Dominic Magnifico articles - 33 total
🚀 Building a Role Based Navigation in NextJS using Clerk
💥 The Challenge We’ve been working on a few projects with fairly complex navigation...
A Thank You ❤️
✨ An army of 10,000 of you have hit the follow button next to my name.✨ That's far and away the...
Some UX Design Principles Everyone Should Know 🥸
Hitting the ground running with a new app idea is tough. There are a million things to do and no time...
Raising a Web Studio Without Selling Your Soul 👹
Building a business is hard. That’s a pretty obvious statement, but there’s so much nuance to it that...
The Authenticity Wars - SEO Strategies In The Age Of AI 🤖
SEO was always one of those things that made me cringe every time I heard the phrase. I always...
🧐 Rethinking WordPress: The Pros and Cons of Going Headless
Ah yes, the first quarter of the year is done. Marketing budgets have been set, and for some, that...
10 Web Dev Qualities That Actually Matter 🦄
When it comes time to build or expand a team, we often encounter the same tired songs; “How’s the...
Five Syntax Highlighting Plugins for NextJS that aren't Terrible 🎨
As a connoisseur of artisanal tech blogs myself, I’ve found myself lost in the world of syntax...
Not Even Apple Can Kill the PWA 🔪
If you haven’t heard already, Apple made some interesting moves in response to some upcoming...
🧙♂️ Mastering the Dark Arts of Web Dev: Strategic Web Tech Selection
In the vast expanse of the dev world, where the glow of innovation meets the shadow of complexity,...
Why Everyone Hates WordPress
It’s no secret that when people hear “WordPress” these days they kind of cringe. WordPress has been...
👨🚀 Traversing Time with Intl.RelativeTimeFormat()
For the longest time working with dates in JavaScript was a huge pain. That’s why libraries such as...
🤫 Secret JavaScript Methods They Don't Want You To See (part 3): Promise.allSettled()
Promises are a feature in JavaScript that has always melted my small frontend focused brain. But as a...
🤫 Secret JavaScript Methods They Don't Want You To See (part 2)
As a continuation to our secret JavaScript Methods series, we’re going to talk about a controversial...
Crafting Equitable Web Experiences 🏗
I find myself writing some variation of this post every year, but the topic continues to to be one...
🤫 Secret JavaScript Methods They Don't Want You To See (part 1)
It baffles me every time I run into a JavaScript method I haven't encountered in my 10+ years as a...
How to Conduct Helpful Code Reviews (with real world examples 😱)
Code reviews are a staple of working in a team. Whether it be an engineering manager, leadership, or...
The Web Industry Has A Hiring Problem 😬
👉 Agencies need to start prioritizing hiring entry level developers. 👈 It’s no secret that there are...
Navigating a Decade of Web Dev Transformation
👋 I want to know what your experience is like trying to break into the web industry as an an entry...
Embracing Tech: Tools, Not Threats 🩸
✨Top 10 ChatGPT Prompts That Will Make You a 10x Developer ✨ The world is inundated with articles...
Are Specialists Becoming Extinct in the Age of Generalists?
The web world has gone through a shift over the past decade or so, from valuing specialists to...
Handling Controlled and Uncontrolled Inputs in React
Every time I build a form in React I inevitably run into this lovely warning: Warning: A component...
Exploring Server components in Next 13
I just got back from the labs at House of Giants where I was able to take a look at some of the cool...
Server Components in Next 13
I just got back from the labs at House of Giants where I was able to take a look at some of the...
Toggle State With React Hooks
Creating a toggle function is probably one thing that you'll always need to know how to do...
Basic ES6 Vanilla JS Class Toggle
Wow, almost three years after I posted a lil' blog post about a basic class toggl...
React Context API
https://reactjs.org/docs/context.html Since React 16.3.0, we've had access to the React Context API....
React for People Who Think Things Like React are Weird and Hard
Title shamelessly derived from Chris Coyier's fantastic post about Grunt. In t...
Intro to GraphQL Queries
Exploring some basics with GraphQL.
Understanding Grid Display, Tracks And The New fr Unit.
Alright, so I'm going to be writing about the new snazzy CSS Grid property and all it's components....