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The Definitive Guide to Netlify Serverless Functions

Mar 5, 20219 min read

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...

The best way to load and use Google Fonts with React, Gatsby and NextJS

Feb 17, 20215 min read

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...

Top 10 resources to get better at CSS and become a better front-end developer 👨‍🎨👨‍💻

Feb 12, 20217 min read

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...

Top 5 headless CMS and their pros and cons (Gatsby JS edition)

Feb 5, 20217 min read

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...

React and Gatsby JS got me started 🚀🔥 But what’s next?

Jan 29, 202111 min read

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...

Use Javascript's Fetch API with async/await to fetch your Instagram feed in React

Jan 22, 202113 min read

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...