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Headless UI Transitions
Transitions in Tailwind Lab's Headless UI library made simple.
How to Use Headless UI's Combobox with Async Data
Learn how to create an autocomplete component that works with your backend.
How to Fix Bottom Padding for iOS Mobile Browsers
How to dynamically add extra bottom padding on mobile devices using CSS.
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How to Create Themes with Tailwind CSS and React
Use CSS variables to leverage client-side theming with Tailwind CSS and React.js.
Headless UI Transitions
Transitions in Tailwind Lab's Headless UI library made simple.
How to Add Google Adsense Ads to a Next.js App
Get paid for your content. Learn how I add Google Adsense ads to a Next.js app.
Frontend
Improve SEO with Social Sharing Cards
Find out how to get an image and metadata to show up when sharing your link on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites.
Improve Accessibility with Semantic HTML
Learn how to make your site more accessible with semantic HTML.
Blur Placeholder Images with Next.js and mdx-bundler
Get that "blur-up" effect we used to love in Gatsby.
Backend
Why I Regret Switching from Elasticsearch to Algolia
Roadblocks my team stumbled upon using Algolia in a large-scale production app.
Building a Mental Model Around JavaScript Promises
Promises can be tricky to understand. I'll demystify promises and show you how you can leverage them to make your apps faster.
How to Sort by Geo Distance Using Bounding Boxes in Algolia
How to support geo-filtering with a minimum and maximum radius.
Next.js
Google Analytics 4 with Next.js
How to set up gtag.js with Next.js and TypeScript.
How to Create an MDX Blog with Supabase and Next.js
Superpower your MDX blog with a PostgreSQL database backed by Supabase and Next.js.
Run Cypress Tests against Vercel Preview Deployments
Learn how to use GitHub Actions to run Cypress tests against Vercel deployments.
Software Engineering
Clean Code
What is clean code? How can we enforce it? Find out here.
Applying the Single Responsibility Principle to Pull Requests
Pull requests should do one thing well.
Prefer Returning Objects to Literal Types
A simple mental framework to make your APIs more flexible and less likely to break consumers.
React.js
How to Use Headless UI's Combobox with Async Data
Learn how to create an autocomplete component that works with your backend.
Refactoring State Machines from useEffect to useReducer
How I used useReducer can simplify state machine logic.
When to Create Custom React Hooks
Find out common scenarios when you should use custom React hooks.
JavaScript
How to Find Broken Images with Cypress Testing Library
You don't want your users to have to read the alt tag because your image didn't load. Let's fix it.
Introducing JavaScript's Pipe Operator
Functions on functions on functions. Improve your code with JavaScript's pipe operator.
JavaScript Class Array Method Error Fix
If you're passing a method on a class to an array method, you better make it a higher-order function to avoid a "this is undefined" error.
Tailwind CSS
Simple Trick to Clean Up Tailwind CSS in React
Long strings of Tailwind CSS utility classes can be hard to read. This simple function fixes that.
How to Learn CSS Fast
CSS can be a struggle to learn. Tailwind CSS was the framework that made CSS concepts stick.
How to Override Styles with Tailwind CSS Typography
Do you need to override styles using the `prose` class? Try this.
TypeScript
Prefer Returning Objects to Literal Types
A simple mental framework to make your APIs more flexible and less likely to break consumers.
How to Ensure Code Only Runs in the Browser in Next.js
How to ensure your code is only run on the client when using a full-stack JavaScript framework such as Next.js or Remix.
How to Create Themes with Tailwind CSS and React
Use CSS variables to leverage client-side theming with Tailwind CSS and React.js.
CSS
How to Use Headless UI's Combobox with Async Data
Learn how to create an autocomplete component that works with your backend.
Learn Flexbox With Tailwind CSS and React
Master CSS Flexbox with Tailwind CSS.
How to Fix Bottom Padding for iOS Mobile Browsers
How to dynamically add extra bottom padding on mobile devices using CSS.
Testing
Run Cypress Tests against Vercel Preview Deployments
Learn how to use GitHub Actions to run Cypress tests against Vercel deployments.
How to Find Dead Links with Cypress Testing Library
You don't want your users to hit a 404 when they click one of your links. Let's fix that.
TDD and Unit Testing with Jest
Learn the basics of writing unit tests and practicing test-driven development with examples in TypeScript.
SEO
Supercharge SEO with Schema.org Schema Markup
Tell search crawlers about your site with Schema.org JSON-LD markup.
Improve SEO with Social Sharing Cards
Find out how to get an image and metadata to show up when sharing your link on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites.
Improve Accessibility with Semantic HTML
Learn how to make your site more accessible with semantic HTML.
Headless UI
How to Use Headless UI's Combobox with Async Data
Learn how to create an autocomplete component that works with your backend.
How to Create Themes with Tailwind CSS and React
Use CSS variables to leverage client-side theming with Tailwind CSS and React.js.
Headless UI Transitions
Transitions in Tailwind Lab's Headless UI library made simple.
Gatsby.js
How to Host a Gatsby Site on AWS with Terraform
Deploy S3, CloudFront, Route53 (and more) infrastructure with Terraform to host your Gatsby.js website.
How to Deploy a Gatsby Site to AWS with GitHub Actions
Use Terraform and GitHub Actions to build a CI/CD pipeline for your Gatsby project.
Google Analytics Events with Gatsby and TypeScript
How I use TypeScript to track Google Analytics events in Gatsby.js.
