Afternoon all, I'm Chris and I started the Coding Concepts Series, writing about programming topics which I find interesting.
As Dev.to now officially support 'Series' I thought I'd celebrate with a combination post!
I've linked to each individual post, but at the top and bottom of the article you will now find cool little circles linking to each post within a series, hopefully there will be a way to style them soon!
How to create Series
If you were wondering how to create a Series, you need to add
series: [series name]to the front-matter part of your blog post header.
See the editor guide below for more details.
Series Posts
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A term called Cargo Cult Programming and it really struck a chord with me. Read more about it above.
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Cyclomatic complexity I feel is a very valuable tool in a developer's arsenal, read more about it above.
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Reflection, what is it? What does it do? How to use it? Read more about it here
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Anonymous methods (The FAT ARROW =>)
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Generics can be hard to grasp, that's why I started the series writing about what they were, read more about them above.
Thanks to everyone that's read, and commented on the series. I hope you've found it useful, I'll be looking at expanding the series with more posts this year, if there is anything you think would make a great post, let me know in the comments below.
Top comments (15)
If like me you were wondering how to create one, you need to add the
series: [series name]to the front-matter par of your postRef: dev.to/p/editor_guide
Release: dev.to/ben/changelog-create-series...
Thanks to both you and Chris for this tip. One of the things I love about Dev.to so far vs Medium (for example) is the increase in the ratio of informative / verbose.
It seems here people just get to the helpful bits and it’s awesome. Makes me want to engage more.
Thanks again guys!
Cheers Antony, Completely forgot about showing that. You mind if I add that into the body of the post?
Feel free to!
I just discovered it today and it's incredibly useful! One question tho, how do you arrange the series order in thr table? Mine seems to swap the first and second series..
I have the same question. How do I order the postings of the series?
Did anyone ever figure this out? Very annoying to have Part 5 show up before Part 5!
Haha, I Would have thought it was date posted, I'll check the repo and get back to you on that asap
It's possible I created them out of order. I definitely published them in order though,so my bet is it goes by create date.
Sorry for taking so long to get back to this. Ok, so I've found it.
in app\views\articles_collection.html.erb
ln 10:
<% @collection.articles.published.order("published_at ASC").each_with_index do |article, i| %>Thanks Chris.
It's also worth noting that the circle icons won't appear until you have more than one post configured in a series.
I'd like to say that UX is not the best, the gray circles dont make enough sign that it's something you should use. So I suppose just putting the link with cards to the bottom of the page will work better from perspective of views, rather those native feature.
It seems like the design isn't fully implemented yet, a data-preload-image tag is used for each circle, however this doesn't look it does anything at the moment.
The great thing since going open source, is we as a community will be able to help drive this, so feel free to check out the repo, and if you can/want add a P.R or add some comments!
If you're a bit lost like me, just know that Jekyll front matter is added to your post in the below way. Add this before the body content of your post and it will show the series. You might need to refresh a couple of times sometimes.