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Demo (here) | Repo (here) With the rise of the JAMStack and the serverless approach, most of the things that used to require a backend are now handled completely on the front-end or through APIs. But sometimes this is not enough, and that's where "se...
Google Fonts are amazing and widely popular on the Internet. Its API makes up 89.28% of the web fonts market share (see source). However, I often noticed that many websites struggle with fetching their fonts and end up render-blocking their website b...
Writing CSS is hard. Even though it often is made fun of and not seen as a programming language, writing consistent and pretty CSS is really hard. And in my journey as a self-taught web developer, I have often noticed that online classes and tutorial...
One of the reasons why Gatsby JS has been so popular over the years is its vast plugin library that makes it almost as easy as drag-and-drop to add new functionality to your app. Because of that, Gatsby has managed to make adding a headless CMS a st...
I have been a freelance web developer for a while now, but in the beginning, I was always wondering whether WordPress development is going to be the only way to create websites for my clients? I was looking for something to take advantage of my JavaS...
Especially for blogs these days, Instagram feed implementations have become more and more popular. In Gatsby JS case, I have often used this handy plugin called gatsby-source-instagram, but as new images are only loaded during build time and not on p...
One of the many things that might get people to use Gatsby JS is the vast Gatsby Plugin Library that comes with it. Thousands of different plugins, built by the Gatsby team, the community, or sole developers with almost seamless drop-in support make ...
One thing that many of my clients are asking for these days is to include slide-in, pop up, or some other kind of animation on their website. And you can go ahead and write the CSS yourself or use a more React-oriented solution like react-intersectio...
As a freelancer living and working in Japan, I had been asked many times in the past if I could translate my website to Japanese. And so finally, at the beginning of December, I created a Japanese and German version of my so far English website. It w...