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A Codekit Review

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CodeKit review

Checking whether a code already does great sometimes frustrates web developer, since they must search through a long line of code which can hurt their eyes. But today there are many applications that can help them avoiding this kind of situation, one of the latest apps is Codekit, this programming tool can also be applied in many devices such as Mac, OS X, iOS 6+, Windows 7+ and Android. So, whatever your device is applying CodeKit can be one of your good choices.

What is CodeKit?

Codekit is a task manager that helps you to automate code compiling for popular preprocessor languages. You also can easily deploy code as Codekit for all intents and purposes manages projects akin to Grunt.js and Gulp.js and works with Bower. It is known as a more comfortable platform to many users as it only requires for dragging and dropping approach. In fact, setting up a project requires simply drag and dropping a folder onto Codekit.

Who is Codekit for and is it worth it?

CodeKit is aimed for doing everyman’s task manager. For those whose search for using Sass or Less will probably love Codekit as it focuses on coding and not setup. For the first try you may find that Grunt is quite frustrating. Later, when CodeKit 2 was released, it feels a bit different from its previous one as its more polished and powerful. Moreover, its fun and quick to use. Here are some detail reviews about CodeKit:

Final thoughts

  • CodeKit 2 feels like brand new product compared 1.0
  • Libsass is super fast Sass compiling!
  • Massively improved server.
  • Cleaner user interface.
  • Bower Package Management
  • Animated CSS injection
  • Easy project configuration
  • No more file watch limit
  • Compass is built in and can be manually configured
  • Codekit Config files can be distributed with project
  • Very low learning curve!
  • Faster than Codekit 1 or Prepros 4
  • External encoders
  • Less resource intensive when idling than Grunt
  • Easy to read Error Log

Cons

  • Must make current project active
  • Server isn’t as robust as Prepross or GhostLab
  • Grunt is free and once you get over the configuration hump, more flexible and powerful.
  • Trouble shooting esoteric errors will probably land you at my blog
  • No built in FTP support

How to Build API in 10 Minutes with Amazon

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How to build an API in 10 minutes

As web developer or people who often deal with programming, building an API will surely take your time. Moreover, if you would like to connect your software to application programming interface, maybe you need a brilliantly designed, coder-friendly interface. Besides, if you need something to do with maintaining all the servers a sturdy API capable of handling millions of requests, we understand as sometimes servers are annoying, even for cloud services.

You choose them, provision them, configure them, deploy them, monitor them, meter them. You also the one who determine when to add or remove them but still you need to pay what you used and you didn’t. The explosion of software as a service in recent years has paved the way for the concept of “servers” to be someone else’s problem. But there are several requirements that should be fulfilled when someone wants to build an API in a server. Many of programmers find that you are going to fight with servers before to do an API.

If you dislike the situation and want to find a better way, you can try another technique which is quite simple and fast.

Amazon

For those who hate the idea of handling their own hardware can have a new tool to help them, for about one year ago, Amazon web Services has been released. The good news about this app is that it is not only cheap to stand up an API with API Gateway but it is also quick work, since it only takes ten minutes if you’re copy-pasting, and half an hour if you’re a good typist.

The work can be done into three steps:

  1. Write a request handler
  2. Install it as a Lambda
  3. Create an API in API Gateway, and connect the Lambda to a resource and method.

You can apply the above techniques and hopefully, it will save your time more than before.