Add granular role-based access to your JAMStack app

Say you’ve got a JAMStack app with authentication. Works great, loads fast, some pages need login. That part’s easy with something like useAuth, a manual integration with Auth0, or any number of 3rd party providers.

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Raspberry Pi 4 Gets Its 8 Gigs

What began as a rumor becomes reality. This morning [Eben Upton] announced that the newest flavor of the Raspberry Pi 4 comes with 8 gigabytes of RAM and a sticker price of $75, roughly twice that of the base model which is now pegged at 2 GB of ram.

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Rollup vs. Parcel vs. webpack: Which Is the Best Bundler?

Recently I was publishing a library to npm and I thought of experimenting with the bundler I was going to package my code in. While webpack has always been my standard choice, I decided to put it up against two other popular bundlers — Rollup and Parcel.

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useStatus: A Custom React Hook for Managing UI States

Handling UI states can start to make your template crowded and littered with variables. A recent talk I heard regarding State Machines inspired me to create a hook that helped me handle some issues that I constantly found myself running into.

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Text To Speech In 3 Lines Of JavaScript

But if you're not in a hurry, this article explains everything you need to know about converting text to speech (spoken words) on the web with JavaScript.

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Gatsby won against Next.js in this head-to-head

With the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and social distancing measures, many events have been forced to migrate to online virtual events. I’m a software engineer at Antler, which runs a global startup generator program that usually runs multiple in-person Demo Day events a year that showcase around a dozen new startups, and we faced the same situation.

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State of Microfrontends

Originally published at Bits and Pieces. One of the more controversial topics in frontend web dev is microfrontends. Are they worth it? Should you really split up your application? Do you really need to use this now?

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The Role of an Architect on a Scrum Team

None of the Agile, Lean, or Scrum principles have a formal definition of responsibilities for a Software Architect. Some companies take it to the extreme and not hire a architect at all. Others that do hire one are not clear on architect’s role within the agile context.

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Managing States with Recoil in React Applications

Recoil is an experimental state management library for React apps. It provides several capabilities that are difficult to achieve with React alone while being compatible with the newest features of React.

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Building large scale react applications in a monorepo

A monorepo can be described as a repository that contains more than one logical project. These projects can be unrelated, loosely coupled or connected by dependency management tools, they are usually large in size, number of branches, commits and working developers.

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