Proclamations a-la “PHP is dead” and “Stop using Next.js” are littering Medium. My reaction to one of those is almost always the same: there is no merit to it and the author is just an amateur, who hasn’t been long enough to be taken seriously. Just because there are perceived…

After a year of working on a monorepo with Yarn Workspaces and Lerna, we have learnt that Lerna is being deprecated, so we had to go back to the drawing board and come up with an alternative development pipeline for our multi-package application. Switching to Yarn 3 The newer version of Yarn ships with…

We often think of accessibility as something that requires extra development effort, treating it as a good-to-have feature, aimed at a small subset of users with special needs. But such line of thinking misses the mark and we fail to appreciate how accessibility standards can improve our day-to-day experiences with…

It was never about the money, and when I see a unicorn being turned into a fat milking cow, my heart bleeds. The new Medium experience sucks. Under the pretence of surfacing authors, they turned it into another scroll app. I used to always have something to read, now I…

Not so long ago, should anyone mention a “design pattern” my mind would wander off to plotting Scottish kilts and Polka dots, but the more I deal with and scale real-life interfaces, the more convinced I become that these principles not only have their place in front-end development, but should…

So you have an app or component library that you have created without create-react-app and you want to unit test it using Cypress. I had to go through some hassle to get that working with a custom webpack configuration, but it’s finally working, and here is my solution. 1. Install Cypress npm install…

I think state machines are a great fit for front-end development and they have been a part of my toolkit for over a year now. There are great FSM implementations out there, such as xstate and Robot, and they work well with React applications at scale, making complex user flows…

If you are maintaining multiple React libraries that cross-depend on each other, things tend to get cumbersome: you need to publish a new release of each library then pull the latest release everywhere it’s used. …

Technologies and standards powering the web are evolving fast, allowing us to do more with less and to achieve stunning user experience and performance with minimal investment of time and resources. If you are starting a new project today, you can leverage such great tools as Gatsby and Next backed…