In this article, I’ll compare two leading JS frameworks-React and Vue.js-from many perspectives, including learning curve, performance, the size of communities, and interest from employers. I’ll also explain the differences between building a static site using their respective static site generators, Gatsby and Gridsome. Is Jamstack always JavaScript? If you’re new to the Jamstack…

I have spoken on multiple conferences, user groups, tech days, and similar events. I know how to make a good presentation and how to emphasize the key points I want my audience to take away. So what’s the problem with my anxiety? The more experience with a specific topic I…

Last time we built a client-side Blazor site with an interactive map from the ground up. But for the website to help drivers, it needs more functionality. It should check where visitors are parking their cars and tell them how much and where they can pay. Otherwise, they would get…

Are you a .NET developer? Are you also a little bit jealous of the beautiful, responsive SPAs that JS folks create nowadays? Envy no more, Blazor is here to help you. I used to do a lot of .NET coding in the past, so when JavaScript became the rising star…

Written by Jan Sedo — May 22, 2019 Whenever I was faced with a task of quickly creating a page in the past, I went with WordPress. I already had a PHP-enabled server and a database installed on my machine, so I just needed to create a new database user…

When modeling content, you frequently stumble upon the need of storing data in specific structures that go beyond conventional types like string, number or list of options. Typical examples are countries and states. You can not use a free text field for this unless you fancy giving editors free rein…

In my previous article, I explained why it makes sense to decouple the front-end part of a website from its back-end services. I introduced GraphQL, Apollo and other tools that enable such abstraction and make maintenance of production websites a nice experience. In this article, I will show you a…

REST API services, SQL databases, markdown files, text files, SOAP services… can you think of yet another way to store and exchange data and content? Production websites usually work with several different services and ways to store data, so how can you keep the implementation clean and maintainable? Every Node.js…

You have a static site all implemented and ready for the world to see, but where should you host it? How do you select the right platform and plan for a set of static files? How can you ensure that the website will automatically regenerate whenever you change its content? …