a fallback secondary sort)
I have renamed some network concepts across the program. before we had access keys, account keys, and registration keys--now we have access keys (secret password for account), account ids (identifier for account that jannies may need), and registration tokens (one-time token used to create a new account). I hope this reduces some confusion
reduced some overhead when fetching media results for a search, and when refreshing their tags on major content updates
fixed a 'no such table: mem.temp_int_hash_id_1'-style database error state that could persist for 30 seconds or more after certain rare rollbacks
fixed the FlipFlip link html in the client api help
fingers crossed, I fixed that bad Applications shortcut in the new macOS release
fixed a couple more instances of 'pulsing' progress gauges. now they should be blank
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more efficient updates in sessions with collected media:
several updates this week should reduce client UI lag when the session contains any pages with a lot of collected media, particularly when you are also running several downloaders (which spam all sorts of content updates across the client):
the content update pipeline now tests collections for their files before content processing, and now filters down to process just the updates in a group that apply
collections' post-content-update internal data regeneration routine now has more options for fine regen (e.g. no need for tags recalc if the update was 'archive file'), ignores updates for urls and notes (for which it maintains no summary), and only falls back to 'just regen everything' on file location changes
the 'selection tags' taglist now retains intelligent memory of its previous selection through collect/uncollect events, which reduces collect/uncollect lag on well-tagged files significantly
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boring multiple local file services stuff:
I cleaned a bunch of old hardcoded references to 'my files' and related code. it is not very interesting, but there are a few hundred references to clean up and convert to a system that supports 1-to-n local services, and this week I started hacking away, mostly presentation stuff, labels on menus and so on
your 'my files' now has a separate deletion record to the 'all local files' domain. its count shows in 'review services', and for the moment will just be 'all local files' plus the count in trash, but this will become more important when you can have multiple 'my files'
behind the scenes re-jiggering means that the deletion record now records deletion time and original import time. delete and undelete transitions are neater as a result
logically, files are now generally no longer moved to the trash nor undeleted from there, they instead fall there when they are in 'all local files' but no longer in any local domain, and are undeleted back to a specific service. a bunch of awkwardness is cleaned up, and import/delete/undelete content updates are regeared and ready for multiple local file services
a whole bunch of little things have been fixed and changed behind the scenes. I cleaned file service code in general as I went. examples of little things fixed:
- a 'delete and do not keep a deletion record' action now correctly does not change the cached number of deleted files as reported in review services
- the 'clear deletion record and try again' 'remove from trash' component now uses a unified and improved and UI-updating 'untrash' database action, with correct service count changes and UI-side status changes
- the 'clear deletion record and try again' action on downloader import queues now handles mixes of actually deleted files and files just in trash more neatly
- in the very odd situation that you are looking at a non-local file on 'all known files' and it is then imported using 'archive on import', its thumbnail and metadata now fade in correctly as archived
added some unit tests to test the new file delete/undelete transitions
cleaned up a bunch of hacky old db SELECT code
next week
Next week is a 'medium size' job week. I would like to try putting some time into the ancient image rendering pipeline and related systems like previous/next file prefetch. The basic media viewer has been jank and bad at zooming for too long. I am not sure I can make it beautiful, but I will try to clean some things up.
Otherwise, I am afraid I have fallen behind on some messages and other administrative work. It would be nice to put some time aside to catch up on replies, clean up my immediate todo lists, and triage some priority lists, but we'll have to see. I have had trouble recently doing anything but slinging out code.
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An Introduction To Running Lighthouse Programmatically
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Katy is passionate about making tech easier for those who build and use it. In her role as a developer at Sparkbox, she works mainly in JavaScript to implement … More about Katy …
Being able to run Google’s Lighthouse analysis suite programmatically provides a lot of advantages, especially for larger or more complex web applications. Using Lighthouse programmatically allows engineers to set up quality monitoring for sites that need more customization than straightforward applications of Lighthouse (such as Lighthouse CI) allow. This article contains a brief introduction to Lighthouse, discusses the advantages of running it programmatically, and walks through a basic configuration.
Lighthouse is Google’s suite of website quality analysis tools. It allows you to assess your site’s performance, accessibility, SEO Company, and more. It is also highly configurable, making it flexible enough to be useful for all sites, from the simplest to the highly complex. This flexibility includes several different ways of running the tests, allowing you to choose the method that works best for your site or application.
One of the simplest ways to run Lighthouse is through Chrome’s DevTools Lighthouse panel. If you open your site in Chrome and then open Chrome’s DevTools, you should see a “Lighthouse” tab. From there, if you click “Generate Report”, you should get a full report of your site’s quality metrics.
What I am focusing on in this article, however, is at the other end of the spectrum. Running Lighthouse programmatically with JavaScript allows us to configure custom runs, picking and choosing the features we want to test, collecting and analyzing results, and specifying configuration options unique to our sites and applications.
For example, perhaps you work on a site that is accessible through multiple URLs — each with its own data and styling and perhaps even markup that you want to be able to analyze. Or maybe you want to gather the data from each test run and compile or analyze it in different ways. Having the ability to choose how you want to run a Lighthouse analysis based on what works best for your site or application makes it easier to monitor site quality and pinpoint where there are issues with your site before they pile up or cause too many problems for your site’s users.
Running Lighthouse programmatically is not the best choice for every site and I encourage you to explore all the different methods the Lighthouse team has built for using the tool. If you decide to use Lighthouse programmatically, however, the information and tutorial below should hopefully get you started.
Customizing Lighthouse Options
The advantage of running Lighthouse programmatically isn’t only the ability to configure Lighthouse itself, but rather all the things you might want or need to do around the Lighthouse tests. Lighthouse has some great documentation to get you started. To get the most out of running it programmatically, however, there are two main places where you will need to dig in and learn more about how Lighthouse works: configuring your test runs and reporting your test results.
Lighthouse Test Run Configuration
Configuring a Lighthouse test run is one of those tasks that can be as simple or as complex as you like.
When running Lighthouse programmatically, there are three places where you can provide custom options: the URL you will be testing, Chrome options, and the Lighthouse configuration object. You can see all three of these are parameters in the function for running Lighthouse from the Lighthouse documentation:
function launchChromeAndRunLighthouse(url, opts, config = null) { return chromeLauncher.launch({chromeFlags: opts.chromeFlags}).then(chrome => { opts.port = chrome.port; return lighthouse(url, opts, config).then(results => { return chrome.kill().then(() => results.lhr) }); }); }
You can use whatever code you need in order to create these parameters. For example, say you have a site with multiple pages or URLs you would like to test. Maybe you want to run that test in a CI environment as part of your CI tasks, checking all necessary pages each time the task runs. Using this setup, you can use JavaScript to create your URLs and create a loop that will run Lighthouse for each one.
Any Chrome options you might need can be specified in an object that gets passed to chrome-launcher. In the example from the documentation, the opts object contains an array we’re calling chromeFlags that you can pass to chrome-launcher and a port where you can save the port being used by chrome-launcher and then pass it to Lighthouse.
Finally, the Lighthouse configuration object allows you to add any Lighthouse-specific options. The Lighthouse package provides a default configuration object that can be used as-is or extended and modified. You can use this object to do a multitude of things, including specifying which Lighthouse test categories you want to test.
You can use the emulatedFormFactor to specify whether you want the test to run in a mobile or desktop emulator. You can use extraHeaders to add any cookies you might need to use in the browser. For example, a test running only the accessibility category on a desktop emulator that outputs the results as HTML might have a configuration object that looks like this:
const lighthouSEO Companyptions = { extends: 'lighthouse:default', settings: { onlyCategories: ['accessibility'], emulatedFormFactor:'desktop', output: ['html'], }, }
This example represents a minimal configuration. There is a lot more you can do. The Lighthouse configuration docs have much more information. They also have a set of sample configuration objects for some more complex implementations.
Custom Results Reporting
When running Lighthouse programmatically, you can have the results returned in one or more of three formatted options and — and this is the most exciting piece in my opinion — you can have access to the raw Lighthouse Result (LHR) object.
