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Lazar Nikolov

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The Environment variables type safety and validation with Zod article featured image creatures.sh
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Jan 7 2024

Environment variables type safety and validation with Zod

Using process.env directly in your project means you're double or triple checking the names of the environment variables. You can use Zod to validate if all of the environment variables are set, and to automatically get types for them.

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The CSS Container Queries article featured image creatures.sh
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Aug 30 2023

CSS Container Queries

CSS Container Queries are a new way to write CSS that allow you to scope styles based on the size of a containing element rather than the size of the viewport. In this article we're going to learn all about container queries.

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The CSS Style Queries article featured image creatures.sh
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Aug 30 2023

CSS Style Queries

CSS Style Queries are a new way to write CSS that allow you to scope styles based on the size of a containing element rather than the size of the viewport. In this article we're going to learn all about style queries.

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The Getting started with CSS Nesting article featured image creatures.sh
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Aug 12 2023

Getting started with CSS Nesting

CSS Nesting used to only be possible in CSS preprocessors like Sass and Less. But guess what, it’s now part of Native CSS! Let's see what's CSS Nesting and how we can get started using it.

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The Rødecaster Pro Review - Is it worth the investment? article featured image creatures.sh
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Apr 7 2023

Rødecaster Pro Review - Is it worth the investment?

The RØDECaster Pro does look really good, but is worth the investment? Here are the pros and cons of the Rødecaster Pro.

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The Distributed Tracing in Next.js article featured image creatures.sh
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Mar 8 2023

Distributed Tracing in Next.js

Distributed Tracing is the process of tracking the flow and timing of requests as they pass through a system, which helps us understand the performance of that system and identify bottlenecks. In this article we'll explore the pros and cons of distributed tracing.

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The Creating and using API Routes in Next.js article featured image creatures.sh
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Feb 10 2022

Creating and using API Routes in Next.js

How to create and use API Routes in Next.js

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The Creating custom layouts in Next.js article featured image creatures.sh
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Feb 10 2022

Creating custom layouts in Next.js

A guide on how to create Single Shared layouts and Per-Page layout in Next.js

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The Using Next.js's Static Generation method article featured image creatures.sh
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Feb 10 2022

Using Next.js's Static Generation method

How to use Next.js's Static Generation method to provide data in your pages at build time.

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The Using Next.js's Server-side Rendering method article featured image creatures.sh
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Feb 10 2022

Using Next.js's Server-side Rendering method

How to use Next.js's Server-side Rendering method to render your pages on the server-side.

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The Generating blurDataURL for remote images in Next.js article featured image creatures.sh
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Dec 19 2021

Generating blurDataURL for remote images in Next.js

in this article we're going to learn how to generate blurdataurl for remote images in next.js.

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The A simple change improved Chakra UI's PageSpeed significantly article featured image creatures.sh
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Dec 18 2021

A simple change improved Chakra UI's PageSpeed significantly

I’ve noticed that the PageSpeed scores for https://chakra-ui.com were not that great. I know that we’ve built the page using the best practices, but for some reason the scores weren’t what we expected.

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