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How to connect a custom domain (cloudflare) to AWS API gateway and generate free SSL certificates

AWS vault is a handy tool I use every day to manage my AWS credentials when developing locally

2023 year in review and goals for 2024

Recently I aimed to showcase the current Spotify song I was listening to on my website. To achieve this, I connected the Spotify API with Next.js route handlers. In this post, we'll go over how to do this to help you get started with Spotify's API

How to manage TypeScript codebases when you don't know the exact shape of something

Learn how to create a Prisma generator that outputs TypeScript types from your Prisma schema

Next.js 13 contains a lot of quality-of-life improvements for developers, but what do these benefits actually mean to end users?

Conventional commits is a specification that seeks to improve and standardize commit messages in general. In this post, we'll go over the reasoning behind why you might want to use it & its benefits

Playwright is a cross-browser end-to-end testing framework created by Microsoft. It's reliable, supports several languages, and is flake-resistant. In this post, we'll go over how to get started with Playwright.

As your project grows in size it can become a bit tedious when you're starting up your local environment. In this post, we'll go from having to run 4 commands to only one command to start a project with multiple sub-projects

NVM (Node version manager) is a handy tool for switching between Node versions. Sometimes, you want to stick to one particular version.

How to prevent FOUC (flash of unstyled content) when using Next.js & Chakra UI

How to rename local & remote git branches.

How to extend multiple classes in TypeGraphQL and Typescript

How to deploy a full-stack app with Dokku to AWS / Digital Ocean. Cost-effective deployment for Node, PostgreSQL & Redis

Notes on the different methods of rendering that you can use with Next.js

Isolating features into separate branches is a really common practice for most developers. By separating features & bug fixes you can avoid a lot of problems and keep your branches clean.

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