Checkout this Historic Rhode Island Seaport when Traveling to New England

1 — More Parking, Less Traffic

Bristol, Rhode Island is the charm of Newport without the crowds. Newport is infamously known for its huge crowds, narrow streets and lack of parking. The visitor parking lots are usually packed full during the summer, and the street parking is restricted to residents only. If you’re lucky enough to find metered parking, it’s limited to 2 hours. This means you’ll usually have to resort to a private lot in excess of $20/day to park in Newport.

Finding parking in Bristol is much easier. The town provides a lot of on-street parking that is open to visitors, and most of it is free. There are several public parking lots in the historic downtown area. However, Bristol is not a ghost town. Home to Roger Williams University, Bristol has just the right amount of bustle where you can park, dine and enjoy the local scene without waiting too long or spending too much. …

Create a Vue Dashboard starter using Vuetify

Lately I’ve been playing with Vue & Vuetify a lot so I decided to share this dashboard starter template. This may be helpful to kick start your next “admin” project, or as a basis for a creating simple collapsing sidebar layout with Vuetify.

Features

- Vue 2.x, Vuetify 2.2.x, Vue Router, Material Design Icons
- Light/Dark Theme Switcher
- Collapsing/Toggleable Sidebar
- Material Design Icons

Vue App and Router
I started with a typical Vue app and router set-up.

const routes = [
    { path:'/', component: Home },
    { path:'/detections', component: Page },
    { path:'/comp', component: Page },
    { path:'/customers', component: Page },
    { path:'/orders', component: Page },
    { path:'/settings', component: Page }…

A simple linter, validator & formatter using Vue.js 2

As a developer, one of my favorite go-to tools is jsonlint.com. I like it so much that I decided to make my own JSON Linter using Vue.js.

The Vue App

const app = new Vue ({
  el: '#app',
  data: {
    jsonstr: "",
    jsonerror: ""
  },
  computed: {
    prettyFormat: function() {
        // reset error
        this.jsonerror = "";
        let jsonValue = "";
        try {
            // try to parse
            jsonValue = JSON.parse(this.jsonstr);
        }
        catch(e) {
            this.jsonerror = JSON.stringify(e.message)
            var textarea = document.getElementById("jsonText");
            if (this.jsonerror.indexOf('position')>-1) {
                // highlight error position
                var positionStr = this.jsonerror.lastIndexOf('position') + 8;
                var posi = parseInt(this.jsonerror.substr(positionStr,this.jsonerror.lastIndexOf('"')))
                if (posi >= 0) {
                    textarea.setSelectionRange(posi,posi+1);
                }
            }
            return "";
        }
        return JSON.stringify(jsonValue, …

Toast notifications, spinners and iOS-style switches

Good ‘ol Bootstrap has been around since 2013, but never before has it offered up some of the new UX features & components in the latest 4.2.1 release. These new components help improve one of the most important aspects of UX: Visual Feedback.

This isn’t the feedback the User provides like a suggestion box. This is the visual and contextual feedback provided by the UI, to keep the User informed.

Toast Notifications

The Bootstrap Alert component has never quite lived up to expectations. …

How to use Bootstrap 4 with Angular 7

I’ve recently seen a lot of questions on Stack Overflow with developers trying to figure out how to use the latest Bootstrap 4 with Angular 7. Here’s what to do if you’re facing this challenge.

1. Add Bootstrap to package.json

npm install bootstrap --save

This will add the following lines to the “dependencies” section of the apps’ package.json file…

"dependencies": {
  ..
  "jquery": "^3.3.1",
  "bootstrap": "^4.1.3",
  "popper.js": "^1.14.3"
}

So the package.json will look something like this…

2. Add Bootstrap to angular.json

You’ll also need to add Bootstrap to “apps” styles and scripts in the Angular JSON config file…

"apps": [{
  ...,  "styles": [
     "styles.css".
     "../node_modules/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css"
  ],
  "scripts": [
     "../node_modules/jquery/dist/jquery.min.js",
     "../node_modules/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.min.js" …

How to “install” and use Bootstrap 4 with ReactJs

I’ve recently seen a lot of questions on Stack Overflow with developers trying to figure out how to use the latest Bootstrap 4 with React. Here are a few options for you if you’re facing this challenge. All the options below are based on a simple ReactJs app using create-react-app.

Bootstrap CSS only

Option 1

If you only require the bootstrap.css, the easiest method is to reference Bootstrap on CDN (or a local relative path) on the HEAD section of the create-react-app public/index.html file. This will include Bootstrap CSS globally in your app (on all “pages”) since index.html is the React App container.

Option 2

Or, you can import Bootstrap CSS in the React App using JavaScript. For this method you will need to include Bootstrap in the dependencies section of package.json…

Custom themes for Bootstrap 4 with CSS or SASS

There various reasons to customize Bootstrap. You may want to:

• Change the existing Bootstrap styles such as colors, fonts, or borders
• Change the Bootstrap grid layout such as breakpoints or gutter widths
• Extend Bootstrap classes with new custom classes (ie: btn-custom)

Whatever the reason is, there are 2 ways to customize Bootstrap. I will start with the easier, less robust method using CSS, and then explain the more advanced method using SASS.

1. Simple CSS Overrides

This method works by defining CSS rules that match Bootstrap’s CSS rules which creates a style “override”. …

Understanding the Flexbox Powered Bootstrap 4 Grid

This is the 2018 follow-up to my original “How the Bootstrap Grid Really Works” article that was based on Bootstrap 3.x, and Part 4 of my complete “How to… Bootstrap” article.

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What is the Bootstrap “Grid”?

The Bootstrap Grid System is used for layout, specifically Responsive Layouts. Understanding how it works is vital to understanding Bootstrap. The Grid is made up of groupings of Rows & Columns inside 1 or more Containers.

The Bootstrap Grid can be used alone, without the Bootstrap JavaScript and other CSS Components. You just need to download and reference the “bootstrap-grid.css” which contains the Grid and Flexbox classes. …