Dennis Persson articles - 49 total
From Programmer to Software Developer – The Skills That Make the Difference
Programmer and developer are often used interchangeably, but there is an important distinction...
Three Simple Rules to Solve Unsolvable Organizational Problems
There are some problems every company faces, no matter the size or industry. Issues like incorrectly...
Write SOLID React Hooks
SOLID is one of the more commonly used design patterns. It's commonly used in many languages and...
Answers to Common Next.js Questions
Web development went from server rendered applications to single page applications rendered fully on...
33 Christmas Animations to Easily Add to Your Website
Yes, it's already that time of year. Whether you love or hate Christmas, a small Christmas CSS...
React Hook: useElementDimensions
CSS is great, but sometimes it is not enough. Sometimes you need to know the size of CSS elements in...
How To Make a Hero Image in Next.js 13 and 14
I have noticed that one of my previously very popular article about how to make a hero image in...
The 20 Most Common Use Cases for JavaScript Arrays
Splice, slice, pop and shift. Is the array sort method stable and not in-place? It's not easy to...
The Art of Code Review and Why You Need It
Code reviewing is an art. Although most companies conduct code reviews, only a few of them fully...
I Hired an AI as a Developer - This Is What Happened
There have been many discussions around whether AI is threatening developer's jobs. Some say they are...
React Hook: useGlobalState
Sharing state between React components is crucial in most applications. With useGlobalState you can...
Do Contexts in Next.js 13 Make the Whole App Render on the Client?
React contexts are quite crucial for React development. Most projects depends on it, either directly...
Why Server Components - A Brief History of Web
According to Stack Overflow survey 2023, Next.js is now the third most desired web framework, and the...
Errors Received When Migrating Next.js 13 to New App Folder
Next.js is evolving. Fairly recently, Next.js has added a new powerful routing mechanism which is...
If We Only Had Five VS Code Extensions
If you had to choose five and only five VS Code extensions, which would you choose? I asked that...
useEffect - The Hook React Never Should Have Rendered
React was once a fantastic library. Quick to learn, easy to customize and made it easy for you to...
How To Use MVVM in React Using Hooks and TypeScript
Software applications often start out simple and quickly grows big. No matter how small one try to...
Give Your DRY Tests a WET Touch
For quite some time, the commonly accepted practice has been to write DRY code, but there are...
What If You Would Marry a Programming Language
What if programming languages were human and you could marry them? What could you expect in...
React Anti-Patterns and Best Practices - Do's and Don'ts
React may seem to be one of the least opinionated frameworks in the Wild West Web. Despite that,...
Persson's Pyramid Puzzle - Level 5
A new level of my programming puzzle game Persson's Pyramid is now available. The game is for all...
Complete Guide To Make You a Regex Guru
This is the second article in a series of regex articles. In the first article, you can read about...
6 Use Cases for Regex in Your Daily Work
In This Article What Is Regex? Regexes in a Nutshell When Is Regex Used? Searching...
Extensive List of Best Development Resources - 121 Links to Guides, Cheat Sheets and More List of Resources
This is a collection of top rated web development resources every developer needs. Roadmaps, guides,...
I Created a Programming Puzzle Game
Halloumi! I made a new puzzle game. It's a four-question pyramid quiz game. It's for all those...
Why You Should Not Be a Reactive Developer
In This Article What Is a Reactive Developer Case Scenario The Reactive Developer's...
Three Tricks for Chrome DevTools to Find Logs More Easily
Chrome's developer tools are incredibly powerful. Unfortunately, both the console and network tab...
What If Movie Characters Had LinkedIn Profiles
Have you ever wondered what Sheldon Cooper's LinkedIn profile would look like? Oh, stupid question....
How I Improved Lighthouse Performance by Adding an Image
Images and videos are slow to load, and most bloggers and companies are eventually coming to the...
React Hooks: useThrottledValue and useThrottledFunction
This article explains the new React 18 hooks useDeferredValue and useTransition and compares them to...