HTML, JSON, CSV
Lighthouse will automatically format the results in three different ways: HTML, JSON, or CSV. These are all pre-configured results based on the basic Lighthouse reporting template, which is what you see if you run a Lighthouse test inside of Chrome DevTools, for example. In the lighthouSEO Companyptions configuration object from the previous section, you can see a key for output that contains an array with a single string: html. This specifies that I only want the results returned formatted as HTML. If I wanted the results both as HTML and JSON, that array would look like ['html', 'json'].
Once Lighthouse has run, it will return a results object that will contain two keys: report and lhr. We’ll talk about the contents of the lhr key in the next section, but the report key contains an array with the results formatted as you have requested. So, for example, if we have requested ['html', 'json'], then results.report[0] will contain our results formatted as HTML and results.report[1] will contain our results formatted as JSON.
The LHR Object
Running Lighthouse programmatically also gives you access to a much more flexible results object: the LHR object. This object contains the raw results and some metadata from your Lighthouse run. More complete documentation can be found on the Lighthouse Github repository.
You can use these results in any number of ways, including creating custom reports and collecting data from multiple runs for analysis.
Example: Running An Accessibility Test For Mobile And Desktop
Let’s say that I have a site that loads different components depending on whether the user is using a smaller screen or a larger one, meaning that the HTML for each version of the site will be slightly different. I want to make sure that both versions of the site get a score of 95 on the Lighthouse accessibility tests and that no code gets committed to our main branch that doesn’t meet that standard.
Note: If you want to see a working example of the code below analyzing the Sparkbox homepage, you can find the repository here.
I can configure Lighthouse to run the accessibility category twice, providing different configuration objects for each one — one setting the emulatedFormFactor to desktop and one setting it to mobile. An easy way to do this is to create an array with both objects, shown below.
const lighthouSEO CompanyptionsArray = [ { extends: 'lighthouse:default', settings: { onlyCategories: ['accessibility'], emulatedFormFactor:'desktop', output: ['html', 'json'], }, }, { extends: 'lighthouse:default', settings: { onlyCategories: ['accessibility'], emulatedFormFactor:'mobile', output: ['html', 'json'], }, }, ]
Then, I can create a function that will loop through this array and run a Lighthouse test for each object found inside the array.
One thing to note is that it is necessary to introduce a delay between each run, otherwise Chromium can get confused and the runs will error out. In order to do this, I’ve added a wait function that returns a promise when the setTimeout interval has completed.
function wait(val) { return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, val)); } function launchLighthouse(optionSet, opts, results) { return chromeLauncher .launch({ chromeFlags: opts.chromeFlags }) .then(async chrome => { opts.port = chrome.port; try { results = await lighthouse(url, opts, optionSet); } catch (e) { console.error("lighthouse", e); } if (results) reportResults(results, runEnvironment, optionSet, chrome); await wait(500); chrome.kill(); }); } async function runLighthouseAnalysis() { let results; const opts = { chromeFlags: ["--no-sandbox", "--headless"] }; for (const optionSet of lighthouSEO CompanyptionsArray) { console.log("****** Starting Lighthouse analysis ******"); await launchLighthouse(optionSet, opts, results); } }
In this case, I am sending the results to a reportResults function. From there, I save the results to local files, print results to the console, and send the results to a function that will determine if the tests pass or fail our accessibility threshold.
async function reportResults(results, runEnvironment, optionSet, chrome) { if (results.lhr.runtimeError) { return console.error(results.lhr.runtimeError.message); } await writeLocalFile(results, runEnvironment, optionSet); printResultsToTerminal(results.lhr, optionSet); return passOrFailA11y(results.lhr, optionSet, chrome); }
For this project, I want to be able to save the JSON results in a specified directory for our CI test runs and the HTML file in a specified directory for our local test runs. The way Lighthouse returns these different types of results is in an array in the order in which they were requested.
So, in this example, in our lighthouSEO Companyptions object, our array asks for HTML first, then JSON. So the report array will contain the HTML-formatted results first and the JSON-formatted results second. The writeToLocalFile function then saves the correct version of the results in a file with a customized name.
function createFileName(optionSet, fileType) { const { emulatedFormFactor } = optionSet.settings; const currentTime = new Date().toISOString().slice(0, 16); const fileExtension = fileType === 'json' ? 'json' : 'html'; return `${currentTime}-${emulatedFormFactor}.${fileExtension}`; } function writeLocalFile(results, runEnvironment, optionSet) { if (results.report) { const fileType = runEnvironment === 'ci' ? 'json' : 'html'; const fileName = createFileName(optionSet, fileType); fs.mkdirSync('reports/accessibility/', { recursive: true }, error => { if (error) console.error('error creating directory', error); }); const printResults = fileType === 'json' ? results.report[1] : results.report[0]; return write(printResults, fileType, `reports/accessibility/${fileName}`).catch(error => console.error(error)); } return null; }
I also want to print the results to the terminal as the test runs finish. This provides a quick and easy way to view the results without having to open a file.
function printResultsToTerminal(results, optionSet) { const title = results.categories.accessibility.title; const score = results.categories.accessibility.score * 100; console.log('\n********************************\n'); console.log(`Options: ${optionSet.settings.emulatedFormFactor}\n`); console.log(`${title}: ${score}`); console.log('\n********************************'); }
And finally, I want to be able to fail my test runs if the accessibility scores do not meet my threshold score of 95.
function passOrFailA11y(results, optionSet, chrome) { const targetA11yScore = 95; const { windowSize } = optionSet; const accessibilityScore = results.categories.accessibility.score * 100; if (accessibilityScore) { if (windowSize === 'desktop') { if (accessibilityScore < targetA11yScore) { console.error(`Target accessibility score: ${targetA11yScore}, current accessibility score ${accessibilityScore}`); chrome.kill(); process.exitCode = 1; } } if (windowSize === 'mobile') { if (accessibilityScore
I invite you all to play around with it and explore all the different ways Lighthouse can help monitor your site quality.
Final Notes
While I intentionally kept the example above relatively simple, I hope it gave you a good overview of what can be accomplished when running Lighthouse programmatically. And I hope it inspires you to find new ways to use this flexible, powerful tool.
As Peter Drucker said:
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.”
Being able to not only measure but monitor our website quality, especially for complex sites, will go a long way towards helping us build a better web.
Further Reading on SmashingMag:
(ra, yk, il)
Website Design & SEO Delray Beach by DBL07.co
Delray Beach SEO
source http://www.scpie.org/an-introduction-to-running-lighthouse-programmatically/ source https://scpie1.blogspot.com/2020/09/an-introduction-to-running-lighthouse.html
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An Introduction To Running Lighthouse Programmatically
About The Author
Katy is passionate about making tech easier for those who build and use it. In her role as a developer at Sparkbox, she works mainly in JavaScript to implement … More about Katy …
Being able to run Google’s Lighthouse analysis suite programmatically provides a lot of advantages, especially for larger or more complex web applications. Using Lighthouse programmatically allows engineers to set up quality monitoring for sites that need more customization than straightforward applications of Lighthouse (such as Lighthouse CI) allow. This article contains a brief introduction to Lighthouse, discusses the advantages of running it programmatically, and walks through a basic configuration.
Lighthouse is Google’s suite of website quality analysis tools. It allows you to assess your site’s performance, accessibility, SEO Company, and more. It is also highly configurable, making it flexible enough to be useful for all sites, from the simplest to the highly complex. This flexibility includes several different ways of running the tests, allowing you to choose the method that works best for your site or application.
One of the simplest ways to run Lighthouse is through Chrome’s DevTools Lighthouse panel. If you open your site in Chrome and then open Chrome’s DevTools, you should see a “Lighthouse” tab. From there, if you click “Generate Report”, you should get a full report of your site’s quality metrics.
What I am focusing on in this article, however, is at the other end of the spectrum. Running Lighthouse programmatically with JavaScript allows us to configure custom runs, picking and choosing the features we want to test, collecting and analyzing results, and specifying configuration options unique to our sites and applications.
For example, perhaps you work on a site that is accessible through multiple URLs — each with its own data and styling and perhaps even markup that you want to be able to analyze. Or maybe you want to gather the data from each test run and compile or analyze it in different ways. Having the ability to choose how you want to run a Lighthouse analysis based on what works best for your site or application makes it easier to monitor site quality and pinpoint where there are issues with your site before they pile up or cause too many problems for your site’s users.
