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📚 6 development articles from SitePoint - July

We've been working hard to provide developers with useful knowledge and unique viewpoints on SitePoint, and would love to show you some of our top articles from June.

Learn to Design and Animate in 3D with Zdog

There’s a cool JavaScript library that names like Chris Gannon, Val Head, and CodePen are all raving about. You can also find it on Product Hunt, where it’s been doing rather well. The library is none other than Dave DeSandro‘s Zdog.

➤ Read Learn to Design and Animate in 3D with Zdog

How to Plot Charts in Python with Matplotlib

You generate a huge amount of data on a daily basis. A critical part of data analysis is visualization. A variety of graphing tools have developed over the past few years. Given the popularity of Python as a language for data analysis, this tutorial focuses on creating graphs using a popular Python library — Matplotlib.

➤ Read How to Plot Charts in Python with Matplotlib

4 Signs It’s a Bad Idea to Quit Your Job

Edwarden, a developer and StackExchange user, wanted advice. His boss yelled at him for requesting a promotion in the future. Or more specifically, asking for advice on the best process for receiving a promotion. Edwarden exceeded his manager’s expectations. Other managers were also very happy with his performance as well. His manager also knew what Edwarden wanted to discuss ahead of time. It didn’t matter.

➤ Read 4 Signs It’s a Bad Idea to Quit Your Job

10+ Top Vue.js Tools & Libraries

Vue continues to grow in popularity and is rapidly being adopted by many developers, and Vue.js tools are popping up everywhere. This is not without reason: Vue’s shallow learning curve, clear functionality-driven structure, and excellent documentation make it easy for novices to pick it up, and for more experienced developers to make a switch from other frameworks like React or Angular.

➤ Read 10+ Top Vue.js Tools & Libraries

An Introduction to Cloudflare Workers

Cloud computing in its various incarnations — SaaS, PaaS, IaaS — has had big successes. Some of us still recall the $212 million purchase of PaaS provider Heroku in 2010, which at that time was — architecturally speaking — little more than a high-level deployment layer. It had a very posh gem for smooth and easy deployment of apps and frameworks like RoR, Python or Node apps running on Amazon’s infrastructure. The concept of Serverless Computing was born.

➤ Read An Introduction to Cloudflare Workers

A Beginner’s Guide to Feathers.js

Feathers is built on top of Express, a minimalist web framework for Node.js. If you’ve completed the tutorials demonstrated in the links, you’ll realize that it’s quite tiring building RESTful APIs using just Express. With Feathers, most of the repetitive work is already done for you. You only need to focus on configuring and customizing code. Let’s dive into the code and learn how this web framework works.

➤ Read A Beginner’s Guide to Feathers.js

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That's it for this month. If you're looking for more, check out our June roundup. Let us know what you'd like to see more of in the comments!

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