The complexity of our front end code keeps increase year over year. The tools are changing and it feels like you need to know more and more stuff just to be able to use a new framework or boilerplate and idea. Codepen has been an essential tool in my learning…
I have been trying to find more ways to bring in a serverless setup into my projects more and more. The more functions that I can offload the easier it will be to keep my projects as well as share some components between some projects. The more components that we…
Why Framer X Is So Exciting? I have dabbled in a bunch of different design tools over the years. I have a Sketch license and I have been hopping into Figma a lot lately. Framer X is a giant new update from Frame that bring React into design tools. Framer…
Preact is a 3KB alternative to React. As far as frameworks go 3KB is tiny for everything that Preact gives you out the box. Normally, I would say to myself why use the alternative and spend all the time with React. But, Preact is super fast and most important you…
Over, the years, I learned that the best way for me to learn things is just to do them. I have been working on just re-learning or discovering some new fundamentals of JS, and I am hooked on trying to widen my JS knowledge and bring new things into the…
Next.js is a React framework built by Zeit, INC. Zeit has some interesting CDN and deployment products, but its React framework has been on my radar. I have built some sites with both Create React App and Gatsby, so I was curious to see what Next.js could bring…
A HTTP library is still a common plugin to include on a project. Depending on what I am working on I will still use jQuery to make some of these requests or include a library like Axios to handle the requests. If you are looking for a way to not…
2018Chrome is still my daily driver as a browser. I still prefer chrome dev tools and I am baked into the Google ecosystem. I still have Opera, Firefox, Firefox Dev, Safari, Brave and Brave Dev install on my computer. I want to list out some of the extension that I…