The Jamstack way of thinking and building websites is becoming more and more popular.
Have you already tried Gatsby, Nuxt, or Gridsome (to cite only a few)? Chances are that your first contact was a “Wow!” moment — so many …
This is so cool. I mean, GraphQL is already cool. It’s very satisfying to write an understandable-looking query for whatever you want and then use that data in templates.
But what if you didn’t have to write the query at …
We all have a number of interests and passions. For example, I’m interested in JavaScript, 90’s indie rock and hip hop, obscure jazz, the city of Pittsburgh, pizza, coffee, and movies starring John Lurie. We also have family members, friends, …
Learning how to build GraphQL APIs can be quite challenging. But you can learn how to use GraphQL APIs in 10 minutes! And it so happens I’ve got the perfect API for that: the brand new, fresh-of-the-VS-Code State of JavaScript …
It’s cool to see progressive enhancement being done even while using the fanciest of the fancy front-end technologies.
This is a button in a JSX React component that has a click handler applied directly to it that fires a data …
GraphQL has all kinds of awesome tooling built around it. But like everything on the web, it ultimately comes down to data shootin’ across the ol’ network and responses coming back. If you need to talk to a GraphQL API…
Listen, I am no GraphQL expert but I do enjoy working with it. The way it exposes data to me as a front-end developer is pretty cool. It’s like a menu of available data and I can ask for whatever …
GraphQL is a query language for APIs that is very empowering for front-end developers. As the GraphQL site explains it, you describe your data, ask for what you want, and get predictable results.
If you haven’t worked with it …
And by “we’re”, I mean us, front-end developers ;)
Here’s the website that goes with this talk.
This is a talk I put together where I postulate that, over time, the breadth of what front-end developers are able to do …
I’m assuming most of you have already heard about Gatsby, and at least loosely know that it’s basically a static site generator for React sites. It generally runs like this:
