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Development

How to Build a Barcode Generator Using JavaScript (Step-by-Step)

If you’ve ever worked on something like an inventory system, billing dashboard, or even a small internal tool, chances are you’ve needed to generate barcodes...

Bhavin Sheth - freecodecamp

How to Build a Full-Stack SaaS App with TanStack Start, Elysia, and Neon

Most full-stack React tutorials stop at "Hello World." They show you how to render a component, maybe fetch some data, and call it a day. But when you sit...

Magnus Rødseth - freecodecamp

UX

A Practical Guide To Design Principles

Design principles with references, examples, and methods for quick look-up. Brought to you by Design Patterns For AI Interfaces, **friendly video courses on UX** and design...

Vitaly Friedman - smashingmagazine

Design

The Bad Website Club is Running a Free Responsive Web Design Bootcamp Based on freeCodeCamp

Hi everyone! We (Jess, Carmen, and Eda) are excited to announce the next installation of our free and online bootcamp. We support learners as they work their...

Eda Eren - freecodecamp

Mobile

How to Build AI-Powered Flutter Applications with Genkit Dart – Full Handbook for Devs

There's a particular kind of frustration that every mobile developer has felt at some point. You're building a Flutter application, and you want to add an AI...

Atuoha Anthony - freecodecamp

Other

How to Build Reusable Architecture for Large Next.js Applications

Every Next.js project starts the same way: you run npx create-next-app, write a few pages, maybe add an API route or two, and things feel clean. Then the...

Abisoye Alli-Balogun - freecodecamp

How to Build and Deploy a Fitness Tracker Using Python Django and PythonAnywhere - A Beginner Friendly Guide

If you've learned some Python basics but still feel stuck when it comes to building something real, you're not alone. Many beginners go through tutorials,...

Prabodh Tuladhar - freecodecamp

Lessons from 15,031 hours of coding live on Twitch with Chris Griffing [Podcast #214]

Today Quincy Larson interviews Chris Griffing is a software engineer and prolific streamer of live coding on Twitch. He spent 10 years as a "snowboard bum"...

Beau Carnes - freecodecamp

Automate Your Sales Pipeline with Claude and Obsidian

For many software engineers and SaaS founders, writing code is the easy part. But the marketing and sales grind feels like an uphill battle. If you’d rather...

Beau Carnes - freecodecamp

AI Tools for Developers – OpenClaw, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, CodeRabbit, Gemini CLI

Using AI tools is an important part of being a software developer. We just posted a course on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel that will teach you how to...

Beau Carnes - freecodecamp

How to Build AI Agents That Can Control Cloud Infrastructure

Cloud infrastructure has become deeply programmable over the past decade. Nearly every platform exposes APIs that allow developers to create applications,...

Manish Shivanandhan - freecodecamp

The Joy Of A Fresh Beginning (April 2026 Wallpapers Edition)

With the new month just around the corner, could there be a better occasion to freshen up your desktop? If you’re looking for some unique and inspiring wallpapers to accompany you...

Cosima Mielke - smashingmagazine