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9 Game-Changing Tools That Every Remote Developer Can’t Live Without

Codersera — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 12:30:14 +0000

In this article, I am mentioning 9 game-changing tools that every remote developer can’t live without.

From coding to designing these tools will help you in every aspect of software development.

Here are 9 must-have remote development tools

GitHub:-

GitHub is a platform that hosts code by using Git for version control and collaboration.
Alongside hosting and reviewing code, here you can manage your projects and build software as well.
GitHub is the largest source code tools that take version control and put it on the cloud.
It also adds a beautiful interface on top of it.
Not only you can see past changes but also monitor everyone’s code.
Here you can ship new features quickly.
By using this platform you can create code better as a team.
With your GitHub account, you can browse as well as buy apps from the Github marketplace.
From flexible hosting to granular access control, GitHub has got your all security requirements covered.

Basecamp:-

Basecamp is a web-based software management tool.
It organizes tasks, collaborates with clients and gets things done.
It combines all the tools teams need in a single, straightforward package.
Basecamp also helps in allocating your time more efficiently.
It makes you work faster by allowing you to test new ideas.
Not only you can use Basecamp to make software but also discuss ideas and plan marketing campaigns.
Its a one-stop-shop for all the things team do together.
They provide a 30-day free trial. So go and try your hands on it.

Slack:-

Slack is a chat room platform where you can send messages and documents without using email.
It gives your team the power as well as alignment you need to do your best work.
It brings files into one place to add context to the conversations.
By using this platform you can make channels for your team where they can share their ideas.
Slack also supports voice and video calls from any conversations.
It provides a search bar by which you can easily search messages, files, and channels.
Nowadays big companies are saving their time with slack by securely collaborating across teams, departments, offices even countries.
Slack also integrates efficient 3rd party team tools like Google Hangouts, Travis CI and GitHub.
This helps you work within slack without having to read your emails.

Hubstaff:-

Hubstaff is a software that tracks employees’ activity levels with screenshots, reporting, and automated payments.
Track time whenever and wherever your team works with Hubstaff desktop or mobile apps
It generates the most accurate timesheet to easily invoice clients as well as pay your team.
With the help of Hubstaff, not only you can record employee hours but also view online reports to optimize your compony’s performance.
You can see work unfold in real-time with optional screenshots, app, and URL tracking.
Hubstaff also provides a GPS tracking feature. With this, not only your team can clock in and out from anywhere but also you will get better job costing scheduling and payments.
It helps you measure the time you spend on each task within a project.
Another big plus of Hubstaff is, allowing you to integrate directly into Basecamp.

InVision:-

InVision is a web and mobile mockup as well as a UI prototyping tool.
It synchronizes with a sketch.
InVision also lets you Iterate quickly, elevate quality and ship fast.
It allows you to collaborate, experiment and also test much more effectively and efficiently.
Here not only you can explore your team’s best ideas on a digital whiteboard but also get instant feedback on work in progress design.
Not only you can use boards to share initial goals and ideas but also show the user flow, and capture inspiration.
InVision quickly turns a design into powerful screen designs with intuitive vector-based design.
You can seamlessly navigate the entire design process in one place.

CodinGame:-

CodinGame is a technology company editing an online platform for developers.
It allows them to play with programming as well as to learn to code better with their online programming application.
Their online programming supports twenty-five programming languages.
You can discover new languages as well as algorithms, and tricks here.
It is a platform where you can practice your coding with automating video games.
CodinGame also works as a recruiting platform.
It allows developers to get noticed by companies.
Their approach has been designed to lead advance developers to the next level.

CodeChef:-

CodeChef is a competitive programming website.
It’s a non-profit educational initiative aimed that provide a platform to the students.
Here young software professionals can practice their programming skills through online contests.
Also, there is a coding program that aims to reach out to young students.
CodeChef organizes three programming contests every month.
In which first you need to signup then they provide their users to participate and compete.
Their contests are named with “The Long challenge” that is a 10-days long contest in which they feature 10 questions
the other one is “The Lunchtime Contest” which is for school students.

Appery.IO:-

Appery is a cloud-based mobile app builder.
You can use it to create apps for android or iOS.
It includes Apache Cordova, Ionic, and jQuery mobile with access to its built-in components.
As the builder runs in the cloud there is nothing to download and install.
To build UI, The Appery app builder includes a video editor using drag and drop components.
Appery auto-generate the code for these components.
You can connect to any REST API and use it in your app, instantly it will add a cloud database and backend to your app.
With the Appery plugin catalog, you can also add powerful functionality.
You can also create your own custome private plugins.

dev.to:-

dev.to is a community of coders and developers.
It is a platform where software developers write articles as well as take part in discussions.
They value supportive and constructive dialogues in the pursuit of great codes and career growth.
Their ecosystem spans from beginner to advanced developer. They welcome all.

