Best practices to increase the speed for Next.js apps

In recent years, web application development has undergone a radical transformation due to the rise of Next.js. This framework allows developers to build powerful web apps with JavaScript without worrying about building the back-end infrastructure.

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VS Code Shortcuts To Code Like You’re Playing a Piano

I’ll be honest, being fast while programming is half the reason I even code anymore (Jk. Unless...). Anyway, I’ve found the thing that made me become a lot quicker was divorcing my hand from the mouse. Think about it, every time you have to move the mouse, you have to do these things:

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Remember When Your Team Decided What with Obsidian

In every software development project, there are things to remember, like what time we get to the office, or who’s in charge of planning the next birthday party. Some tasks are remembered by a tool like Jira or Pivotal Tracker, like the priority of tasks and what makes up each Epic.

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Book Recommendations for Software Engineers

Reading is a great way to spend your time. You expand your knowledge while stimulating your creativity. This can improve both your personal and professional life. Medium and dev.to are great sources of quality articles.

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The Missing Part of GitHub Actions Workflows: Monitoring

Having clear visibility into a continuous integration (CI) pipeline is more important than before in order to sustain health and performance in the development life cycle.

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Big O Notation - Why? When? Where?

Why? Big O notation gives abstraction and the opportunity for generalizing. When? Whenever you want to measure one parameter from the changing volume of another. Where? It is best to look at fairly atomic sections of code that make one specific business logic.

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To Retain Your Best Employees, Invest in Your Best Managers

You may recall the iconic 2013 Gallup study that found that people don’t leave companies, they leave managers. While that research was conducted almost 10 years ago, the adage holds up today.

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Switching an NX repo to PNPM

https://pnpm.io is a new package manager for the node space, it focuses on performance and best practices. We have seen a decent drop in clean install times for all our projects after switching from Yarn. Some projects dropped from ~2mins to ~30 seconds.

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🚀⚙️ JavaScript Visualized: the JavaScript Engine

JavaScript is cool (don't @ me), but how can a machine actually understand the code you've written? As JavaScript devs, we usually don't have to deal with compilers ourselves.

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How Use and Deploy Vite With React

In this article, we will look at how to make a simple project using Vite and React. As a bonus, I will show you how to deploy our project. First, let's create a folder for our project and start creating a project using Vite and its templates.

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Important JavaScript concepts that every developer should know.

👉🏻Before the execution of the code, the interpreter appears to move the declaration of functions, variables, or classes to the top of their scope. This process is known as JavaScript hoisting.

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20 Git Commands you (probably) didn't know about 🧙‍♂️

If you've ever browsed the git manual (or run man git), then you'll have noticed there's a whole lot more to git than what most of us use on a daily basis. A lot of these commands are incredibly powerful and can make your life a lot easier (others are a bit niche, but still good to know).

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Monolith to Module Federation

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Using SvelteKit 1.0 on Vercel – Vercel

As of today, December 14th, 2022, SvelteKit 1.0 was officially launched. SvelteKit is a new framework for building web applications that is gaining popularity among developers for its simplicity and performance. Built on top of Svelte (like Next.

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The BBC's 15 Web Principles - 15 years later

Back in 2007 - an eternity in web years - the BBC published a document showing their 15 Web Principles. I thought I'd take a look at how they stack up today. And investigate whether the BBC is still living up to them.

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Next, Nest, Nuxt… Nust?

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Job insights from the tech community: The latest survey results from Stack Overflow Knows

The last year has been a time of re-evaluation and opportunity for technology professionals. The rise of remote work, the Great Resignation/Reshuffle, and “quiet quitting” all demonstrate how fast the workplace is changing, especially amidst recent economic uncertainty and layoffs in the tech sector.

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A React Developer's First Take on Solid

When I start a new project, I tend to rely on tools I already know well. I have a vision in my head, and learning a new technology as I try to build something is a recipe for getting nothing done. Usually, for projects on the web, that means picking React.

