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Terraform for better or worse is frequently updated with new versions. Many of these introduce incompatibilities with previous versions that require manual rework of Terraform definitions as well as require updating the local or remote Terraform state. I originally developed a solution for deploying Next.js to AWS using Terraform version 0.12 and that has been … Continue reading Deploy Serverless Next.js to AWS with Terraform 1.1
There are many ways to stand up a REST API. Nearly every programming language provides a way for us to develop a simple web server, such as Express.js, Go Gin or Python Flask. However, with the advent of serverless computing, we need to rethink some of the fundamentals of how APIs are developed and deployed. … Continue reading Serverless API with TypeScript on AWS
TypeScript is an excellent language for writing AWS Lambda functions. Its flexible static typing allows for high developer productivity and since it can be transpiled into JavaScript, our code can be bundled into small deployment packages that allow for fast Lambda cold starts, without need for keeping 'warm' instances of our lambdas. I have recently … Continue reading TypeScript Types for AWS Lambda
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.
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
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
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
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
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