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Introducing Photino: Create Desktop Applications with Web UIs
Last updated: Thursday, January 23, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2021 - May/June
If you use Electron but find it makes a pretty big application, try using open source Photino, which uses .NET 5 for the host application instead of Node.js. Your apps for mobile or cross-platform can be lighter and faster.
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Tailwind CSS: An Introduction
Last updated: Thursday, January 23, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2021 - May/June
Tailwind CSS helps you get to the fun part of building an app by using utility CSS classes. Use Tailwind CSS to help you quickly prototype your design without having to write a ton of CSS.
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Demystifying React
Last updated: Sunday, October 5, 2025
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2018 - September/October
In "Demystifying React," Milton Abe clarifies React's nature as a JavaScript library focused on building scalable, performant user interfaces rather than a full framework like Angular. Milton highlights React's key concepts—JSX, components, state, props, one-way data binding, lifecycle methods, and virtual DOM—and demonstrates how they collaborate to enable efficient UI development. Through a step-by-step CRUD example, he illustrates React’s practical usage, emphasizing best practices and the advantages of controlling component state manually. Milton ultimately conveys that React offers a powerful, flexible, and maintainable approach to modern web app development.