Using React Router + Laravel as an example, let's explore how to mount a multi-page SPA into an application with traditional, server-rendered routes, as well as the reasons you might want to do so.
Read ItAfter building content on Markdown and Notion for my blog posts, I think I've finally found a CMS I can see myself sticking with for a while.
Read ItWith respect to performance, the format you choose for your site's images can have a huge impact on your site's performance and overall user experience.
Read ItBreaking down some of the reasons Maps (and WeakMaps) are especially useful tools when working with a large number of DOM nodes.
Read ItThere are a few different ways to memoize complicated chunks of code in Ruby. Here's why .tap is my personal favorite.
Read ItI just moved this site's content over to a headless Ghost instance. As a part of that move, instead of processing Markdown, I'm retrieving raw HTML. I like that. It means fewer dependencies and a less complex build process.But it also means I need to do a little more work
Read ItWith so much going on on the browser's main thread, keeping a canvas animation buttery smooth can sometimes be a challenge. Web workers can help ease that hassle by handling the painting process elsewhere.
Read ItExploring one of the few practical-ish use cases for iterables and generators I’ve come across so far — destructuring an arbitrary number of entities on demand.
Read ItExploring how the MutationObserver API stacks up against the more traditional approach of polling for nodes that’ll eventually be created.
Read ItReviewing some of the most common approaches available to remove event listeners in JavaScript.
Read ItA Superior, Native Alternative to the Lame Approaches I’ve Used in the Past
Read ItWhat Stuck Out While Migrating My Blog from Next.js to Astro
Read ItI’ve been a vocal opponent of using Disqus for a number of reasons, one of which being what it does to the performance of your website. It’s actually one of the reasons I built an alternative.Despite that, it’s a widely used service that won’t be going away anytime soon. And
Read ItI remember when I first started to get a little more serious about blogging. It was with a statically generated Gatsby site, with posts stored in flat Markdown files, and deployed on Netlify. I loved it. But I knew it was still missing something I wanted: a way for readers
Read ItIf you’ve worked with React for any length of time, you’ve probably heard of the infamous useLayoutEffect() hook. You’ve also probably never used it. That’s because for most cases, useEffect() covers the vast majority of use cases with a much lower chance of shooting yourself in the foot. In fact,
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