vercel + next — things i learned on the way — If you’re hoping for a Vercel/Next.js bash that’s the wrong post for it. I’m pretty much ❤in it. Coming from more monolithic architecture I faced a few problems though from which some I didn’t expect. …

When using CIs for things like testing/linting/building you usually use either a Jenkins server or one of the various CIaaS providers. Both are reasonable choices, Jenkins gives you the opportunity to do whatever you want. Services like travis-ci (i’m not affiliated, replace travis with whatever CI you usually use) give…

Things i wished i knew before — I recently had the pleasure to work with Intercom the first time in my life — and eventually decided to not use it in the end. That said, intercom is a great piece of software. It has a superior support team, fair pricing, a good documentation and is super easy…

Or: do no harm, write maintainable code — I currently have the glorious task at work to port a legacy react/jquery/materializecss codebase to react/material-ui. It’s a pain, and quite a big one. When I started this a few weeks ago I didn’t really realize what I was getting into — now I’m more aware then I was before…

infinite scroll/ load more — I’m currently working on my first pure graphql/apollo + react application and had the glorious task to implement lists which initially loads some items and then load more data when reaching the end of the page or pressing a button. The Apollo docs for these kind of things are really…

Episode 4 | protected routes and hosting — In process of writing the next.js meets firebase articles I got a lot of feedback and a few questions i want to answer in this article. how to implement protected pages how to host next.js applications outside of now Protected pages The concept of protected pages is easy: We do a client…

Episode 3 | validation rules and reading/writing data Introduction In the last two episodes we created a basic next.js application and authenticated our users via firebase oauth providers. It’s been pretty boring to far as we don’t even have any data in our firebase yet :’( So let’s change this! Firebase…

Episode 2 | Firebase auth — In the previous article we created a simple app which automatically shows a random welcome message. We only used mobx and next.js and did not yet touch on firebase. In this article we’ll add authentication via firebases’ google oauth provider and track the user state in a mobx store. It’s…

Episode 1 | next.js SSR fundamentals — Just recently I wrote about not using meteor any more as a “one size fits all” solution — not because meteor is bad — but because there’s other cool stuff which will no doubt convince you by giving it a chance. In this short tutorial series we are going to…