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For those who enjoy playing board games, here’s a randomizer that lets you randomize starting places for each player from a pool of options. This is also optimized for a 6-player Game of Thrones session.

Many of you know that my team and I have been working hard for the last couple months on a new open source framework to enable client-side streaming from Kafka. I’m excited to announce that it’s ready!

Sometimes, we need to display the same basic HTML, but with some customized data interspersed here and there. The Handlebars.js library is perfect for this. It takes less than 5 minutes to learn how to use this simple and efficient templating tool.

Let’s figure out how we can create an interactive interface that converts a Gregorian Month and Day to a Persian Month and Day, and vice versa. In the process, we’ll review some of the key Javascript concepts and methods for DOM manipulation.

Sometimes, forms are too long and can be intimidating to complete. The go-to solution is to create a multi-step form, where the form is broken up into smaller sections that the user completes progressively.

Let’s say your React application has a smart component (i.e. the component has its own state), and you want a child component to be able to not only access, but actually modify that parent component’s state.