Blog posts ✍️

A comprehensive guide to fixing common Next.js errors, including React component export issues, Client/Server component problems, and best practices for debugging Next.js applications.

If you are tired of getting these hydration errors, finally learn why the hydration error occur. This post covers how we can resolve the hydration error unhandled runtime error in Next.js

This post discusses the challenges and workarounds for passing context with React Server Components in Next.js. It highlights that creating React Context inside a Server Component is not allowed and converting the top-level component to a Client Component is also not feasible.

Are you an engineering leader struggling to manage your team effectively? You may be exhibiting some common anti-patterns, such as being too controlling or prioritizing personal relationships over constructive feedback. By recognizing and avoiding these patterns, you can foster a more positive and successful work environment. This blog showcases a breakdown of the different anti-patterns and tips for effective leadership.

Embarking on the journey to leadership is often met with questions about how to successfully seize opportunities and navigate challenges. To address this, we explore two paths: finding a role within your current company or seeking a new leadership position elsewhere. For now, we focus on thriving within your organization by following key strategies.

Covers 5 ways to use ChatGPT as an Engineering Manager. I discuss how managers can use ChatGPT to improve their efficiency and delegate tasks to focus on strategic work.

Covers ways you can handle managing underperforming employees. To avoid employees underperforming , clarify expectations, provide regular feedback, assess necessary skills and training, assess willingness to change, and align definitions of high performance. Plus get a checklist to download.

How you can manage up and take control of your career. This post covers some practical examples of getting your manager to love you and will open up doors for future opportunities and promotions.

These are some of the most common mistakes that new engineering managers that transitioned from individual contributor track make. Learn how to fix them in this blog post.

What's the difference between Next.js vs React and addresses frequently asked questions by developers. Which is best frontend framework in 2023?

This article shows you how to humanize the code review process, how to effectively create a pull request, how to give feedback on pull request and how to respond to feedback.

This post covers React Server and Client side components in-depth, some best practices, how to create shared components with code samples, differences between them and how it compares to Server side rendering in Next.js.

What Psychological safety is, how Engineering leaders can learn some strategies & best practices in teams and orgs to create psychological safety.

In this blog post, I will cover what SEO is, what are some best practices with SEO, provide you with real world SEO code examples in Next.js, screenshots of how your site will look like in a popular search engine like Google and you will take away some SEO tools with you towards the end of this article.

We often tend to visualize things 🔮 and concepts to understand them better. If you want to master Next.js, it provides many techniques to fetch data in a manner that is right for your use case. You need to know how and when to fetch it, that’s all.

We have yet again entered an uncertain time. This feels way too familiar for most of us since we experienced something similar when the pandemic hit. But we need to be more resilient this time as winter might be coming. As a lead, I have changed my strategies to show up as a leader for my teams and wanted to share them here.

In this blog post, I will cover why your switch to GQL and Apollo Client 3 should make you walk away from Redux. I will also talk about my journey from Redux to Apollo Client.

The best way to learn anything is to play with it on a project and build 👷🏼‍♀️ something. As I started learning about Lambda functions, I had this list of questions❓that kept coming to mind. To help you better understand Lambda functions, I’ve converted all of my questions, and their answers into a helpful blog post to get you started.

As a developer, I’ve noticed ever since starting out that a lot of us are intimidated by building accessible apps. The fact of the matter is, it doesn’t have to (and shouldn’t) be that way. Accessibility is just like building any other feature — and there needs to be greater awareness around this. If you’ve incorporated accessibility into apps before or want to integrate accessibility for the first time, then this post is for you. I’m going to use both web and mobile as an example.

If you are a React developer and know some basics of native development i.e. iOS or Android then you will pick up React Native easily i.e. not a noob. Although, it is not 1 - 1 relational. When I initially learned React Native, I forgot how my native development skills will be easily transferable.

Managing managers for the first time? Congratulations! Here are the five things you need to know next.

Explore Next.js's `use cache` directive for caching functions, components, and routes. Learn implementation, benefits, and practical applications, including enabling, controlling, and purging cached data. Includes lots of code examples and a interactive demo.