Ahmad AwaisSince Next.js v9.4 you have the ability to use absolute imports or aliases for your import statements. I love this feature with all...
Ahmad Awais
I help businesses understand developers 📟 Currently recording Node.js CLI Automation Course 👨🏫 Edutainer at VSCode.pro 🎩 An award-winning open-source engineer and developer advocate 🦊 Google Developers Expert for web 🌳 Node.js foundation Community Committee member ✌️ Author of various open-source dev-tools and software libraries used by millions of developers worldwide ⓦ WordPress Core Developer 📣 TEDx Speaker 🙌 Leading developers and publishing technical content for over a decade 😂 Self-confessed tech comedian cracking silly jokes in the JavaScript web and cloud communities 💜 Loves his wife (Maedah) ❯ Learn more about Awais ↣
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Next.js Absolute Imports and Aliases
Since Next.js v9.4 you have the ability to use absolute imports or aliases for your import statements. I love this feature with all my heart.
Ahmad Awais
Making Google Fonts Load ~20% Faster
Google fonts now use the display=swap property to make the CSS file load in async fashion. Gain ~20% faster page load by preconnecting and preloading Google fonts.
Ahmad Awais
Developer Experience (DX) in one word?
Developer Experience (DX) is the experience of using a developer using or extending your product (meant for developers), API, open-source code, or just about anything that has to do with developers. As a consultant who helps businesses understand developers, this term DX is thrown around a lot and probably heavily discussed. It’s fun [...]
Ahmad Awais
Deno: Learn by Example
Deno 1.0 has just been released. It seems to be pretty awesome. Learn deno with Awais and build a couple of example projects.
Ahmad Awais
Vercel is the new ZEIT
ZEIT just announced that they have raised a $21M funding and have rebranded the platform as Vercel. This is amazing news. I believe in the mission of making it easier to build, deploy, and ship web apps. Read why I'm so excited about Vercel and Next.js
Ahmad Awais
corona-cli
My Open-source COVID19 Tracking CLI Tool
While trying to keep up with COVID19 I built a CLI to avoid all the UIs and bad information out there. Picked a couple of authentic sources (listed at the end) and built a command-line tracker. Open-sourced it and everyone liked it, got trending on #1 in the JavaScript category for days.
Ahmad Awais
How I Built My Own Teaching Platform
In this post, you’ll learn how I built my own Learn Management System (LMS) to launch my courses (VSCode.pro and now NodeCLI.com). This is a compilation of two posts I wrote back in 2017 and 2018. Mostly random thoughts instead of an actual blog. Here goes nothing… If you have ever been to a conference where I gave a talk, or if you [...]
Ahmad Awais
Vercel + Cloudflare Domain Setup (formerly ZEIT)
ZEIT is awesome, so is Cloudflare. Learn how to set up a Cloudflare domain with ZEIT Now with full SSL and CDN capabilities. Set up the domain and test if it works well.
Ahmad Awais
#1 JavaScript Developer on GitHub Trending Worldwide
It's always an honor to be featured among over 40 million developers on GitHub that have created 44+ million repositories. It's probably my 3rd time.
Ahmad Awais
Introducing:
Gatsby Package Manager
The Gatsby Package Manager (gpm) helps you install a Gatsby package with all of its dependencies. It also allows you to read the docs for a package right there in the command line — without having to browse any sites.
Ahmad Awais