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Google Apps Scripts and Web Development Tutorials and Resources by Laurence Svekis
Laurence Svekis 
📘 Lesson 3 — Build Your First Google Apps Script Web App (HTML + APIs) Blog Post #3 in the Apps Script + APIs + Gemini Series Up until now, you’ve been running Apps Script functions from the editor or triggering them from Sheets and Docs. In this lesson, everything changes. You’ll build a real … Read more
🚀 Vibe Coding — Issue #2 Advanced Frontend Vibing: Ship Faster With AI, Without Shipping Bugs JavaScript • HTML • CSS • Rapid Prototyping • Iteration Loops • Testing Discipline If Issue #1 was about the mindset, Issue #2 is about execution. Advanced frontend developers don’t need AI to “write code.”They need AI to compress … Read more
📘 Lesson 2 Blog Post #2 in the Apps Script + APIs + Gemini Series One of the biggest milestones in learning Google Apps Script is moving from simply calling an API… to actually using its data inside Google Workspace. In this lesson, you’ll learn: By the end, you’ll know how to turn any JSON … Read more
🚀 Automatically Convert PDFs to Text Files Using Google Apps Script (With OCR Support!) Working with PDFs is painful. They’re great for sharing, but not so great when you actually need the text inside them. Manually copying and pasting from dozens—or hundreds—of PDFs is slow, error-prone, and exhausting. So today, I’m sharing a practical automation … Read more
https://github.com/lsvekis/AI-Form-Builder-for-Google-Forms 🚀 Apps Script + Gemini Mastery — Issue #7 AI Form Builder for Google Forms Generate complete Google Forms — questions, sections, validation, and descriptions — automatically using Gemini. ⭐ What You Will Build in This Issue In this lesson, you’ll create an AI-powered form builder that: 📋 Generates an entire Google Form from … Read more
🌟 VIBE LEARNING — ISSUE #9 How to Build a Personal Knowledge Base With AI Turn what you learn into a searchable, permanent, evolving system. 👋 Welcome to Issue #9! So far, you’ve learned how to: But there’s one more essential skill for modern learners: Capturing what you learn so it becomes a resource you … Read more
🟦 JavaScript Deep Dive — Issue #4 Functional Programming Superpowers in JavaScript How FP techniques make your code cleaner, safer, more predictable — and easier to scale. Functional Programming (FP) isn’t a trend.It’s a set of powerful patterns that make code easier to reason about, test, reuse, and extend. Modern JavaScript frameworks — React, Svelte, … Read more
Everything You Need to Integrate Gemini Into Web Apps, Servers, Workflows & AI-Powered Tools Google’s Gemini API gives developers a powerful set of tools for text generation, analysis, structured reasoning, image understanding, code assistance, and more. Combined with Gemini Gems, you can build AI agents that behave consistently and integrate them directly into your applications. … Read more
How to Use Them & How to Get Started (Beginner Friendly) Gemini Gems are lightweight, customizable AI agents you can build inside Google AI Studio. They let you create mini-AI tools with specific behaviors—like tutors, assistants, generators, summarizers, or domain-specific experts—without writing complex code. If you can describe what you want, you can build a … Read more
🚀 Vibe Coding — Issue #1 Code Faster. Think Smarter. Build Better. A new coding mindset for modern frontend developers. Welcome to the first issue of the Vibe Coding Newsletter — your new weekly system for leveling up as a developer using AI-enhanced thinking paired with rock-solid frontend engineering fundamentals. Vibe Coding is not about … Read more