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Aphinya Dechalert

Aphinya is a skilled tech writer with field experience in software development, agile, and fullstack JavaScript. She is a dev advocate and community builder, helping others navigate their dev journey.

Another Weekend, Another Feature Deployment

Another Weekend, Another Feature Deployment

Another weekend, another feature is released — well, that’s the current game plan and so far. The thing about building apps is that we often come up with grand plans, only to have them fall short because we ran out of time. This is where consistency comes in. There’s

How to create rainbow gradient text colors in CSS

How to create rainbow gradient text colors in CSS

Rainbow gradients are everywhere. They're cool and fun looking. The text is also fully readable by bots. Here are some cool examples in the wild: Vercel - cloud platform But how is it done? The magic lies in linear-gradient, -webkit-background-clip and -webkit-text-fill-color Here's the quick code

CSR Module Loading in Next.js — because sometimes you just need it to work like React

CSR Module Loading in Next.js — because sometimes you just need it to work like React

Don’t get me wrong, Next.js is great. I love it. It works. I don’t need to deal with routing because it’s already baked into the framework. You can write APIs and the inner workings won’t be exposed on the client side. It’s also React

5 Ways to Structure Your React App Files

5 Ways to Structure Your React App Files

React is great. It gives us a ton of freedom to do what we need to do. However, with great freedom comes the increased potential for a project that’s structurally mangled. When I first started using React, all the tutorials were pretty basic with file structures that were linear

12 Free University Courses That Will Teach You How To Code

12 Free University Courses That Will Teach You How To Code

Or pay a fraction of the price if you want to certificate Let’s get real — University education can get expensive. Or perhaps you’re contemplating switching careers but don’t want to spend 3 years back in school. You don’t need a degree to get into programming. The

Deno is the new Node.js — well, sort of…

Deno is the new Node.js — well, sort of…

Why did the guy that made Node.js make a new Node.js? It’s been three years since Ryan Dahl — the same guy behind Node.js — hatched Deno into the world wide web. This opensource and V8 runtime powered serverside has over 80k stars on GitHub, 42k followers on

Next.js is the next best thing — but what’s the catch?

Next.js is the next best thing — but what’s the catch?

Looking into another React extension Next.js is a popular open-source JavaScript framework for developing server-side rendered React applications. It’s simple, lightweight, and efficient, making it an ideal choice for small- to medium-sized projects. In a nutshell, the framework enables you to get up and running with React quickly