Running Lighthouse programmatically is not the best choice for every site and I encourage you to explore all the different methods the Lighthouse team has built for using the tool. If you decide to use Lighthouse programmatically, however, the information and tutorial below should hopefully get you started.
Customizing Lighthouse Options
The advantage of running Lighthouse programmatically isn’t only the ability to configure Lighthouse itself, but rather all the things you might want or need to do around the Lighthouse tests. Lighthouse has some great documentation to get you started. To get the most out of running it programmatically, however, there are two main places where you will need to dig in and learn more about how Lighthouse works: configuring your test runs and reporting your test results.
Lighthouse Test Run Configuration
Configuring a Lighthouse test run is one of those tasks that can be as simple or as complex as you like.
When running Lighthouse programmatically, there are three places where you can provide custom options: the URL you will be testing, Chrome options, and the Lighthouse configuration object. You can see all three of these are parameters in the function for running Lighthouse from the Lighthouse documentation:
function launchChromeAndRunLighthouse(url, opts, config = null) { return chromeLauncher.launch({chromeFlags: opts.chromeFlags}).then(chrome => { opts.port = chrome.port; return lighthouse(url, opts, config).then(results => { return chrome.kill().then(() => results.lhr) }); }); }
You can use whatever code you need in order to create these parameters. For example, say you have a site with multiple pages or URLs you would like to test. Maybe you want to run that test in a CI environment as part of your CI tasks, checking all necessary pages each time the task runs. Using this setup, you can use JavaScript to create your URLs and create a loop that will run Lighthouse for each one.
Any Chrome options you might need can be specified in an object that gets passed to chrome-launcher. In the example from the documentation, the opts object contains an array we’re calling chromeFlags that you can pass to chrome-launcher and a port where you can save the port being used by chrome-launcher and then pass it to Lighthouse.
Finally, the Lighthouse configuration object allows you to add any Lighthouse-specific options. The Lighthouse package provides a default configuration object that can be used as-is or extended and modified. You can use this object to do a multitude of things, including specifying which Lighthouse test categories you want to test.
You can use the emulatedFormFactor to specify whether you want the test to run in a mobile or desktop emulator. You can use extraHeaders to add any cookies you might need to use in the browser. For example, a test running only the accessibility category on a desktop emulator that outputs the results as HTML might have a configuration object that looks like this:
const lighthouSEO Companyptions = { extends: 'lighthouse:default', settings: { onlyCategories: ['accessibility'], emulatedFormFactor:'desktop', output: ['html'], }, }
This example represents a minimal configuration. There is a lot more you can do. The Lighthouse configuration docs have much more information. They also have a set of sample configuration objects for some more complex implementations.
Custom Results Reporting
When running Lighthouse programmatically, you can have the results returned in one or more of three formatted options and — and this is the most exciting piece in my opinion — you can have access to the raw Lighthouse Result (LHR) object.
HTML, JSON, CSV
Lighthouse will automatically format the results in three different ways: HTML, JSON, or CSV. These are all pre-configured results based on the basic Lighthouse reporting template, which is what you see if you run a Lighthouse test inside of Chrome DevTools, for example. In the lighthouSEO Companyptions configuration object from the previous section, you can see a key for output that contains an array with a single string: html. This specifies that I only want the results returned formatted as HTML. If I wanted the results both as HTML and JSON, that array would look like ['html', 'json'].
Once Lighthouse has run, it will return a results object that will contain two keys: report and lhr. We’ll talk about the contents of the lhr key in the next section, but the report key contains an array with the results formatted as you have requested. So, for example, if we have requested ['html', 'json'], then results.report[0] will contain our results formatted as HTML and results.report[1] will contain our results formatted as JSON.
The LHR Object
Running Lighthouse programmatically also gives you access to a much more flexible results object: the LHR object. This object contains the raw results and some metadata from your Lighthouse run. More complete documentation can be found on the Lighthouse Github repository.
You can use these results in any number of ways, including creating custom reports and collecting data from multiple runs for analysis.
Example: Running An Accessibility Test For Mobile And Desktop
Let’s say that I have a site that loads different components depending on whether the user is using a smaller screen or a larger one, meaning that the HTML for each version of the site will be slightly different. I want to make sure that both versions of the site get a score of 95 on the Lighthouse accessibility tests and that no code gets committed to our main branch that doesn’t meet that standard.
Note: If you want to see a working example of the code below analyzing the Sparkbox homepage, you can find the repository here.
I can configure Lighthouse to run the accessibility category twice, providing different configuration objects for each one — one setting the emulatedFormFactor to desktop and one setting it to mobile. An easy way to do this is to create an array with both objects, shown below.
const lighthouSEO CompanyptionsArray = [ { extends: 'lighthouse:default', settings: { onlyCategories: ['accessibility'], emulatedFormFactor:'desktop', output: ['html', 'json'], }, }, { extends: 'lighthouse:default', settings: { onlyCategories: ['accessibility'], emulatedFormFactor:'mobile', output: ['html', 'json'], }, }, ]
Then, I can create a function that will loop through this array and run a Lighthouse test for each object found inside the array.
One thing to note is that it is necessary to introduce a delay between each run, otherwise Chromium can get confused and the runs will error out. In order to do this, I’ve added a wait function that returns a promise when the setTimeout interval has completed.
function wait(val) { return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, val)); } function launchLighthouse(optionSet, opts, results) { return chromeLauncher .launch({ chromeFlags: opts.chromeFlags }) .then(async chrome => { opts.port = chrome.port; try { results = await lighthouse(url, opts, optionSet); } catch (e) { console.error("lighthouse", e); } if (results) reportResults(results, runEnvironment, optionSet, chrome); await wait(500); chrome.kill(); }); } async function runLighthouseAnalysis() { let results; const opts = { chromeFlags: ["--no-sandbox", "--headless"] }; for (const optionSet of lighthouSEO CompanyptionsArray) { console.log("****** Starting Lighthouse analysis ******"); await launchLighthouse(optionSet, opts, results); } }
In this case, I am sending the results to a reportResults function. From there, I save the results to local files, print results to the console, and send the results to a function that will determine if the tests pass or fail our accessibility threshold.
async function reportResults(results, runEnvironment, optionSet, chrome) { if (results.lhr.runtimeError) { return console.error(results.lhr.runtimeError.message); } await writeLocalFile(results, runEnvironment, optionSet); printResultsToTerminal(results.lhr, optionSet); return passOrFailA11y(results.lhr, optionSet, chrome); }
For this project, I want to be able to save the JSON results in a specified directory for our CI test runs and the HTML file in a specified directory for our local test runs. The way Lighthouse returns these different types of results is in an array in the order in which they were requested.
So, in this example, in our lighthouSEO Companyptions object, our array asks for HTML first, then JSON. So the report array will contain the HTML-formatted results first and the JSON-formatted results second. The writeToLocalFile function then saves the correct version of the results in a file with a customized name.
function createFileName(optionSet, fileType) { const { emulatedFormFactor } = optionSet.settings; const currentTime = new Date().toISOString().slice(0, 16); const fileExtension = fileType === 'json' ? 'json' : 'html'; return `${currentTime}-${emulatedFormFactor}.${fileExtension}`; } function writeLocalFile(results, runEnvironment, optionSet) { if (results.report) { const fileType = runEnvironment === 'ci' ? 'json' : 'html'; const fileName = createFileName(optionSet, fileType); fs.mkdirSync('reports/accessibility/', { recursive: true }, error => { if (error) console.error('error creating directory', error); }); const printResults = fileType === 'json' ? results.report[1] : results.report[0]; return write(printResults, fileType, `reports/accessibility/${fileName}`).catch(error => console.error(error)); } return null; }
I also want to print the results to the terminal as the test runs finish. This provides a quick and easy way to view the results without having to open a file.
function printResultsToTerminal(results, optionSet) { const title = results.categories.accessibility.title; const score = results.categories.accessibility.score * 100; console.log('\n********************************\n'); console.log(`Options: ${optionSet.settings.emulatedFormFactor}\n`); console.log(`${title}: ${score}`); console.log('\n********************************'); }
And finally, I want to be able to fail my test runs if the accessibility scores do not meet my threshold score of 95.
function passOrFailA11y(results, optionSet, chrome) { const targetA11yScore = 95; const { windowSize } = optionSet; const accessibilityScore = results.categories.accessibility.score * 100; if (accessibilityScore) { if (windowSize === 'desktop') { if (accessibilityScore < targetA11yScore) { console.error(`Target accessibility score: ${targetA11yScore}, current accessibility score ${accessibilityScore}`); chrome.kill(); process.exitCode = 1; } } if (windowSize === 'mobile') { if (accessibilityScore
I invite you all to play around with it and explore all the different ways Lighthouse can help monitor your site quality.
