This week, Vercel announced the release of Next.js 12 at Next.js conf, surprising everyone, given the relatively short time span since the release of version 11 in June of this year. As a framework, Next.js aims to provide a complete solution for building Jamstack apps to fit most (if not…

I used to object to the idea of TypeScript. To me, it didn’t seem to make sense to add static typing to a language that was designed not to have it. I started my career as a C++ Graphics Engineer, before transitioning to being a Front-End Designer and Developer. …

This year I wrote and released Still, a mobile app for iOS and Android. Still is an app designed to help people with Anxiety and OCD relax. I thought of the idea for during the first COVID-19 lockdown of 2020, as I found myself struggling with Anxiety and figured I…

Writing React applications can get same-y. We often find ourselves going over the same patterns of defining the same component behavior over and over, and one can start to wonder how we can make these patterns more and more DRY. React Hooks are awesome. By abusing the power of JavaScript…

Ah, React Native animations. Long-considered to be one of the pain points of React Native development, due to their steep learning curve and being packed with potentially performance-crushing pitfalls, creating delightful animations and gesture-based interactions has been hard. But why so tricky? The answer lies in React Native’s architecture, namely…

We’ve all come across stuff like this before. You’ve got a component that can display errors locally, but calls external code: import { someApiCall, someOtherApiCall } from './api'; const SubmitButtonGroup = () => { const toast = useToast(); return ( <>…