React Trends in 2024

The year 2024 got me excited about React's ecosystem again. Despite the various challenges and dramas (the biggest one of them moving React to the server with React Server Components) we had last year, there are emerging React trends that everyone should have on their watchlist.

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The Great ESLint v9 Migration Adventure: A Developer's Survival Guide 🧗‍♂️

As a frontend developer who has spent years working with complex TypeScript codebases, I’ve learned that solid linting is essential for maintaining long-term code quality.

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Next.js vs TanStack

See this post for inspiration. Over the past few months, I’ve moved as much code as possible away from Next.js. While I see why people are attracted to it and its growing ecosystem, I am no longer sipping the KoolAid.

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Unlock exciting use cases with the Document Picture-in-Picture API

The Document Picture-in-Picture API (Document PiP API) lets web applications open a floating, always-on-top window (a picture-in-picture window) that can display any arbitrary HTML content.

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AI's effects on programming jobs

There's been a whole lot of discussion recently about the impact of AI on the market for web developers, for programmers in general, and even more generally the entire labor market.

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How to get deep traces in your Node.js backend with OTel and Deno

One important facet of running production software is observability—monitoring logs, traces, and metrics so you can identify and fix issues quickly. In Node.js servers, adding observability isn’t trivial. You have to add instrumentation code, modify your logger, and configure various services.

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Building APIs with Next.js

This guide will cover how you can build APIs with Next.js, including setting up your project, understanding the App Router and Route Handlers, handling multiple HTTP methods, implementing dynamic routing, creating reusable middleware logic, and deciding when to spin up a dedicated API layer.

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