Learn about building modern applications.
I've written a couple of posts about how to set up JavaScript and TypeScript Monorepos over the past three years (#1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7), and I kind of thought I had it all figured out - but I didn't. It turned out that for various reasons it is fiendlishly difficult to develop … Continue reading The Ultimate Guide to TypeScript Monorepos
This post introduces a tool to keep your Yarn workspace and TypeScript project references in sync automatically.
I have been doing some research on how to do speech to text conversion. Initially, I thought there may be a good iOS app that I could simply use on my iPhone. But while there were a number of apps available to support dictation most of these seem to be focused on allowing you to … Continue reading Amazon Transcribe for Dictation
Please find an updated and extended version of this post here: The Ultimate Guide to TypeScript Monorepos. Project references in TypeScript are an amazing feature for building complex TypeScript projects. They enable dividing a large project into smaller, indepedent modules and thereby improving code organisation as well as compile times; since it is easier for TypeScript … Continue reading TypeScript Monorepo with Yarn and Project References
Next.js 11 includes an exciting new feature for dynamically optimising images using the <Image> tag. Unfortunately, this new feature does not play nicely with exporting a static version of the Next.js app using yarn next export by its very design. This is not great for serverless deployments, which often will rely on uploading the static … Continue reading Next.js 11 Images with Static Export
I was quite excited when I discovered that it is possible to embed gist links into WordPress blog posts, and they will render as syntax highlighted code: Gist embedded in Lambda Go Starter Project Since I write most of my posts in Markdown I would previously provide the code with Markdown code blocks, but these … Continue reading Do not use WordPress gist embeds
Serverless development allows deploying low-cost, low-maintenance applications. Go is an ever-more popular language for developing backend applications. With first rate support both in AWS Lambda and GCP Cloud Functions, Go is an excellent choice for serverless development. Unfortunately, setting up a flexible infrastructure and efficient deployment pipelines for Serverless applications is not always easy. Especially … Continue reading Lambda Go Starter Project
Next.js is an awesome framework for building websites and web applications. I have covered Next.js in multiple posts on this blog, such as Next.js with Bootstrap Getting Started. One of the advantages of Next.js is that it can generate static or server-side rendered versions of pages developed with React. This is great for making it … Continue reading Optimse Next.js SEO
AWS Lambda is a cost efficient and easy way to deploy server applications. Express.js is a very popular Node.js framework that makes it very easy to develop REST APIs. This post will go through the basics of deploying an Express.js application to AWS Lambda. You can also check out the sample project on GitHub. Develop … Continue reading Express.js on Lambda Getting Started
Next.js is becoming ever more popular these days and rightfully so. It is an extremely powerful and well-made framework that provides some very useful abstractions for developing React applications. An easy way to deploy Next.js application is through using Vercel. However, it can also be useful to deploy Next.js application into other environments to simplify … Continue reading Deploy Next.js to AWS
The Full Stack Blog 