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Nowadays, every company is targeting to create a high-quality web solution within a short period of time. To put it into practice, the developers community is able to choose from many JavaScript libraries and frameworks and debates to find the best one. If we look at Vue.js and ReactJS, at Codica...

Google Chrome Dev Summit is held yearly, and it’s an opportunity for the Chrome team to provide updates on their latest work, share plans and get feedback from the community. At the same time, it’s equally a chance for everyone involved in web development to find out about the trends first hand...

Nowadays, web developers are able to access ready-made solutions instead of writing the functions from scratch, which of course has great positive impact on the speed of development. When we look at Ruby from this point of view, it stands out due to extensive libraries called Ruby gems. They offer...

Mobile usage takes a huge part of our lives. Checking smartphones at least several times a day has become a routine for most of us. The below statistics show the global trendline of mobile data consumption between Q2 2013 and Q2 2018. Source: Ericsson mobility record According to Ericsson Mobile...

Why startups use Ruby on Rails? Do you know what Github, Dribbble, and Shopify have in common? Being monsters in their niches now, all of them used great opportunities of Ruby on Rails for kick-starting. Why do so many startups and solid companies choose and continue using RoR as their technology...

Remote work: a growing global trend No matter how we call remote work - telecommuting, offshore work or outsourcing, it’s rapidly gaining ground all over the world. With such factors as a growing desire to be independent and easier than ever communication from any point of the world, it’s not...

What is a PWA: definition and facts You might be wondering what a Progressive Web Application is. Progressive Web Apps are web applications that load like usual websites but suggest such user options as working offline, push notifications, and device hardware access. Traditionally these features...

What is Agile and why should anyone care? Agile methodology is a popular and more recent approach in software and web development, and it has a number of benefits if compared to the traditional development process. In this article, we will talk about introducing Agile approach in our work. We will...

At Codica, we apply various software development methodologies, depending on a project needs and customer’s preferences. We decided to create a series of articles devoted to the project development approaches we work with, to show you our approach and provide a glimpse of our working processes.

Let’s face it: every year is bringing more and more changes. For instance, could anyone expect remote work to become quite a common thing in 2018? I bet, you couldn’t even fancy that ten years ago. According to the Freelancers Union, 35% of the U.S. workforce - 55 million people - were freelancers...

So, you want to start a new project from scratch, and you’re looking for the best web development platform. When it comes to web programming languages, it’s not that easy to make a choice which complies with your requirements. In the following article, we're going to compare Ruby vs. PHP in 2018...