Final Notes
While I intentionally kept the example above relatively simple, I hope it gave you a good overview of what can be accomplished when running Lighthouse programmatically. And I hope it inspires you to find new ways to use this flexible, powerful tool.
As Peter Drucker said:
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.”
Being able to not only measure but monitor our website quality, especially for complex sites, will go a long way towards helping us build a better web.
Further Reading on SmashingMag:
(ra, yk, il)
Website Design & SEO Delray Beach by DBL07.co
Delray Beach SEO
source http://www.scpie.org/an-introduction-to-running-lighthouse-programmatically/ source https://scpie.tumblr.com/post/629054404289609728
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An Introduction To Running Lighthouse Programmatically
About The Author
Katy is passionate about making tech easier for those who build and use it. In her role as a developer at Sparkbox, she works mainly in JavaScript to implement … More about Katy …
Being able to run Google’s Lighthouse analysis suite programmatically provides a lot of advantages, especially for larger or more complex web applications. Using Lighthouse programmatically allows engineers to set up quality monitoring for sites that need more customization than straightforward applications of Lighthouse (such as Lighthouse CI) allow. This article contains a brief introduction to Lighthouse, discusses the advantages of running it programmatically, and walks through a basic configuration.
Lighthouse is Google’s suite of website quality analysis tools. It allows you to assess your site’s performance, accessibility, SEO Company, and more. It is also highly configurable, making it flexible enough to be useful for all sites, from the simplest to the highly complex. This flexibility includes several different ways of running the tests, allowing you to choose the method that works best for your site or application.
One of the simplest ways to run Lighthouse is through Chrome’s DevTools Lighthouse panel. If you open your site in Chrome and then open Chrome’s DevTools, you should see a “Lighthouse” tab. From there, if you click “Generate Report”, you should get a full report of your site’s quality metrics.
What I am focusing on in this article, however, is at the other end of the spectrum. Running Lighthouse programmatically with JavaScript allows us to configure custom runs, picking and choosing the features we want to test, collecting and analyzing results, and specifying configuration options unique to our sites and applications.
For example, perhaps you work on a site that is accessible through multiple URLs — each with its own data and styling and perhaps even markup that you want to be able to analyze. Or maybe you want to gather the data from each test run and compile or analyze it in different ways. Having the ability to choose how you want to run a Lighthouse analysis based on what works best for your site or application makes it easier to monitor site quality and pinpoint where there are issues with your site before they pile up or cause too many problems for your site’s users.
Running Lighthouse programmatically is not the best choice for every site and I encourage you to explore all the different methods the Lighthouse team has built for using the tool. If you decide to use Lighthouse programmatically, however, the information and tutorial below should hopefully get you started.
Customizing Lighthouse Options
The advantage of running Lighthouse programmatically isn’t only the ability to configure Lighthouse itself, but rather all the things you might want or need to do around the Lighthouse tests. Lighthouse has some great documentation to get you started. To get the most out of running it programmatically, however, there are two main places where you will need to dig in and learn more about how Lighthouse works: configuring your test runs and reporting your test results.
Lighthouse Test Run Configuration
Configuring a Lighthouse test run is one of those tasks that can be as simple or as complex as you like.
When running Lighthouse programmatically, there are three places where you can provide custom options: the URL you will be testing, Chrome options, and the Lighthouse configuration object. You can see all three of these are parameters in the function for running Lighthouse from the Lighthouse documentation:
function launchChromeAndRunLighthouse(url, opts, config = null) { return chromeLauncher.launch({chromeFlags: opts.chromeFlags}).then(chrome => { opts.port = chrome.port; return lighthouse(url, opts, config).then(results => { return chrome.kill().then(() => results.lhr) }); }); }
You can use whatever code you need in order to create these parameters. For example, say you have a site with multiple pages or URLs you would like to test. Maybe you want to run that test in a CI environment as part of your CI tasks, checking all necessary pages each time the task runs. Using this setup, you can use JavaScript to create your URLs and create a loop that will run Lighthouse for each one.
Any Chrome options you might need can be specified in an object that gets passed to chrome-launcher. In the example from the documentation, the opts object contains an array we’re calling chromeFlags that you can pass to chrome-launcher and a port where you can save the port being used by chrome-launcher and then pass it to Lighthouse.
Finally, the Lighthouse configuration object allows you to add any Lighthouse-specific options. The Lighthouse package provides a default configuration object that can be used as-is or extended and modified. You can use this object to do a multitude of things, including specifying which Lighthouse test categories you want to test.
You can use the emulatedFormFactor to specify whether you want the test to run in a mobile or desktop emulator. You can use extraHeaders to add any cookies you might need to use in the browser. For example, a test running only the accessibility category on a desktop emulator that outputs the results as HTML might have a configuration object that looks like this:
const lighthouSEO Companyptions = { extends: 'lighthouse:default', settings: { onlyCategories: ['accessibility'], emulatedFormFactor:'desktop', output: ['html'], }, }
This example represents a minimal configuration. There is a lot more you can do. The Lighthouse configuration docs have much more information. They also have a set of sample configuration objects for some more complex implementations.
Custom Results Reporting
When running Lighthouse programmatically, you can have the results returned in one or more of three formatted options and — and this is the most exciting piece in my opinion — you can have access to the raw Lighthouse Result (LHR) object.
HTML, JSON, CSV
Lighthouse will automatically format the results in three different ways: HTML, JSON, or CSV. These are all pre-configured results based on the basic Lighthouse reporting template, which is what you see if you run a Lighthouse test inside of Chrome DevTools, for example. In the lighthouSEO Companyptions configuration object from the previous section, you can see a key for output that contains an array with a single string: html. This specifies that I only want the results returned formatted as HTML. If I wanted the results both as HTML and JSON, that array would look like ['html', 'json'].
Once Lighthouse has run, it will return a results object that will contain two keys: report and lhr. We’ll talk about the contents of the lhr key in the next section, but the report key contains an array with the results formatted as you have requested. So, for example, if we have requested ['html', 'json'], then results.report[0] will contain our results formatted as HTML and results.report[1] will contain our results formatted as JSON.
The LHR Object
Running Lighthouse programmatically also gives you access to a much more flexible results object: the LHR object. This object contains the raw results and some metadata from your Lighthouse run. More complete documentation can be found on the Lighthouse Github repository.
You can use these results in any number of ways, including creating custom reports and collecting data from multiple runs for analysis.
Example: Running An Accessibility Test For Mobile And Desktop
Let’s say that I have a site that loads different components depending on whether the user is using a smaller screen or a larger one, meaning that the HTML for each version of the site will be slightly different. I want to make sure that both versions of the site get a score of 95 on the Lighthouse accessibility tests and that no code gets committed to our main branch that doesn’t meet that standard.
Note: If you want to see a working example of the code below analyzing the Sparkbox homepage, you can find the repository here.
I can configure Lighthouse to run the accessibility category twice, providing different configuration objects for each one — one setting the emulatedFormFactor to desktop and one setting it to mobile. An easy way to do this is to create an array with both objects, shown below.
const lighthouSEO CompanyptionsArray = [ { extends: 'lighthouse:default', settings: { onlyCategories: ['accessibility'], emulatedFormFactor:'desktop', output: ['html', 'json'], }, }, { extends: 'lighthouse:default', settings: { onlyCategories: ['accessibility'], emulatedFormFactor:'mobile', output: ['html', 'json'], }, }, ]
Then, I can create a function that will loop through this array and run a Lighthouse test for each object found inside the array.
