Ahmad Awais

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Next.js Absolute Imports and Aliases

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Ahmad Awais on May 25, 2020

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...

JavaScript

Deno: Learn by Example

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Ahmad Awais on May 15, 2020

Deno 1.0 has just been released. It seems to be pretty awesome. Learn deno with Awais and build a couple of example projects.

Web

Vercel is the new ZEIT

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Ahmad Awais on April 21, 2020

ZEIT just announced that they have raised a $21M funding and have rebranded the platform as Vercel. This is amazing news. I believe...

JavaScript

corona-cli <br>My Open-source COVID19 Tracking CLI...

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Ahmad Awais on April 17, 2020

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...

JavaScript

Introducing:
Gatsby Package Manager

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Ahmad Awais on February 20, 2020

The Gatsby Package Manager (gpm) helps you install a Gatsby package with all of its dependencies. It also allows you to read the docs...

JavaScript

Introducing Continuous Deployment for WordPress Pl...

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Ahmad Awais on February 3, 2020

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JAMstack: The Elegance of Markdown, Education, and...

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Ahmad Awais on January 20, 2020

I had the pleasure of talking with Bryan Robinson on his podcast called That's My JAM...stack. Cool name, right. I talked about how...

Life

Smashing Magazine:
Person of the Week

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Ahmad Awais on January 7, 2020

I woke up to a tweet by SmashingMagazine and learned that I (Ahmad Awais) am featured on the homepage as a "Person of the Week". I'm...

Web

What to Expect from the JAMstack in 2020

Posted by

Ahmad Awais on January 9, 2020

I was recently interviewed by Brian Rinaldi about JAMstack’s future in 2020. It was originally posted on StackBit’s blog...

JavaScript

⚡ Practical Guide to Serverless Microsoft Azure ...

Posted by

Ahmad Awais on June 14, 2019

As a Full Stack JavaScript developer, I am super excited about this relatively new FaaS or Functions as a Service offering that has...

Ahmad Awais

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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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 [...]

📢 Talk: Developer Experience & Developer Tooling — as A Developer Advocate

Yesterday, in the event of WordSesh I delivered a talk a topic that I am truly very passionate about; Developer Tooling — if it’s your first time here then let me prefix this article by saying that I love building and then open sourcing professional workflows with developer tooling. With hundreds of open-sourced automation tools and [...]