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  • Making Tetris with Svelte: part six - Next Piece, Levels, Lines, Score, and Statistics

    May 1, 2020 svelte

    Now that our game is chugging along it's time to update all our display modules with data-driven displays.

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  • Making Tetris with Svelte: part five - Automatic Falling and Clearing Lines

    Apr 25, 2020 svelte

    It's part five... time to get that automatic downward movement of our pieces in motion as well as clearing completed lines.

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  • Making Tetris with Svelte: part four - SRS Guidelines: Spawn Orientation, Basic Rotation, and Wall Kicks

    Apr 21, 2020 svelte

    In this fourth part of the series the Super Rotation System is added to control how the pieces behave.

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  • Making Tetris with Svelte: part three - Player Movement and Collision Detection

    Apr 17, 2020 svelte

    This third part of the Tetris tutorial is all about controlling the piece on the board with the keyboard.

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  • Making Tetris with Svelte: part two - The Board and Pieces

    Apr 14, 2020 svelte

    In the second installment we get our board and a piece rendered using the HTML canvas element.

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  • Making Tetris with Svelte: part one - The Basic Set Up

    Apr 10, 2020 svelte

    In this first installment we are just getting our Svelte app up and running for a Tetris clone.

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  • Fun with APIs - Building a Pokedex Using Svelte

    Feb 20, 2020 svelte

    We'll be using the PokeAPI to make a Pokedex Svelte app.

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  • Building A Weather App With Svelte, Tailwind, and Netlify

    Feb 20, 2020 svelte

    In this tutorial, we’ll be building a Weather app in Svelte. The app features a 5-day forecast as well as an interactive city search.

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  • Building A Currency Converter With Svelte

    Feb 7, 2020 svelte

    A quick currency converter app using Svelte and the Exchange Rates API.

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  • React Tic Tac Toe... in Svelte

    Jan 16, 2020 svelte

    In this tutorial, we’ll be building a Tic Tac Toe game in Svelte. By the end, you’ll have a working Tic Tac Toe game complete with running history and time travel.

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  • User Authentication with PassportJS and a Polka server

    Jan 3, 2020 authentication

    Passport is authentication middleware for Node.js that can be unobtrusively dropped in to almost any web application.

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  • Introduction to Polka (an alternative to Express.js)

    Dec 17, 2019 polka

    Polka is an alternative to Express.js that is more minimal and performant. It's simply a native HTTP server with added support for routing, middleware, and sub-applications. That's it!

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