One thing to note is that it is necessary to introduce a delay between each run, otherwise Chromium can get confused and the runs will error out. In order to do this, I’ve added a wait function that returns a promise when the setTimeout interval has completed.
function wait(val) { return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, val)); } function launchLighthouse(optionSet, opts, results) { return chromeLauncher .launch({ chromeFlags: opts.chromeFlags }) .then(async chrome => { opts.port = chrome.port; try { results = await lighthouse(url, opts, optionSet); } catch (e) { console.error("lighthouse", e); } if (results) reportResults(results, runEnvironment, optionSet, chrome); await wait(500); chrome.kill(); }); } async function runLighthouseAnalysis() { let results; const opts = { chromeFlags: ["--no-sandbox", "--headless"] }; for (const optionSet of lighthouSEO CompanyptionsArray) { console.log("****** Starting Lighthouse analysis ******"); await launchLighthouse(optionSet, opts, results); } }
In this case, I am sending the results to a reportResults function. From there, I save the results to local files, print results to the console, and send the results to a function that will determine if the tests pass or fail our accessibility threshold.
async function reportResults(results, runEnvironment, optionSet, chrome) { if (results.lhr.runtimeError) { return console.error(results.lhr.runtimeError.message); } await writeLocalFile(results, runEnvironment, optionSet); printResultsToTerminal(results.lhr, optionSet); return passOrFailA11y(results.lhr, optionSet, chrome); }
For this project, I want to be able to save the JSON results in a specified directory for our CI test runs and the HTML file in a specified directory for our local test runs. The way Lighthouse returns these different types of results is in an array in the order in which they were requested.
So, in this example, in our lighthouSEO Companyptions object, our array asks for HTML first, then JSON. So the report array will contain the HTML-formatted results first and the JSON-formatted results second. The writeToLocalFile function then saves the correct version of the results in a file with a customized name.
function createFileName(optionSet, fileType) { const { emulatedFormFactor } = optionSet.settings; const currentTime = new Date().toISOString().slice(0, 16); const fileExtension = fileType === 'json' ? 'json' : 'html'; return `${currentTime}-${emulatedFormFactor}.${fileExtension}`; } function writeLocalFile(results, runEnvironment, optionSet) { if (results.report) { const fileType = runEnvironment === 'ci' ? 'json' : 'html'; const fileName = createFileName(optionSet, fileType); fs.mkdirSync('reports/accessibility/', { recursive: true }, error => { if (error) console.error('error creating directory', error); }); const printResults = fileType === 'json' ? results.report[1] : results.report[0]; return write(printResults, fileType, `reports/accessibility/${fileName}`).catch(error => console.error(error)); } return null; }
I also want to print the results to the terminal as the test runs finish. This provides a quick and easy way to view the results without having to open a file.
function printResultsToTerminal(results, optionSet) { const title = results.categories.accessibility.title; const score = results.categories.accessibility.score * 100; console.log('\n********************************\n'); console.log(`Options: ${optionSet.settings.emulatedFormFactor}\n`); console.log(`${title}: ${score}`); console.log('\n********************************'); }
And finally, I want to be able to fail my test runs if the accessibility scores do not meet my threshold score of 95.
function passOrFailA11y(results, optionSet, chrome) { const targetA11yScore = 95; const { windowSize } = optionSet; const accessibilityScore = results.categories.accessibility.score * 100; if (accessibilityScore) { if (windowSize === 'desktop') { if (accessibilityScore < targetA11yScore) { console.error(`Target accessibility score: ${targetA11yScore}, current accessibility score ${accessibilityScore}`); chrome.kill(); process.exitCode = 1; } } if (windowSize === 'mobile') { if (accessibilityScore
I invite you all to play around with it and explore all the different ways Lighthouse can help monitor your site quality.
Final Notes
While I intentionally kept the example above relatively simple, I hope it gave you a good overview of what can be accomplished when running Lighthouse programmatically. And I hope it inspires you to find new ways to use this flexible, powerful tool.
As Peter Drucker said:
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.”
Being able to not only measure but monitor our website quality, especially for complex sites, will go a long way towards helping us build a better web.
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How to Monetize an App: 15 Best Mobile Templates
How to monetize a free app? If you want to make money from of your app, some mobile app templates come with the Google AdMob app monetization platform already integrated into them. AdMob is a mobile app monetization platform by Google.
There are many online platforms and networks for hosting mobile ads, but Google AdMob is one of the most popular. You start making advertising revenue by showing ads on your app.
Developers have been using the AdMob advertising system for mobile app monetization while still making them their apps available for free.
Are you looking launch your next ad-supported app project?
You, too, can start making money with your app from the time it launches. With a template, you don’t have to start building your app from scratch. You can start from an already built foundation.
Top-Selling Templates with Admob for 2020 on CodeCanyon
Your app can still be a very reliable income source. On CodeCanyon you will find highly customizable and versatile mobile app templates to use in your next development project. They have AdMob already set up for you so you can build a revenue stream for your app from day one.
I will show you 15 mobile app templates you can buy and download to kick-start your own app. I have grouped these mobile app monetization templates into the following categories:
Android templates
iOS templates
game templates
media templates
cross-platform templates
How to Monetize Your App With an Android Template
1. Universal Multi-Purpose Android App
Universal is a flexible and versatile app template that can be customized for a broad range of designs. In addition to its built-in AdMob support for mobile app monetization, the template can easily integrate with more than ten different content providers, including WordPress, YouTube, and Facebook. It is a native Android app and comes with extensive documentation to help you get started.
2. Universal Android WebView App
Universal Android WebView App has a simple goal—bundle a solid Android WebView component with AdMob ads for mobile app monetization. It has lots of nice extra features such as Material Design styling, geolocation, and pull-to-refresh gesture support. It supports app development in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap and other web technologies, but at the same time offers its responsive design and clean native codeell.
3. Web2App
Web2App is another app template that provides an Android WebView component, and it's packed with features. This template offers countless possibilities for customization. Not only that, but its comprehensive documentation, along with video tutorials and step-by-step instructions, make your job—including monetizing your mobile app—much easier than you might have thought possible.
4. Android News App
Android News App helps you run your own news platform. The app template consists of two components: an Android client and a PHP with MySQL server. It also provides you with full control over AdMob, allowing you to enable and disable mobile app monetization features according to your specific requirements. The RTL (right to left) mode will come in handy if you want to add languages other than English and expand your global audience.
5. City Guide—Map App for Android
City Guide is a location-aware map and places app for the Android platform. It features eight different color themes, animated effects, responsive design, and a lot more. Also, it is built with easily configurable, cleanly written code, and its documentation will make getting started a breeze. It uses a local SQL database to store data, so reliance on the user's internet connection is minimized. And, of course, AdMob is supported with banners and interstitial ads for mobile app monetization.
6. Cookbook—Recipe App for Android
Cookbook is an Android app template for sharing cooking recipes. With easily configurable and customizable code, you can create your own app with relatively little effort and time. The template features a responsive Material Design interface and a local SQLite database in addition to its AdMob mobile app monetization support. So it's time to start "cooking" your app, using Cookbook.
7. Material Wallpaper
Android wallpaper apps are quite popular, and Material Wallpaper is a great way to cater to that market segment. It's designed according to Google's Material Design guidelines, so users get the visual experience they're expecting. The template can manage an unlimited number of categories and image galleries, thanks to its powerful and responsive admin panel. In addition to mobile app monetization with AdMob, it features Firebase Analytics and push notifications too.
8. Your Recipes App
Another great cooking app template, Your Recipes App is a complete platform with an Android client and PHP-based server. The powerful Admin Panel lets you manage your content to keep content up to date and error-free. You can send push notifications to your users with Firebase and OneSignal. There is even RTL (right to left) language support, which will help if you want to expand into other languages. And of course it has AdMob banner and interstitial support for mobile app monetization.
9. WebViewGold for Android
If you have a website you want to convert into an Android app, then WebViewGold is perfect for you. WebViewGold for Android is an Android Studio package that wraps your URL (or local HTML) content into a real, native Android app! No more coding, no more plugins needed. This app template supports all kinds of web apps and websites, including HTML, PHP, WordPress, progressive web apps, and HTML5 games. It also supports AdMob banner and full-screen interstitial ads for mobile app monetization.
