Displaying a PDF in a web app should be quite straight forward. It is, in most cases. The majority of web browser do support displaying PDFs natively, without the need for a third party library. However, the behaviour would not always be consistent. Let’s first see some ways you could…

Level up your image handling — The Beloved <img> Tag The easiest way to embed an image in a web page is by using the classic <img> HTML tag:

The JAMstack (JavaScript-API-Markup) movement makes us rethink how we build websites. The latest trend, and rightfully so, is to pre-render pages at build time instead of rendering them on the client or on the server (via Server Side Rendering), to achieve a blazing fast experience. What can be a statically generated website? It is generally a good…

What’s the hype? — Many buzzwords get thrown around in the tech space. Two of these are Static Site Generation (SSG) and Server Side Rendering (SSR).

After a couple of months playing around with AWS and developing web applications with it, I would like to describe the top services I found myself using the most. This article is, for sure, not a detailed guide of AWS services, as it is intended to be an introductory article…

Recently the developers from Chrome posted an article about introducing a brand new label for high performance websites, which aims to help users find the pages which offer a “high quality user experience on the web”: “To help users identify great experiences as they browse, we are excited to announce…

React Suspense — a short recap React Suspense is part of a new suite of features from React. It basically lets you suspend the rendering of a component until a certain condition is met. React Suspense goes hand-in-hand with the scary sounding Concurrent Mode. …

Working in web development is interesting and many times quite challenging. We must integrate our applications with many external services. Most probably one of the things you must do when working on a frontend application is calling a backend service to fetch some data (by sending an HTTP request). Axios…

Deploying your application to a platform is a must, no one can argue that. Without it, your application is not accessible from the internet and people can’t experience the app you’ve been working on so hard 😢. However, automating the deployments — when you or your team pushes some fresh…