Stephen Belovarich articles - 40 total
Server Side Rendering a Blog with Web Components
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The Problem With React
In this post I'll tell the other side of the story. The parts the React Documentary failed to...
I Asked ChatGPT to Code Web Components and This is What Happened
The past couple months and I've heard of web engineers tinkering with ChatGPT while another engineer...
Form-associated custom elements FTW!
Before Shadow DOM, you needed a framework to encapsulate component templates or styling. Shadow DOM...
The State Of Web Components in 2022
While writing a book about Web Components, I found nothing in my research that described the current...
I spent 48 Hours coding in Nova and forgot about VS Code
I spent 48 hours with Nova, a new native IDE for MacOS released by Panic on September 14th. Two day...
Coding Is About People Too... Ya Know?
We are experiencing an inflection point in American society. Gubernatorial orders to shelter in place...
Fetching API Data with Web Components and SSR
I recently launched a site built entirely with Web Components. Several views where static, meaning I...
I Coded My Personal Site With Web Components
Ugh. The chore of refactoring a personal site. We all should do it but who has the time? This is the...
Are You a Developer or Engineer? Why?
I consider myself a web engineer, but I'm curious how others perceive their role. Do you consider you...
Community Is Everything Right Now
The DEV community has the opportunity to maintain the status quo during the crisis. DEV can give us a...
The hidden cost of “don’t reinvent the wheel”
There’s a catchphrase I’ve heard from the even the most experienced web engineers in the past few yea...
Server Side Render Web Components
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So what’s controversial this week?
The past couple years I’ve been noticing a trend: more articles where the author starts complaining w...
CLI for React?! Yes Please!
Lately I’ve been getting into React development, just because I felt the need to dive in and see what...
Signs You've Found A Great Recruiter
Over the years I've interacted with some sleazy recruiters. When a recruiter responds "OK, bro" after...
The Journey That Finally Led Me To React
I didn’t learn React because it is popular. No, I didn't just take a deep dive into Context, React.me...
The New IE Is Not Mobile Safari
On January 15th, 2020 Microsoft released a version of Edge based off the the Chromium open source pro...
Asking The Right Question In The Interview
Sometimes it feels like you are on the losing end of the interview. The engineer across the table is...
Wishful Thinking In Agile Development
Wishful thinking. I see it whenever an engineer hears one thing about a feature and the requirements...
What To Do When You've Been Laid Off
It comes without warning. "I'm not sure if you have heard yet, but unfortunately we've lost the con...
Should we form a labor union?
You may have heard someone over the past few years talk about web developers like they're the new blu...
What Web Developers Can Learn From Apollo 11
It was an amazing experience to see Apollo 11 through the eyes of my father who worked on the mission...
Why I coded a micro library for Web Components
I know it seems like everyone is building micro this, micro that. Micro services, micro frontends a...
Why do recruiters hide the name of the company? 🤷♂️
Ugh, another recruiter just messaged me on LinkedIn about some opportunity at some undisclosed compan...
Did Electron just suffer a major setback at WWDC?
With the beta of Xcode 11, Apple made it easy for developers to migrate iPad apps to MacOS. Now I don...
Tech Interviews Are Broken. Let's Fix Them!
OK. Time to take a break from the “best” or “worst” interview questions and take a walk through probl...
Growing Up With A Mom In Tech
It's time to take a little break from coding and talk about something that really...
Why I ignore the hype (and you should too)
It’s been 20 years since I made my first website. I've been burned by the hype ti...
Which 2018 Mac is best for web development?
This mid-2015 MacBook Pro has been a workhorse for me but it’s time may be up! Th...