How to Monetize an Android Game or Media App
10. Your Radio App
Your Radio App is an internet radio streaming app for Android. It supports several popular streaming formats, including M3U and AAC. This is a well-thought-out app with some nice features. For example, the ability to stop the radio when someone is calling is useful. The powerful admin panel, the great looking Material Design UI, and the Google Cloud Messaging push notifications are also worth mentioning. And let's not forget the AdMob support for instant mobile app
11. Your Videos Channel
Your Videos Channel is a great app template for those who just need to build a video streaming platform. It doesn't matter whether you choose to serve videos from YouTube or from your own server. This app is capable of handling either of those options. It has a beautiful Material Design UI, a responsive Admin Panel, and support for OneSignal push notifications. It's a great way to keep users engaged with your video content while also building an additional revenue source with mobile app monetization.
How to Monetize an iOS App
12. Web2App for IOS
Web2App for IOS is the iOS version of the Web2App template mentioned above. This template is highly customizable and ships with comprehensive documentation, video tutorials, and step-by-step instructions that make it easy to get started. You can choose from countless display modes and colors to suit your requirements, and of course customize the AdMob integration for tailored mobile app monetization.
13. SuperView—WebView App
SuperView allows you to wrap your website in a simple iOS app. It's ideal for web developers who want to ease the difficult learning curve associated with the Swift programming language and iOS SDK. The quality of the coding and design in this template are really impressive. And all the code is already in place for mobile app monetization.
14. WebViewGold for iOS
If you have a website you want to convert into an iOS app, then WebViewGold is perfect for you. WebViewGold is a Swift Xcode package which wraps your URL (or local HTML) into a real, native iOS app! No more coding, no more plugins needed. It’s optimized for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. It supports AdMob banner and full-screen interstitial ads for monetization of your mobile app.
How to Monetize a Cross-Platform Mobile App
15. Ionic Mobile App Builder
Ionic Mobile App Builder is another hybrid mobile app template based on the Ionic framework. This template comes with some great front-end and back-end tools, including a WYSIWYG layout editor, a WordPress plugin generator, and a lot more. Even if you're not so confident in PHP and MySQL skills, that's no problem—Ionic Mobile App Builder even has a web admin panel generator that'll take care of your back-end PHP code! Of course the AdMob integration alows seamless mobile app monetization.
Options for Monetizing an App
There are a number of different ways to monetize your mobile apps.
Here are some examples:
free and premium versions
advertising
in-app purchases
licensing your code to other developers
selling your app in market places like CodeCanyon
using sign-up data to do SMS marketing and email marketing
subscriptions
In-App Advertising
Digital advertising is the dominant form of online marketing. Advertisers realize mobile apps are the best way to reach consumers because people spend a lot of time on mobile apps and people prefer free apps. The catch for free apps is ads. Many developers offer their apps for free and utilize in-app advertising as a source of revenue.
The seven most common ad formats used in apps include:
interstitial ads: also known as full-screen ads, they display across a screen after the app loads or closes or in the transition between screens
banner ads: these display at the top or bottom of the screen with text and graphics
native ads: these don’t look like ads, but instead they integrate seamlessly into the app and appear as if they are part of the content of the app
video ads
notification ads: deliver ads to the notification area of the user's mobile device
capture forms: an opt-in form where users can enter their email addresses for newsletters
interactive ads
But not every app should use ads for monetization. Before you monetize your app by incorporating ads, answer these questions:
Do the ads enhance or interrupt the experience of your app users?
Does including these ads make the user experience more meaningful?
If you decide to run ads in your app, how can you make your users' experiences meaningful?
What advertisers do you want to associate your business or app with?
Do the ads reflect your brand? Are they tied to what your business does?
Too many ads on your mobile app may drive away users. Also, too many ads may also hinder the functionality of your app. Since these factors can adversely affect your app income, it is important to find the right balance.
Launch Your Mobile App With a Great Template
This article lists just a few of the popular app templates with monetization available on CodeCanyon.
If you are looking for inspiration or you're building an application and need help with a particular feature, then you may find your answer in some of these templates.
Put one of these templates to use right now, or check out some of the other templates for complete apps available on CodeCanyon.
Best Mobile App Templates from CodeCanyon
CodeCanyon is an online marketplace that has hundreds of mobile app templates—for Android, iOS, React Native, and Ionic. You can save days, even months, of effort by using one of them.
If you have trouble deciding which template on CodeCanyon is right for you, these articles should help:
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Imagine that you're ready to kick-start your own mobile app development business. Chances are you'd like to use the best development practices for your first app, and also code it as quickly as possible. You'll probably want to monetize your app as well!
This post will show you some easy ways to launch your next ad-supported app project.
In this article I'll look at what app monetization is, list different ways of monetizing your app, and take a brief look at in-app advertising as a way to monetize your app.
Finally, I’ll introduce some highly customizable and versatile mobile app templates that you can use in your next development project. Each has Google's AdMob app monetization platform integrated, so you can build a revenue stream for your app from day one.
These templates are all available from CodeCanyon, where you can buy and download an app template for immediate use in your app development project.
Understanding App Monetization
The market is saturated with free apps, which has made it difficult to make revenue from selling apps. But your app can still be a very reliable income source. Researchers are predicting that combined global mobile app revenue for 2020 will reach $200 billion.
There are a number of different ways to monetize your app.
Here are some examples:
free and premium versions
advertising
in-app purchases
licensing your code to other developers
selling your app in market places like CodeCanyon
using sign-up data to do SMS marketing and email marketing
subscriptions
What Is an App Template?
If you have an idea for an app but you have no coding knowledge, don’t be discouraged. There are developers that build mobile app templates that you can buy and customize and make them into your own app.
If you are a developer, instead of starting from scratch, an app template can be your starting point.
An app template is a pre-built application that has a lot of the core functionality already provided for you. The next step is for you to customize it to create the final app you want.
Read more about how to use an app template here on Envato Tuts+!
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App Templates for Monetization
If you want to make money out of your app, some mobile app templates come with Google AdMob app monetization platform already integrated into them. You can start making money with your app from the time it launches.
What Is Google AdMob?
AdMob is an app monetization platform by Google. Developers have been using the AdMob advertising system to monetize their apps while still making them available for free.
There are many online platforms and networks for hosting mobile ads, but Google AdMob is one of the most popular.
What Does a Monetization App Template Do?
It comes with built-in AdMob functionality that allows you to monetize your app. In this case, you begin making advertising revenue by showing ads on your app.
Why Should You Use a Monetization App Template?
With a template, you don’t have to start building your app from scratch. You can start from an already built foundation. AdMob is already set up for you.
Let’s take a brief look at one of the most popular ways of monetizing apps: in-app advertising.
In-App Advertising
Digital advertising is the dominant form of online marketing. Advertisers realize mobile apps are the best way to reach consumers because people spend a lot of time on mobile apps and people prefer free apps. The catch for free apps is ads. Many developers offer their apps for free and utilize in-app advertising as a source of revenue.
The seven most common ad formats used in apps include:
interstitial ads: also known as full-screen ads, they display across a screen after the app loads or closes or in the transition between screens
banner ads: these display at the top or bottom of the screen with text and graphics
native ads: these don’t look like ads, but instead they integrate seamlessly into the app and appear as if they are part of the content of the app
video ads
notification ads: deliver ads to the notification area of the user's mobile device
capture forms: an opt-in form where users can enter their email addresses for newsletters
interactive ads
When you decide to monetize your app by incorporating ads, these are some things you should consider:
Do the ads enhance or interrupt the experience of your app users?
Does including these ads make the user experience more meaningful?
If you decide to run ads in your app, how can you make your users' experiences meaningful?
What advertisers do you want to associate your business or app with?
Do the ads reflect your brand? Are they tied to what your business does?
Too many ads on your mobile app may drive away users.
Too many ads may also hinder the functionality of your app.
Since these factors can adversely affect your app income, it is important to find the right balance.
Monetization App Templates on CodeCanyon
Now I will show you some mobile app templates you can buy and download to kick-start your own app. These mobile app templates are highly customizable and versatile.
Each has Google's AdMob app monetization platform neatly integrated, so you can build a revenue stream for your app from day one.