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When to use gRPC vs GraphQL

TLDR: Use GraphQL for client-server communication and gRPC for server-to-server. See the Verdict section for exceptions to this rule. I’ve read a lot of comparisons of these two protocols and wanted to write one that is comprehensive and impartial.

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10 Ways Managers are Wasting Their Developers' Potential

Managers and software developers often have strained relationships. This may be related to a clash of perceived realities. Many managers strive to maximize the capacity of their teams. Developers grapple with the complexity of building software products.

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Engineering Manager: Resolving Intrapersonal Conflicts

In this article, a follow-up to the engineering manager series, we will talk about conflicts, common scenarios, and some tips on how to manage them in a professional environment.

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How to migrate from yarn / npm to pnpm

pnpm is more performant at fetching, resolving, and storing dependencies. My personal experience shows that in some projects pnpm can be approx. 10x time faster at resolving dependencies and up to 3x more efficient at disk usage. It is also easy to migrate to from npm or yarn.

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A brief introduction of vite-plugin-federation

Multiple separate builds should form a single application. These separate builds should not have dependencies between each other, so they can be developed and deployed individually. This is often known as Micro-Frontends, but is not limited to that.

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Pagination vs. infinite scroll: Making the right decision for UX

Content is in excess across the internet, and finding a proper way to present this content (with user experience in mind) is a good foundation for creating products that hook your audience.

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Top 10 Project Management Software Tools

A project management software or tool allows companies and individuals to plan, schedule, and manage their projects and tasks. Here is my list of the best project management software.

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Announcing Vite 4

Vite 3 was released five months ago. npm downloads per week have gone from 1 million to 2.5 million since then. The ecosystem has matured too, and continues to grow. In this year's Jamstack Conf survey, usage among the community jumped from 14% to 32% while keeping a high 9.7 satisfaction score.

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Lessons learned: how I’d rebuild a social web app like Twitter today

I’ve been thinking back to my time as a core member of the original team that built the Twitter web app. I learned a great many lessons there and thinking through them: How would I rebuild something similar to the Twitter web app today, like a Mastodon or Activity Pub web client?

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What is a North Star metric (NSM)?

A North Star metric represents a company’s core value that gets delivered to customers via their service or product. It’s the one metric that matters most to sustain the long-term growth of the organization.

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Why Technical Skill Isn’t the Most Important Proficiency for Engineers

Although technical knowledge is necessary to be an engineer, the ability to communicate effectively is too often overlooked. When making a list of key skills for an engineer, developers and engineers likely focus heavily on technical proficiencies.

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How to Build Apps with Great Startup Performance Using Qwik

In this article, we will recap the JS Drops Qwik workshop with Misko Hevery. This workshop provided an overview on Qwik, its unique features and a look at some example components. We will also address some of the questions raised at the end of the workshop.

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Just laid off? Nervous about possible layoffs? Here’s what to do.

There’s been a lot of high profile layoffs in the news lately: Layoffs.fyi shows over 140,000 layoff across nearly 900 companies in 2022. Whether this is a general economic downturn, dot com bust V3, or a correction after an aggressive overreach during the pandemic remains to be seen.

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12 Factor App Revisited

You will often see the good ol' days of software development and deployment being touted as better. The current reincarnation of this trend is Heroku. Don't get me wrong, Heroku was incredible and led to a new way of writing web applications and deploying about distributed systems.

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Web workers, React, and TypeScript

In this article, we will learn about web workers and how to use them in a React and TypeScript project by building a paginated data table. We’ll learn how to determine the length, filter, slice, and map through long arrays without affecting the performance and UX of our web applications.

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Building a High-Performing Engineering Team

As an engineering manager, you have a lot of responsibilities. You need to make sure your team has the tools and resources they need to do their job, you need to be a resource for them when they have questions, and you need to make sure they’re staying on track with their projects.

