Next.js 16.3: What Changed and How to Upgrade
Next.js 16.3 is here, and this is not one of those releases where you upgrade just to keep your package.json happy. The release improves how Next.js uses memory, builds your app, renders on the server
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Migrating from useEffect to use: A Practical Refactor
For years, the "Fetch-on-Render" pattern using useEffect has been the standard way to load data in client-side React. It works, but it requires significant boilerplate: managing loading states, handling errors, and avoiding race conditions. Migrating...
The Un-Hook: Mastering the New use API in React
For years, React developers have lived by the "Rules of Hooks": never call them inside loops, conditions, or nested functions. With the introduction of the new use API in React 19, those rules are getting a major asterisk. use is a new API that allow...
TypeScript 101 - The Introduction
What the heck is this TypeScript?
Github features you might not know about. Don't miss out
Hello everyone, Did you make a lot of GitHub commits lately? 😃 Today, I want to share with you some new features, I'd even date to call them "hacks", that you try out. I'm sure you're familiar with GitHub, but there are a few features that you mig...
Learn REST APIs from the beginning
Hi, welcome once again. This article is a compilation of some REST APIs tutorials. In this article, you will learn what REST APIs are from the scratch. To understand REST APIs, you need to understand what an API (or Application Programming Interface)...
Managing Git branches with `git-trim`
After creating so many branches on your current project, pushed some to git, merged some with the main branch and you even forgot that some branch existed or needed to clean up stale or old local branches that have already been merged and deleted on ...
Building a basic inspirational quotes generator in JavaScript
Hi guys, how are you all doing? I know its been a while since I last wrote an article, not my fault though. Having issues with my laptop and also on my end, I've been kinda busy. So today, I was going through some of my old project when I was learnin...
Explained - The Difference Between Var, Let and Const in JavaScript
Var - Let - Const A lot of shiny new features came with the introduction of ES2015 (ES6). One of the features is the addition of let and const which is also used for variable declaration. How are they different from our good old friend var. Let's Get...