I have grouped these monetization app templates into the following categories:
Android templates
iOS templates
game templates
media templates
cross-platform templates
Android Templates
1. Universal Multi-Purpose Android App
Universal is a flexible and versatile app template that can be customized for a broad range of designs. In addition to its built-in AdMob support, the template can easily integrate with more than ten different content providers, including WordPress, YouTube, and Facebook. It is a native Android app and comes with extensive documentation to help you get started.
2. Universal Android WebView App
Universal Android WebView App has a simple goal—bundle a solid Android WebView component with AdMob ads. It has lots of nice extra features such as Material Design styling, geolocation, and pull-to-refresh gesture support. It supports app development in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap and other web technologies, but at the same time offers its responsive design and clean native code as well.
3. Web2App
Web2App is another app template that provides an Android WebView component, and it's packed with features. This template offers countless possibilities for customization. Not only that, but its comprehensive documentation, along with video tutorials and step-by-step instructions, make your job much easier than you might have thought possible.
4. Android News App
Android News App helps you run your own news platform. The app template consists of two components: an Android client and a PHP with MySQL server. It also provides you with full control over AdMob, allowing you to enable and disable features according to your specific requirements. The RTL (right to left) mode will come in handy if you want to add languages other than English and expand your global audience.
5. City Guide—Map App for Android
City Guide is a location-aware map and places app for the Android platform. It features eight different color themes, animated effects, responsive design, and a lot more. Also, it is built with easily configurable, cleanly written code, and its documentation will make getting started a breeze. It uses a local SQL database to store data, so reliance on the user's internet connection is minimized. And, of course, AdMob is supported (banners and interstitial ads).
6. Cookbook—Recipe App for Android
Cookbook is an Android app template for sharing cooking recipes. With easily configurable and customizable code, you can create your own app with relatively little effort and time. The template features a responsive Material Design interface and a local SQLite database in addition to its AdMob monetization support. So it's time to start "cooking" your app, using Cookbook.
7. Material Wallpaper
Android wallpaper apps are quite popular, and Material Wallpaper is a great way to cater to that market segment. It's designed according to Google's Material Design guidelines, so users get the visual experience they're expecting. The template can manage an unlimited number of categories and image galleries, thanks to its powerful and responsive admin panel. In addition to AdMob integration, it features Firebase Analytics and push notifications too.
8. Your Recipes App
Another great cooking app template, Your Recipes App is a complete platform with an Android client and PHP-based server. The powerful Admin Panel lets you manage your content to keep content up to date and error-free. You can send push notifications to your users with Firebase and OneSignal. There is even RTL (right to left) language support, which will help if you want to expand into other languages.
9. WebViewGold for Android
If you have a website you want to convert into an Android app, then WebViewGold is perfect for you. WebViewGold for Android is an Android Studio package that wraps your URL (or local HTML) content into a real, native Android app! No more coding, no more plugins needed. This app template supports all kinds of web apps and websites, including HTML, PHP, WordPress, progressive web apps, and HTML5 games. It also supports AdMob banner and full-screen interstitial ads.
Android Games and Media App Templates
10. Your Radio App
Your Radio App is an internet radio streaming app for Android. It supports several popular streaming formats, including M3U and AAC. This is a well-thought-out app with some nice features. For example, the ability to stop the radio when someone is calling is useful. The powerful admin panel, the great looking Material Design UI, and the Google Cloud Messaging push notifications are also worth mentioning.
11. Your Videos Channel
Your Videos Channel is a great app template for those who just need to build a video streaming platform. It doesn't matter whether you choose to serve videos from YouTube or from your own server. This app is capable of handling either of those options. It has a beautiful Material Design UI, a responsive Admin Panel, and support for OneSignal push notifications. It's a great way to keep users engaged with your video content while also building an additional revenue source.
iOS Templates
12. Web2App for IOS
Web2App for IOS is the iOS version of the Web2App template mentioned above. This template is highly customizable and ships with comprehensive documentation, video tutorials, and step-by-step instructions that make it easy to get started. You can choose from countless display modes and colors to suit your requirements, and of course customize the AdMob integration.
13. SuperView—WebView App
SuperView allows you to wrap your website in a simple iOS app. It's ideal for web developers who want to ease the difficult learning curve associated with the Swift programming language and iOS SDK. The quality of the coding and design in this template are really impressive.
14. WebViewGold for iOS
If you have a website you want to convert into an iOS app, then WebViewGold is perfect for you. WebViewGold is a Swift Xcode package which wraps your URL (or local HTML) into a real, native iOS app! No more coding, no more plugins needed. It’s optimized for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. It supports AdMob banner & full-screen interstitial ads.
Mobile Cross-Platform Templates
15. Ionic Mobile App Builder
Ionic Mobile App Builder is another hybrid mobile app template based on the Ionic framework. This template comes with some great front-end and back-end tools, including a WYSIWYG layout editor, a WordPress plugin generator, and a lot more. Even if you're not so confident in PHP and MySQL skills, that's no problem—Ionic Mobile App Builder even has a web admin panel generator that'll take care of your PHP code!
Get an App Template Now!
App templates are a great way to jump-start your next development project or to learn from other people's work. Pick one of these great app templates today to kick-start development of your next app. Your time is valuable, and you owe it to yourself to do everything you can to get a head start on your next project.
There are many more templates available on Code Canyon. Put one of them to use right now, or read more about how to use an app template here on Envato Tuts+!
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Job Oriented Courses for PHP Developers 2020 | ExcelPTP
PHP is probably the most widely used language for the creation of the website and it makes the job of developers also easier. It is one of the most prominent languages used for developing websites and it provides fantastic results upon the completion of the process. The reasons are very clear for this, PHP training provides a very appropriate environment for development. It allows the developers to include various things with ease and a maximum number of errors.
What Is PHP?
PHP stands for machine-readable text Preprocessor (no, the signifier does not follow the name). It’s association supply, a server-side, scripting language used for the event of net applications. By scripting language, we tend to mean a program that’s script-based (lines of code) written for the automation of tasks.
Web pages are often designed mistreatment hypertext mark-up language. With HTML, code execution is completed on the user’s browser (client-side). On the opposite hand, with PHP server-side scripting language, it’s dead on the server before it gets to the net browser of the user.
PHP is often embedded in a hypertext mark-up language, and it’s well matched for net development and also the creation of dynamic web content for net applications, e-commerce applications, and info applications. It’s thought-about a friendly language with talents to simply connect with MySQL, Oracle, and different databases.
PHP Use
PHP script can be used on most of the well-known operating systems like Linux, Unix, Solaris, Microsoft Windows, MAC OS, and many others. It also supports most web servers including Apache and IIS. Using PHP affords web developers the freedom to choose their operating system and a web server.
In PHP, server-side is the main area of operation.Server-side scripting with PHP involves:
PHP Parser: a program that converts source and human readable code into a formate easier for the computer to understand
Web server: a Program that executes files that from web pages from user requests
Web browser:an Application used to display content on the world wide web
There are many job oriented PHP Framework course:
CakePHP
Zend
Yii
Laravel
Symfony
Code Igniter
WordPress
Typo3
Drupal
MeanStack
FullStack
CakePHP Framework
CakePHP is a free, open-source, rapid development framework for PHP. it’s a foundational structure for programmers to create web applications. This framework is the best choice for beginners. It also helps in developing brisk commercial web apps. It also provides scaffolding functionality and code generation, which helps in speeding up the development process.
CakePHP has an active developer team and community, bringing great value to the project. In addition to keeping you from the wheel – reinventing, using CakePHP means your application’s core is well tested and is being constantly improved.
Here’s a list of features of CakePHP:
Active, friendly community
Flexible licensing
Integrated CRUD for database interaction
Compatible with versions 4 and 5 of PHP
Fast and flexible templeting (PHP syntax, with helpers)
View helpers for AJAX, JavaScript, HTML Forms and more
Email, cookie, Security, Session, and Request Handling Components
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Zend Framework
Zend Framework is a fully object-oriented framework, and such as, it utilizes a lot of object-oriented concepts like inheritance and interfaces. This makes most, if not all, of ZF’s components extendable to some point. Being able to customize ZF this way allows you to create functionality that is unique to your project.
Whether you’re starting a new project or improving an existing one, in this article, we will go in-depth about why Zend Framework Development should absolutely be your PHP Framework of choice.