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Avoid These Common Pitfalls Of React useState

useState is the React hook that you use most often. It's everywhere. But so are some common mistakes. Especially among inexperienced React developers. Not to forget, you won’t easily fall into an embarrassing trap in one of those coding assignments in the hiring process.

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“Memory Saver” might cure Chrome’s insatiable appetite for RAM

Forget AAA ray-traced video games or mining cryptocurrency—sometimes it feels like just running Chrome is one of the hardest tasks you can throw at a PC. Google is apparently aware of Chrome's reputation for being a bit of a resource hog, and on Windows, macOS, and ChromeOS, it's introducing two new features—Memory Saver and Energy Saver—which hope to keep your browser running a bit better on more limited machines.

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Recognize When It’s Time to Stop Rapid Release of Great Features

Recently, my team at Atomic released a new build to production that contained many new features. The software was declared production ready by the client and by us. Shortly after we announced the deployment via Slack, the client instructed us to roll back the build ASAP.

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ChatGPT: Everything You Need to Know Right Now

Developed by OpenAI, the prototype AI chatbot name ChatGPT is currently the talk of the town. Here’s everything you need to know about it right now. It is a variant of the GPT-3 language model, which OpenAI developed.

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Prerender pages in Chrome for instant page navigations

The Chrome team has been working on options to bring back full prerendering of future pages that a user is likely to navigate to. This modern reboot of prerendering will start rolling out from Chrome 108.

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Take advantage of Git rebase

These days, developers spend a lot of time reviewing merge requests and taking these reviews into account to improve the code. We'll discuss how Git rebase can help in speeding up these review cycles. But first, let's take a look at some workflow considerations.

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Automatic refactoring with jscodeshift/codemods

In this article, I would like to introduce some techniques about how to apply automatic refactoring in your daily work through some usage of jscodeshift.

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How to choose the right static site generator

Most websites today fall into two categories - dynamic sites and static sites. Dynamic sites are interactive, and the user experience can be tailored to the visitor. Dynamic sites are interactive, and the user experience can be tailored to the visitor. These are the ones that might remember who you are across visits or deliver content that's most applicable to the region you're visiting from. They rely on a content management system (CMS) or database for rendering and can continue to grow in complexity as the organization's needs grow.

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ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue

We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.

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How To Locate Elements in Playwright

In order to write end to end tests we need to first find elements on the webpage and then perform user actions on them. For example, find a link and click on it. But before we dive into how to use the test generator, first let's understand what a link element is and what exactly locators are.

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3 Practices for Creating a Comfortable Environment for Junior Developers

As I have become more tenured in my career, I’ve developed strong feelings around best practices for mentoring junior developers. Those practices create a welcoming and inclusive learning environment at Atomic.

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Strategies and Tools for Performing Migrations on Platform

Needing to deliver faster and more reliably while managing a growing number of contributors and a more complex codebase seems like the fate of every hyper-growth tech company. For platform teams, the challenge is not any different.

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Strategies for migrating from a monolith to islands

Monolithic applications may not be all the buzz today, but many (WordPress, Ruby on Rails, Laravel, etc.) are alive, active, and still heavily used. In fact, one major benefit to not being all the buzz is that “the buzz” has evolved far enough in the last several years that many modern patterns can be applied to more traditional means of building websites and applications.

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Inside React Query

I've been asked a lot lately how React Query works internally. How does it know when to re-render? How does it de-duplicate things? How come it's framework-agnostic?

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A coach, a mentor and a sponsor

A coach talks to you, a mentor talks with you, and a sponsor talks about you. Each can play a valuable role in your career growth. What's the difference between these roles?

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React Testing Library Tutorial – How to Write Unit Tests for React Apps

Technical Writer | Freelancer and Full Stack Developer | JavaScript | React | Node.js. https://dev.to/myogeshchavan97 If you read this far, tweet to the author to show them you care.

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