Diona Rodrigues articles - 42 total
Essential SQL Commands: A Quick Reference Guide
I recently took some time to recap the SQL commands I use the most, and I decided to put together a...
Redux Toolkit Advanced: Scaling Redux Toolkit for Large Applications
Redux Toolkit (RTK) has revolutionized state management in React applications by simplifying...
Redux Toolkit Fundamentals: Simplifying State Management
If you have ever used Redux, you probably remember how complicated it could get—setting up the store,...
NVM Basics & Bash Aliases: Simplify Your Development Workflow
As developers, managing different versions of Node.js and streamlining terminal commands are...
From useEffect to React Query: Modernizing your data management in react
In the modern web development landscape, building fast, responsive applications that efficiently...
Web accessibility, how to design web pages for everyone
As developers, how can we make at least the web more accessible for all? That’s the main question of...
6 useful CSS features you might not know about
CSS is getting bigger and bigger and even though we work daily with this style language, we do not...
Docker compose, orchestrating and automating services
Docker compose is a tool that allows us to replace most of the commands and configurations that we...
Docker networking, how to connect different containers
Having different containers is quite common when using Docker in a project, such as one for the React...
How to use Docker Images, Containers, Volumes and Bind Mounts
Even if you already work with Docker and want to better understand its core concepts or are trying to...
Understanding the most important HTTP status codes
Maybe you never realized how difficult the web would be without HTTP status codes, or what a terrible...
Retrospective 2023
Tonight is the evening of December 24th, Christmas Eve, and I'm sitting in the common area of a...
Fetch API, do you really know how to handle errors?
The Fetch API is not that new and most developers have used it at some point to retrieve resources...
How to create a custom cursor follower with GSAP
In this article I will show you how I created a custom cursor follower for my personal website using...
Generating React files with Plop to maintain code consistency and avoid trivial steps
We all know how time-consuming it is to perform trivial tasks and how difficult our code can become...
Observer and Pub-Sub Patterns for reactive behaviours in JavaScript
These are definitely two of my favourite and easiest to understand design patterns in JavaScript and...
Migrating my site from Gatsby to Next.js 13, the pros and cons
Next.js 13 was released a few months ago, bringing many powerful new changes to this framework and...
I am proud to be a transgender IT developer
I'm taking this 2023 Pride Month to share that I'm a transgender IT developer and would love to...
React Server Components overview
React Server components are making waves in the front-end community as they introduce a new mindset...
React.js, behind the scenes
Did you watch the React.js documentary released on YouTube a few weeks ago? Some of Facebook's tech...
You might be overusing React states
Creating states to store data in React is tempting and sometimes we overuse this feature because we...
The future of CSS is now
Several web reports were published earlier this year and I'll give you a rundown of what's happening...
Key React 18 release features in 2022
The long-awaited version 18 of React was finally released this year and it was just as famous as its...
React's new killer documentation focused only on functional components
It's no secret that the old React documentation is useless most of the time because it no longer...
What I would say to myself at the beginning of my career
A few days ago I came across a question about what I would say to someone who is starting in frontend...
The best way to master CSS using free resources
All developers know at least a little bit of CSS, but many of them spend so much time creating styles...
Fetch API is new old version of AJAX
If you started your developer career about a decade ago, you probably know how complicated it was to...
Why you should use Typescript now
I just finished a crash course to update my knowledge on the main features of Typescript and I really...
Best VSCode Extensions I use for any project
As you probably know, Visual Studio Code is one of the most popular code editors for frontend...
Modern starter for Next.js applications written in TypeScript and more
Next.js is a framework built on top of React that has been changing the way we build applications...