10 questions to ask before adopting new technology
I use this handy mental guide to figure out whether or not it makes sense to jump onto the new hot JavaScript framework.
Frameworks
Building Server-rendered React Apps with NextJS
In this post, I’ll explain what NextJS is, and how you can use it to build a server-rendered React web application and deploy it to production.
How to format JavaScript automatically with Prettier and Git
How to integrate Prettier and Git to have your JavaScript automatically formatted before every commit.
Getting started with NodeJS and Kafka
In this tutorial, I’ll talk about how I set up Kafka to provide website analytics and event tracking for a web application. For my use case, I wanted to store and process raw event data in real-time. With Google Analytics, you can’t do that. Enter Kafka.
JavaScript Testing: From 0 to 80% Code Coverage
This is how fast your coverage numbers will go up. I was recently working on an application at work which was stable but had no automated test coverage. As it got bigger, I grew more worried about the fact that I couldn’t keep the entire code base in my head anymore. As an app gets […]
Create a web app with user authentication in under 10 minutes
Have you struggled with user authentication before? Almost every web application we make needs some type of user authentication. Yet, it’s still not trivial to create a standard user authentication flow. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve created login and signup pages. The good news is that there are some good JavaScript […]