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How to Create Accessible Modals and Pop-ups Using HTML, CSS, and Minimal JavaScript

Creating pop-ups and modals on your site can be a complicated process. And it often requires a lot of boilerplate code to get started. But the real challenge...

How to Build a Browser-Based PDF Redaction Tool Using JavaScript

PDF documents are frequently used to share invoices, contracts, reports, legal records, customer documents, financial statements, and internal business files....

How to Implement PayPal in a Microservice Architecture Using NestJS, gRPC, and Docker

In this tutorial, you'll build a production-ready PayPal payment service using NestJS microservices. Along the way, you'll learn how to isolate payment logic...

Intro to Shaders: JavaScript and p5.js Course for Beginners

Are you ready to unlock the true rendering power of your computer and create breathtaking visuals? We just published a new course on the freeCodeCamp.org...

When It Makes Sense To “Block” The Main Thread

The common rule of thumb is to never “block” the browser’s main thread when running JavaScript tasks. But is this a hard rule? Victor Ayomipo describes a use case he encountered...

No, People Don’t Want More AI In Their Life

Many companies assume everyone craves new AI features. But the reality is that most people don't want more AI — at least not in the way most AI leaders envision it. Brought...

Design system contracts: the component lives in neither Figma nor code

The Observer Design Pattern Handbook: Event-Driven Architecture & Domain-Driven Design in Dart

Every application, at some point, has to deal with a fundamental challenge: something happens, and several other things need to react to it. A user logs in,...

AI just called design’s bluff

From vibe to specs: reclaiming the design process with SAID framework

Designing with web standards: The playbook for this AI moment

How Neural Machine Translation Works: Build Your Own Translation App with React Native and QVAC

For the past 10 years, we've experienced a massive improvement in translation technologies. We went from robotic-like translations to systems that not only...

Master Full-Stack Mobile Development with React Native

Do you want to get into mobile development and build cross-platform applications? We just published a comprehensive new course on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube...

How to Evaluate AI Agents with an LLM-as-a-Judge Harness in Python

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to evaluate a local AI agent with a simple, repeatable evaluation harness. The harness runs the agent against a set of...

How to Build an Internal Developer Platform: A Complete Guide to Backstage, ArgoCD, and Crossplane

Every fast-growing engineering team eventually hits the same wall. A developer needs a new staging environment, so they file a ticket. The platform team...

A Beginner's Guide to Python: Hands-On Projects to Get You Coding

Have you been wanting to learn how to code but found it a bit too overwhelming or confusing? We just published a brand new course on the freeCodeCamp.org...

The “mocked, then loved” AirPods effect

How to Kiss a Cannibal

AI systems are demanding new interaction models. Are designers ready?

Designers are sharpening knives for the wrong fight