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Resources to become a developer

Codersera — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 13:12:09 +0000

If you love developing applications and website. Here the major different resources that help you to become a developer. After completing your studies, what next to do now? A career as a developer is really very interesting and challenging.

Here, the article tells you about some resources which are really useful to your career as a developer.
Although, it is really important to give your 100% to your work and for that, the first resource is YOU and your self-discipline.
For coders also it is not easy to handle the stress and pain of failure or rejection, but being upset with this is not good. So these resources are to build yourself to the Top coder.

Click here to read complete article:- https://codersera.com/blog/%ef%bb%bfresources-to-become-a-developer/

Hire Freelancer Remote developer with Codersera

Codersera — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 12:43:42 +0000

Remote work is a working style that allows people to work outside of a traditional office atmosphere. It is based on the concept that work does not need to be done in a specific place to be performed successfully.

There has been a cultural pattern shift in what society considers to be an appropriate workplace and remote work has capitalized off of that newfound freedom.
Think out of the box!! Instead of commuting to an office each day to work from a designated desk, remote employees can perform their projects and exceed their goals wherever they please. In remote work, people have the flexibility to design their days so that their professional and personal lives can be experienced to their fullest potential and coexist peacefully.

Click here to complete reading this article:- https://codersera.com/blog/hire-freelancer-remote-developer-with-codersera/

A happy Struggle with React-Native-Web

Codersera — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 08:16:23 +0000

React-native-web is one of the most amazing ideas for UI developers, it makes a longtime dream in a reality: the ability to create an application that runs on both phones and browsers with just one codebase.

React-native-web helps us to write the same React code for both React and React Native.

It makes life much easier, and although it has it’s limitations and signs, it’s a great approach for building multi-platform apps.

Read more about this article:- https://codersera.com/blog/a-happy-struggle-with-react-native-web/

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Why Developer Become Frustrated

Codersera — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 13:08:20 +0000

In order to talk about why the developer becomes frustrated and companies can,t find talent, let’s start with their work. What makes their software project successful or imperfect (failure would be a wrong word I guess because there is always a scope of improving thing at any stage in development field)

Greatest “Cause of Frustration”

Fixing poor code issues:-

The thing that makes the most developer annoying is fixing the code. weather they write it themselves in the early stages or by some other colleague. The pain of fixing broken code gets double with the poor comments and refactoring codes and make it fresh and tidy. This could be a frustrating issue for anyone.

Finding bugs:-

This problem is related to the previous one. When it comes to finding bugs in the source code it’s more tricky than solving it. First, it takes a lot of time to locate it. And then it takes a lot of effort, energy to fix it.

Distressing Technical infrastructure:-

Unwisely and unhelpful technical infrastructure is also a pain point. What the developer can do only is to convert the broken, judged and outdated and not well-documented code in an inadequate form. Code comments that are either too general or sometimes too specific will also be going to be criticized by others.

Unclear Requirements:-

Developers are very particular about the task they do. They don’t like uncertainty in your requirements. And somewhat that is right after all requirement is the base on which developer going to create your project. They need to write code according to your requirements.

Those questioned with vogue and unrealistic project requirements as a source of stress, Particularly where those requirements are changing up to the last minute.

Maintaining past code:-

For developers maintaining and updating the code, they are working on for the years is tough. Developers need tp updated with the future scope all the work they did in the past. The challenge becomes more critical when they have to work on someone else codes who for now departed the company.

Running expo and raw react-native together

Codersera — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 12:57:02 +0000

Hello Glad to answer this question, about ejecting your expo app. Well, you might have been asked by your senior developer, or boss or you might have just heard it from someone but don’t exactly have a good acquaintance with it. In this article we’ll try to answer these questions, all of you might be dead curious to know this in the simplest way –

Why do we need to eject an expo app, although it gives us a tonne of features?
Can we use some modules which have native code with expo like pusher, react-native-modal, etc?
how to make expo and react native work together?
Let’s add a secret ingredient called expo-starter-kit to make all of this happen with a breeze.

Read this link: -https://codersera.com/blog/running-expo-react-native-together/