In an app that I’ve recently worked on, I had to interact with 2 different APIs: a typical JSON-based API from a django project, as well as a “real-time API” which was coming directly from Firebase. …

In this article I’m going to present to you a way of handling your API errors once and for all in a centralized and easily extendable way, regardless of the state-management library (Redux, Apollo, etc.) that you are using. Almost every modern app interacts with an API for their data…

I recently had to implement a multi-language static website, so I thought Gatsby would be a fun choice; surely people have a lot of guides out there on how to do it. Turns out, implementing it the naive way is easy, but if you want to minify manual work and…

In this article I’ll attempt to share a few tips & optimization tricks that you should consider when aiming to minimize the footprint of your React app. I’m confident that after reading this article you will be able to reduce your bundle size by at least 5–10%, since I’ll start…

Do you have a designer in your team? Well, I do and he’s a grumpy one, let’s call him Jim. People normally go to Jim for all sorts of things; to let him know that they preferred the design they saw in another website, to complain about a particular interface…

Intro At first, these two (2) terms mind sound irrelevant to one another. After all UX (User Experience) is a different specialty and can’t be directly related to engineering, or can it? You see, engineers tend to view UX as an external study that decides the way the elements are positioned…

Sounds promising? Hopefully it will be! In this article I’ll attempt to demystify all you’ll need to know when developing a Chrome Extension. I’m positive that after reading this article, you’ll be able to easily develop your own extension without too much trouble. …

Amplify is perhaps one of the best libraries out there to create your application prototype. As things scale though, you find yourself in need of its modules in multiple places and as a result you directly import them in most of your components. At the same time, there is an…

Although the title seems clickbaity, in this article I’ll be talking about how you can use CSS to replace some of your JavaScript code in order to make your React apps more responsive. Before I even begin, I want to mention that the concepts laid out are mainly applicable to…