Alex Barashkov articles - 27 total
Things you might not know about Next Image
If you've worked with Next.js, it's likely that you've come across Next Image component. This...
Use Google Analytics to uncover the truth about dark and light mode user's preferences
Dark mode has become increasingly popular in recent years, as it can help reduce eyestrain and save...
Advanced web font optimization techniques
Website developers have been using custom fonts for ages. Since custom fonts are not present in the...
Optimization techniques for Rive animations in React apps
What is Rive? Rive is a modern tool for creating well-performing interactive animations...
Gatsby Graphql schema customization for beginners
Gatsby has one big difference from other frameworks: it has a built-in Graphql data layer. Such a...
Comparing Gatsby and Next.js for website development
Gatsby and Next.js, from a first glance, could look pretty much the same. Both are React-based...
Measuring Gatsby projects build time using paid plans of popular static website hosting platforms
Jamstack is showing rapid growth these days. We get more and more tools and frameworks for it almost...
How to hide Feature A and show Feature B for different users in React
Overview Have you ever wondered how do companies like Slack, Netlify, Zoom, Facebook (and...
Top 10 open-source SaaS that could help you build the next big thing
I'm super happy that investors and big companies are finally happy to support Open Source projects....
Speed up your development with this new VS Code extension
My friend and I recently developed VS Code extension – Snipsnap that aims to solve the existing probl...
A simple guide for port forwarding Kubernetes resources
Kubernetes changes the way how people deploy, orchestrate, and build their infrastructures. In this a...
Automate NPM packages security fixes with recurring tasks on CI
When developing on Node.js, our team uses a lot open source NPM packages. Each of...
The Challenges of Building Own MacOS App
Two years ago, we began the process of building a simple, open-source MacOS app...
Getting started with open-source Drone CI
If you are building your side project or startup and want to avoid spending too...
How did we make open source CI better?
In this article, we talk about Drone CI, a very powerful, lightweight, docker-b...
How games can improve your skills in the real world
If you’re going to play the game, you’ve got to learn to play it right or how g...
20 Docker commands use cases for developers
Technology is most effective when you know how to work with it; bear this in mi...
Using Docker for Node.js in Development and Production
My current primary tech stack is Node.js/Javascript and, like many teams, I mov...
How to debug Node.js in a Docker container
More and more teams are moving their development environments to Docker contain...
📈 What is the size of dev.to community we could expect in a year?
The forecast of the potential size of dev.to community in a year.
Microservices vs. Monolith Architecture
Let’s discuss the pros and cons of each, point by point.
How to deal with the event-stream vulnerability
Simple answer on the hyped theme
Real time + Postgres = ?
Experience of implementing real time data subscription on top of existing PostgreSQL database.
Tips and tricks for scalable CI/CD flow
When you plan a project, you don’t always know how big it will be by the end. It’s crucial, therefore, to follow guidelines that make the development process as smooth as possible. One especially useful tool for this is a Continuous Integration/Delivery flow, or CI/CD flow.
How to send AWS CloudWatch Alarms to Slack
Alarm and monitoring systems are a key part of mature products and applications...
99.9% uptime static site deployment with Cloudflare and AWS S3
Welcome to our simple guide for those of you looking for 99.9% uptime and an almost free deployment solution for your static websites, without having to maintain and configure your own server. In this article, we will do it with Cloudflare as a CDN service and AWS S3 as file storage.
Best practices for cache control settings for your website
In this article, I will show you the right cache settings and techniques to help you keep your website up to date for all users after every deployment.