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S - Single-Responsibility Principle (SRP) is the first design principal covered by SOLID principals.

SOLID is an Object oriented design principal. It stands for:

• S - Single-responsiblity Principle
• O - Open-closed Principle
• L - Liskov Substitution Principle
• I - Interface Segregation Principle
• D - Dependency Inversion Principle

The principals were originally created and promoted by Robert Martin (aka Uncle Bob).

SRP simply states that Classes and functions should only have a single responsibility. This sounds...

I recently picked up 3d modelling after quite a few years away. I have not used Blender before so learning the basics involved many seaches and skimming videos to fine what I needed. This post is a quick guide to getting started with blender that I have created from my notes.

Hopefully it will enable you to get started more quickly than I did!

Navigation

Firstly if you're on a (mac) laptop without a numpad then you will want to enable numpad emulation. This will allow you to use the normal numbers to navigate...

When I first used Material UI, I struggled with a few concepts. I've written this quick overview to help get my head around it, and hopefully guide others to a quicker start.

I'm going to make a new project and then create some (horrible) styles!

Create the project and add MUI

Create a project and install the Material UI package

npx create-react-app material-ui-playground 

cd material-ui-playground 

yarn add @material-ui/core 

Clean up the initial templates

Remove some unused contents (import of the styles)...

Javascript contains an Internationalization API that you can use to format numbers to a user's locale. Setting the style to percent is all that is needed.

Intl.NumberFormat("en-GB", { style: "percent"}).format(1.2345); // => "123%" 

Note: A value of 1 will return 100% because 1x anything is 100%!

1 * 100 = 100; // 100%  1.5 * 100 = 150; // 150%  

To specify the decimal places use minimumFractionDigits and maximumFractionDigits to give you more visual control.

Intl.NumberFormat("en-GB", { style: "percent",...

Javascript's Internationalization API allows you to format currency. It takes the locale and options to configure the currency we're using. The options require the style to be set to currency and a currency option to specify the unit type, as this is returned as part of the result.

Intl.NumberFormat("LOCALE", { style: "currency", currency: "CURRENCY UNIT"}).format(VALUE); // => "€1.23" 

The following example formats a EUR (Euro) currency of the value 1.2345 into a en-GB (English - Great Britain) format.

Intl...

With the auth and state setup from part 1 of "Strava API activity sync with Axios, React, Redux & Saga" we can now progress to getting the activities and displaying them in a table.

Overview

Now we have tokens we can start to get the data from Strava. The steps we will take cover the following:

• Adding moment to handle date based checks
• Create constants for getting activities
• Create the reducers to handle the results of getting the activities
• Using Sagas to retrieve the activities from Strava's API, including...

Why?

I've been using Strava for over 5 years to track my activities, and more recently analyse them too. Towards the end of 2019 I realised that I was getting close to running 1,000km in a year, so I started a basic spreadsheet to track the data so that I could plan my runs accordingly and hit my goal. The spreadsheet was a basic setup that just plotted distance run vs distance I needed to run, but it got me to the end of the year, and I managed to pass my target. As 2020 began I started to update the spreadsheet...

To get a user's prefered locale we can query the navigator.language.

const locale = navigator.language; console.log(locale); // => "fr" 

To change your language in Chrome go to chrome://settings/languages and add/edit the list of languages.

To get the full list of user languages we can use navigator.languages. This returns an array of locales in order of preference.

console.log(navigator.languages); // => ["fr", "en", "en-US"] 

Note: The locale value from navigator.language is just the first item from the...

When building a React app there are a number of ways you can styles your components and layout. These range from plain CSS classes on elements through to fully integrated style libraries that handle building the styles and creating class names for you.

This is by no means an exhaustive list, but the key areas are:

• Inline styles
• CSS
• Sass build and imported as CSS
• Sass classes imported as a module
• Libraries such as Tailwind which are entirely utility class based systems
• Libraries such as Bootstrap where utility...

If you have ever used JavaScript variables then the concept of CSS variables should feel pretty familiar.

1. You set a variable
2. You use the variable

CSS variables follows this same pattern, but the language is slightly different.

body { --my-variable: red; } h1 { color: var(--my-variable); } 

What is happening here? Firstly we set the variables - essentially they are custom properties. We use -- before the variable name to make it a variable. Then we use the variable by using var(--variable-name).

<body...