This post was originally published on https://tomekdev.com/posts/effective-titles-and-more. What you see as a GIF here is interactive there.✌️ This is not an SEO guide on how to write effective titles or (maybe I should say) how to create clickbait. No. We are going to talk about the technicals. …

This post was originally published on https://tomekdev.com/posts/input-and-form. Go there to read a bit more interactive and style richer version ✌️ I often see in Single Page apps a situation where someone uses just an <input> field. Sometimes in the accompaniment of<label> if you happen to work with a pro 🌟…

Feature flags are in our DNA now. I don’t remember how we were rolling out complex features before. But this is a pretty advanced technique and one can run into traps. Let’s go through bad practices and learn something from them. I cry when feature flags don’t want to die That’s the biggest managerial mistake I see. Feature flags…

React Native has changed the way we do mobile apps. We absolutely love it. But there is another technology that deserves an award. It’s MJML by Mailjet. Email tech is bad I don’t know a front-end dev who enjoys creating templates for emails (they rather hate it). It’s just the dark ages again. There…

This post was originally published on https://tomekdev.com/posts/anchors-for-headings-in-mdx. What you see as GIF here is interactive there. ✌️ How to add anchors to headings in MDX? It’s surprisingly easy to do. …

We are getting very religious about it but we love our bi-weekly Alignment meetings so much that we have to share a few words about it. Who enjoys meetings? Once a sprint, in the first week of work we gather all our front-end developers for an hour and talk about stuff that connects…

This post was originally published on https://tomekdev.com/posts/highlight-text-in-javascript. What you see as GIF here is interactive there.✌️ In the previous post about search with typo tolerance, I added a few interactive elements to demonstrate the idea of how we can improve search functionality on the page by being more tolerant to…

… and will be in 2021 in my opinion. Here is why, but first: A bit of background Phorest is a company with a product that has evolved a lot in the last decade. Its main application is a desktop app that talks to a database in the Cloud (AWS). Being in the process…

This post was originally published on https://tomekdev.com/posts/powerful-start. Go there for slightly nicer code snippets. ✌️ I’m not a huge fan of “the art of the start” articles because, after all, starting in a non-optimal way is worth more than not starting at all with a head full of knowledge that…