The Blog
Thoughts, mental models, and tutorials about front-end development.
September 28, 2024
Nesting a Button Inside a Link
Discover whether you can nest a <button> element inside an <a> tag.
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July 14, 2024
Gradient Border is Unexpectedly Hard
A simple gradient border is not as simple as it seems.
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April 21, 2024
How to Create Fully Reusable React Components
Creating a component is fairly easy, but doing them correctly is a different story.
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March 03, 2024
Advanced React Patterns
List of react advanced patterns complete with examples.
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December 31, 2023
The 2023 Retrospective
Graduation, Tech Writing, First Job, Mentorship, and more!
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December 06, 2023
A look at React hydration and pre-rendered HTML
Learn how React hydration works and how to troubleshoot the hydration error
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July 20, 2023
Understanding Next.js Data Fetching (CSR, SSR, SSG, ISR)
Thorough explanation on Next.js data fetching method such as CSR, SSR, SSG, and ISR.
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April 10, 2023
The biggest Next.js boilerplates of 2023
The top Next.js boilerplates from several tech stacks to match with your needs
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March 10, 2023
Next.js Authentication using Higher-Order Components
Solve problems such as colocation, and error-prone code
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December 31, 2022
The 2022 Retrospective
Surabaya, Covid, Apple Developer Academy, Projects and more
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November 02, 2022
React Core Concept II: useEffect
An in-depth look at the useEffect hook in React with a mental model
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May 10, 2022
Understanding Swift's Value and Reference Types
In-depth explanation of Swift's value and reference types.
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April 02, 2022
7 Form Components For React Hook Form I Always Use
Building forms with validation is tedious and repetitive, using reusable component will help building faster.
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January 13, 2022
How to set up Storybook with Next.js and Tailwind CSS
Complete configuration and setup for Storybook with Next.js and Tailwind CSS
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January 12, 2022
Styling Best Practices I Use With Tailwind CSS
Tailwind CSS helped a lot when developing a consistent design cleanly and rapidly.
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January 05, 2022
One-stop Starter to Maximize Efficiency on Next.js & Tailwind CSS Projects
Increase your efficiency by using preconfigured starter repository, with rich development features and automations.
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December 31, 2021
The 2021 Retrospective
My retrospective of the year of 2021. Achievements, recognitions, and lessons learned.
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November 29, 2021
React Core Concept I: Rendering & useState
Do you wonder why do we use hook instead of normal variable? This will help you redefine some concepts.
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November 13, 2021
React Loading State Pattern using Toast & SWR
Easily manage react loading state with React Hot Toast and SWR custom hooks.
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November 12, 2021
How to show Now Playing in Spotify with Next.js
Spotify API grants us access to know what is currently played on your Spotify.
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November 12, 2021
How to choose between Next.js CSR, SSR, SSG, and ISR
4 Metrics and examples of how to choose the right fetch method for the right case.
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September 18, 2021
Mindfully Commit with a Descriptive Message
These guides and set of rules can help us to understand what is going on just by looking at the git log.
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July 19, 2021
Back To Basic: Mental Model to Understand Flexbox
These are the mental models that I use to really understand flexbox, and I hope these can help you to understand too.
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May 18, 2021
Next.js Redirect Without Flashing Content
Next.js is a static site by default, so redirecting unauthenticated user sometimes can be a problem.
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May 02, 2021
Looking at Vite, A Build Tool Faster than Create React App
Create React App has always been the default for making a React Application, is there a faster way?
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April 24, 2021
Curated List of Browser Extension I Personally Use
These great extensions helped me a lot during development, especially number 1 and 5. I encourage you to try it.
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March 11, 2021
Back to Basic: Should we use Rem, Em or Pixel?
Differences between rem, em, and px unit, and some use cases
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February 04, 2021
Back to Basic: UI Design Fundamental
7 fundamental that you can really use to make your design better
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January 29, 2021
Back to Basic: Flexbox or Grid?
My practice on how to choose between flexbox and grid.
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January 20, 2021
Learning Web Development from YouTube
List of youtuber channels that I watched to learn Web Development.
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January 19, 2021
Create React App vs Next.js
What's the difference between Next.js and Create React App?
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