Here’s a list the features of Zend Framework:
Overview
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level
Zend packs a spread of options like an easy drag and drop editor, scientific discipline writing tools, a connected information Wizard, and instant on-line debugging tools. Its editor supports front-end technologies like hypertext mark-up language, CSS and JavaScript also. The ascendable framework is right for complicated websites because it offers a myriad of configuration choices. However, it’s one of the foremost troublesome to be told.
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Laravel Framework
Laravel may be a comparatively new PHP framework however un-arguably the foremost common PHP Framework out there to this point. Learning Laravel is straightforward since every unleashes is totally documented. They conjointly offer several screencasts, tutorials, and weblog updates.
Laravel has several options that build speedy application development attainable. The craftsman command-line interface provides a variety of useful commands whereas developing the appliance. Laravel contains a powerful templating engine too, that allows common tasks like authentication, caching, sessions, relaxing routing, and queuing easier for developers.
Here Some best features of Laravel are such as:
Simple and Secure
Object-oriented approach
Fast & cost effective
MVC support
Artisan
Blade Template Engine
Unit Testing
Catching
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Symfony Framework
Symfony is another common PHP framework that empowers developers with a collection of reusable PHP elements and code. once it involves developing large-scale enterprise comes, Symfony makes an ideal selection among PHP frameworks. The elements of the Symfony framework square measure utilized by several content management systems like Drupal, PHPBB, Piwik, ORO CRM and even the favored Laravel itself uses it.
Symfony’s system is big and is supported by a vigorous community of developers. It provides an innovative and easy to use work environment because of its integrating solutions. Symfony also allows its users to choose the software components as per their interest.
Top Benefits of symfony Framework:
High Flexibility
Commercially supported
Reliable
Well – Managed Documentation
Symfony is a powerful and robust PHP framework to speed up the development process. Symfony ranked 3rd in popularity after Laravel and CodeIgniter. Along with that, it works basically the same as most of the PHP framework work.
CodeIngniter Framework
CodeIgniter is one among the oldest frameworks however is straightforward and powerful. It will simply be put in and needs a stripped user configuration. It works absolutely on most shared and dedicated hosting platforms. CodeIgniter isn’t entirely supported the MVC framework. Models and Views square measure nonmandatory, however Controller categories square measure a requirement. Another strength of CodeIgniter is speed. It runs quicker with information tasks as compared to different frameworks. CodeIgniter is well documented and a decent framework to start out with for PHP beginners.
Here is the list of top features of CodeIngiter:
Model-View-Controller Based System
Extremely Light Weight
Query Builder Database support
Form and Data Validation
Localization
Data Encryption
Error Logging
Zip Encoding Class
XML-RPC Library
Unit Testing Class
Support for Hooks and Class Extensions
CodeIgniter is already a decade recent, however it’s still among the foremost widespread PHP frameworks. CodeIgniter brings speed, dependableness, and security. it’s nice support from the community of developers to stay up with the most recent technology trends. It’s a contemporary framework and is correctly fitted to business internetapplications. type validation, SQL injection hindrance, sensible documentation, cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection, cross-site scripting (XSS) hindrance area unit unbeatable options of CodeIgniter. For More details Visit our website: CodeIgniter Training with Certification
Yii Framework
Yii is among the oldest PHP frameworks and has come back up with its latest version Yii a pair of to urge a much-needed quality boost. Yii a pair of is solely object-oriented and relies on the DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) writing construct. One Yii a pair of sturdy features is that the lazy loading technique, that makes it quicker compared to different frameworks.
It excels for large-scale web site development as a result of it is integrated with Ajax and JQuery options. to boot, it’s a robust category code generator known as Gii that facilitates object-oriented programming and speedy prototyping to supply a web-based interface that enables you to interactively generate the code you would like.
There are top features in yii are as follow:
Easy to install
Applications developed in yii loads very fast.
We can easily generated the User model and its CRUD
Working with form and its validation is one of the essential stuff for any website.
Every part of yii framework is highly extensible
Security is an important feature for an application and yii provides a great feature for security.
MVC Pattern
Error Handling
Yii is a high performance web programming framework, meaning that it can be used for developing all kinds of Web applications using PHP. Its component-based architecture and sophisticated caching support, makes it suitable for developing large – scale application such as forums, portals, content management system, E-commerce projects and so on. For More details Visit our website: Yii training in Ahmedabad
WordPress Framework
WordPress is a framework as well as a framework for web development. Its an open source software written in PHP. WordPress currently shares around 40% of the all open source softwares landscapes. WordPress is basically a software that manages content people put on their websites. It is super flexible and can be extended by using plugins.
Here Some top features of WordPress Framework:
Show/Hide Things Using Screen Options
Move,Add or Delete Dashboard Widgets
Paste URL to make links in Visual Editor
Accessibility Mode for Widgets
Priview Themes Without Activating Them
Edit Images in WordPress
Split Single Post into Multiple Pages
Embed Links, Videos, and Multimedia
Hidden Secret Options Page in WordPress
Markdown and Keyword Shortcuts Help you Write Faster
The platform is simple to use and thanks to plenty of theme builders it can be customized in a variety of ways for everything from blogs, to portfolio sites, to e-commerce. Themes are the element that take WordPress to the next level, giving almost anyone of any skill level, the ability to create a site that doesn’t look like a basic template. For More details Visit our website: WordPress Training in Ahmedabad with 100% Job Guarantee.
Typo3 is a free and open source web content management system written in PHP. Typo3 is along with Dhrupal, Joomla and WordPress, among the most popular content management systems worldwide, however it is more widespread in Europe than in other regions.
Typo3 is a free and open source CMS platform. It is possible to create sites of different size, from small ones to enterprise. One more thing is that the TYPO3 extensions demand more server Parameters for the fast server running. Typo3 is exceedingly adaptable so you can utilize one topic for the entire site or outline each page influencing youe web to extended one of a kind.
Here is a list of top Features of Typo3 Framework:
Smart Content Management
Massively Multisite and Multilingual
Digital Marketing Enabled
Open, Extensible, Customizable
Professional Open Source
Universal Frontend User Experience
Secure, Performant, Scalable
Easy of Use
Runs Everywhere
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Drupal Framework
Drupal is free, open source software that can be used by individuals or grops of users – even those lacking technical skills – to easily create and manage many types of Web sites. The application includes a content management plateform and a development framework.
Drupal is a CMS to build the customized website for business lies from personal blogs, community websites, forums discussions to E-commerce solutions. Across the worldwide, many of the developers are using Drupal CMS for the development to provide the extreme flexible and comprehensive online solutions to their clients.
Here is some features of drupal framework:
Limitless custom Functionality
Interactive custom design
Endless entires of Products & categories
Easy product browsing management
Custom implementation of search options
Maintanance of customer accounts
Allow to customize shopping cart and checkout
Newsletter subscription
Third party integration with ebay
MeanStack Framework
Today another very common stack is the MEAN stack. MEAN stands for MongoDB, Express, AngularJS and Node.JS. It ideal with a full stack JavaScript solution for building websites and web applications. From the database to the back-end and the front-end code, everything is written using JavaScript.From client to server to database, MEAN stack and shows how to create a simple bucket list application.
MEAN is a user-friendly stack which is the ideal solution for building dynamic websites and applications. This free and open-source stack offers a quick and organized method for creating rapid Prototypes for web- based applications.
MEAN is comprised of four different technologies:
MongoDB express is a schemaless NOSQL database systemExpress JS is a framework used to build web applications in Node
AngularJS is a JavaScript framework developed by Google
Node.js is a server side JavaScript execution environment
Here some Features of MEANstack Framework:
MEAN makes the switching between client and server easier
Highly Flexible
MEAN uses JSON
Cost effective
High Speed and Reusability
Open Source and Cloud Compatible
FullStack Framework
A full-stack web application is made up of two portions: a front end and the backend. Every web application that is accessed from a server can be considered a full-stack web application. Likely, a Full Stack Web Framework is a framework that supports the development of Front end interface, back end services, and databases.
A full-stack framework is a framework that attempts to provide nearly everything from web serving to database management right down to HTML generation that a developer could possibly need to build an application. It likely includes components that may not be needed by the majority of applications, but having them available makes it easier to integrate new features. For More details Visit our website: FullStack Training in Ahmedabad
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