This series is all about creating components from other components. PCF maybe the best choice but it isn't always enabled and requires a different skillset.

The first in the series is all about creating a stack of notifications (very much like how this community site shows notifications).

In this article, we will learn how to get the first and last date of a month for a user selected date in the DatePicker control. There can be many use cases for such utility which provides first date and last date of the month corresponding to a user provided date. Example of such use cases can be Billing and Invoicing Systems, Event Scheduling, Report Generation, Due Dates and Deadlines for task or project management applications, Interest Calculation, Subscription Renewals.

This article shows how to obtain the number of records in a gallery (or a datasource) without asking user to scroll all the way to the bottom. It overcomes the limitation of 100 records count.