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Frontend — Client-Side Routing In Next.js — Smashing Magazine

Client-Side Routing In Next.js — Smashing Magazine

Next.js has a file-based routing system in which each page automatically becomes a route based on its file name. Each page is a default exported React component from the pages directory that can be used to define the most common route patterns. This article will guide you through almost everything you need to know about Routing in Next.js and point you in the direction of related topics and concep

AAAdebiyi AdedotunAdebiyi Adedotun·June 18, 2021Frontend
Frontend — CommonMark: A Formal Specification For Markdown — Smashing Magazine

CommonMark: A Formal Specification For Markdown — Smashing Magazine

Markdown is a powerful markup language that allows editing and formatting in plain text format that can then be parsed and rendered as HTML. It has a declarative syntax that is both powerful and easy to learn for technical and non-technical folks. However, due to the consequential ambiguities in its original specification, there have been a number of distinct [flavors (or custom versions)](https:/

AAAdebiyi AdedotunAdebiyi Adedotun·December 3, 2020Frontend
Frontend — Getting Started With Next.js — Smashing Magazine

Getting Started With Next.js — Smashing Magazine

Next.js is a React framework that is bound to ease your life as a React developer by abstracting away the common and redundant tasks (such as routing) into relatively simpler and powerful APIs. That way, you can focus on writing your apps instead of reinventing the wheel. This tutorial will be beneficial to developers who are looking to get started with Next.js or have already begun but need to fi

AAAdebiyi AdedotunAdebiyi Adedotun·October 22, 2020Frontend
Frontend — Comparing Styling Methods In Next.js — Smashing Magazine

Comparing Styling Methods In Next.js — Smashing Magazine

Among others, [Next.js](https://nextjs.org) has dubbed itself: *The React Framework for Static Websites*. But just like every other framework whose goal is to help you build what matters by abstracting common, redundant tasks, you’re often required to learn something new and opinionated. With Next.js, one of the things you need to know is how to integrate different CSS methods with its API, and th

AAAdebiyi AdedotunAdebiyi Adedotun·September 17, 2020Frontend
Frontend — How To Use Styled-Components In React — Smashing Magazine

How To Use Styled-Components In React — Smashing Magazine

Styled components are “visual primitives for components”, and their goal is to give us a flexible way to style components. The result is a tight coupling between components and their styles. While the component-driven approach has ushered in a new frontier in the way we build web applications, it isn’t without its imperfections — one being its usability and scalability with CSS. This has given bir

AAAdebiyi AdedotunAdebiyi Adedotun·July 23, 2020Frontend
Frontend — Using Formik to Handle Forms in React

Using Formik to Handle Forms in React

There is no doubt that web forms play an integral role in our web site or applications. By default, they provide a useful set of elements and features — from

AAAdebiyi AdedotunAdebiyi Adedotun·April 28, 2020Frontend