This article covers the conventional way of building full-stack applications and why manually building your backend is not always the best choice. You’ll see an alternative solution for your backend needs that can be used standalone or coupled with your custom-built backend. The issues with the traditional backend The conventional approach to developing full-stack applications involves…

Zod is a lightweight and powerful validation library for JavaScript and TypeScript applications. It enables you to define the structure of your data through schemas and validate the input data against those schemas. Although it can be used with JavaScript applications, Zod works greatly with TypeScript. Zod can automatically generate…

React Hook Form (RHF) is a library for managing and validating forms. It’s a performant library that improves the app performance by reducing the amount of code you need to write and minimizing the number of re-renders. RHF is also super light having zero dependencies. Lastly, you can integrate RHF…

How to use your current skill set to branch out into content creation — Content creation is quite popular nowadays, and its popularity continues to rise. As a result, more and more developers plan to start their content creation journey. It’s understandable because creating content comes with freedom and many perks. Even for those that are not wildly popular. Some of the perks content…

Learn how to do it with both npm and yarn — Usually, you install the latest version of a package when you want to use it. But there are circumstances when you might need to install a specific package version. One example would be when the latest changes in a package are not compatible with your code. This article shows you…

Let’s use Hasura to speed up the development time by minimizing the amount of code — In the traditional approach to building full stack applications, you need to manually build the backend and frontend. Building your backend manually means that you need to decide whether to use REST or GraphQL. Based on what you choose to use, you need to define GraphQL schemas and resolvers, write…

Learn how to use React hooks to search and filter data — Searching and filtering data is a common feature in all applications. The users should be able to search for specific things when using an application. In my case, I had to implement this feature in a simple React application recently, and I thought of sharing my solution with you. Context Before…

Let these mind-blowing portfolios inspire your next portfolio — For web developers, a personal portfolio page is like a resume. Instead of listing your skills on a resume in the traditional way, you can prove your competence with a personal portfolio. When people or potential employers see your portfolio, they can get a glimpse of your skills. Thus, online…

What tutorial hell is and why do you need to escape — In this article, I want to talk about the tutorial hell and why you need to break out of it. Tutorial hell is very prominent in tech and many developers struggle with it, especially beginners. Thus, let’s see what tutorial hell is… Tutorial hell is when you go from tutorial…