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
Author: Max Rohde
Do not use WordPress gist embeds
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
Lambda Go Starter Project
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
Optimse Next.js SEO
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
Express.js on Lambda Getting Started
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
Deploy Next.js to AWS
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
Overwrite Author in Git History
With every commit, git records the name of the author as well as the committer along with their respective email addresses. These will be public once you push your project to GitHub. So sometimes it may be advisable to change the email addresses of the author and committer for all the past commits in your … Continue reading Overwrite Author in Git History
Next.js with Bootstrap Getting Started
Next.js is an open-source framework for React that aspires to reduce the amount of boilerplate code required for developing React applications. Key features that Next.js provides out of the box are: Routing Code Splitting Server side rendering I recently developed a small example application with Next.js and came across some minor difficulties when trying to … Continue reading Next.js with Bootstrap Getting Started
Strapi 2020 Quick Review
I have recently reviewed KeystoneJS for a little project I am planning. I found it overall quite good but lacking in a few aspects, particularly in the way migrations are handled (or not handled). After some research, it seems that Strapi could be a possible alternative to KeystoneJS and so I decided to give this … Continue reading Strapi 2020 Quick Review
KeystoneJS 5 Quick Review
I have recently started on a little project to organise the quotes that I have collected in years of reading (see kindle-citation-extractor). I originally got my quotes into Airtable but I quickly hit the limit for the free tier. I figured that it would be great if I could develop a simple database with a … Continue reading KeystoneJS 5 Quick Review
