As programmers, when we finish with our job, we like to, well, program. From Hackathons to side projects, we love building things outside of work. Sometimes, though, it can be hard to come up with ideas for what to make next. When that happens, it is often helpful to learn…

Visual Studio Code is a simple yet highly extensible code editor. As developers, we spend a lot of time here-which is why it’s so important to get the most out of our editors and streamline and automate where possible. As we enter 2021, I’ve compiled a list of extensions that…

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You could say that writing code is easier than writing about code. Code basically works or it doesn’t, while natural language can fail or succeed in all kinds of different ways. …

If you have been a ReactJS developer for a couple of years, you probably had to refactor your code to use React Hooks. React Hooks has been introduced since the 16.8 version (February 2019, documentation) and lets you use state and other React features without writing a class. This blog…

On March 9th, as part of our celebrations for International Women’s Day, our Developer Relations team at Vonage hosted an online event on DevRel career paths. You can watch the entire panel discussion on the video below. Our panelists Jessica West, Sarah Thiam, and Shuba Swaminathan talked about their…

A lot of the time as developers working as part of a team, we’re used to all members of that team being conversant with the same languages, tech stack, and set of tools. Depending on the context, that might involve working with more than one actual programming language. If you’re…

Here at Vonage, we’ve written many articles on how to send an SMS message. However, sometimes you don’t want to send an SMS message this instant: you want to send it in the future. …

Virtual technical conferences always seemed to make perfect sense. Who better than a bunch of technologists to find a way to deliver the content and conversations of a traditional professional conference, without the difficulty of travel or the overhead of seating and feeding thousands of attendees? …