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692 posts from Alex's blogs and newsletters, newest first. Thoughts on tech, data, policy, and philosophy.
Becoming a Developer in 2022
How to switch careers within 12-18 months...
How to create an One to Many Relationship with Auth in Python with Masonite
Using A Developer Friendly Web Framework in Python...
Auth with Express with JWT, MongoDB, and Postgres
For simple web development...
Simple Setup for Application Wide State in React
Sharing State Across Your React App with just React (No Redux or Recoil)...
MongoDB Relationships using Mongoose in NodeJS
Guide to Relating Data...
The Guide to How to Implement Authorization in any language and framework
Having Users Login...
Creating a GraphQL Based Habit Tracker with Hasura and React (GraphQL/Hasura 101)
GraphQL Made Easy...
Developer Team Work Best Practices (Git, Agile/Scrum/Kanban, CI/CD)
How to be part of a developer team...
My First React App - 2021 Intro to React
The Basics of React...
Comparing React Router 5, 6, and React Location
For simple web development...
Express Templating Cheatsheet
Sever Side Rendering for All the People!...
Methods of Starting a Quick HTTP Server from the Command Line (alternatives to liveserver)
For simple web development...
How to use Neo4j Graph Database in your Node Project (Express, Koa, Fastify, etc.)
Graph Databases are Cool...
Building a Full-Stack Todo App with Typescript, NextJS and Mongo - 0 To Deploy
Trying out the hottest framework around...
Pattern Matching in Javascript with alexmerced-patternmatcher
Like a Switch Statement on Steroids...
Walkthrough - Deploy Anything with Nginx
Getting Data from an external API...
Frontend Javascript Ajax/Http Request Guide
Getting Data from an external API...
Basic Authentication with Node/Express and Mongo
A Beginning oriented dive into databases...
The renaissance of server side rendering with Alpine and HTMX, Reactivity with Minimal JS
A Beginning oriented dive into databases...
3 Ways to make API Requests in React (fetch/axios, merced-react-hooks, react-request)
Getting Data from an external API...
Ultimate Plain Vanilla DOM JS & JQuery Cheatsheet
A Beginning oriented dive into databases...
Understanding Data and Databases 101
A Beginning oriented dive into databases...
Basics of Building a CRUD API with Node (no framework)
Learning the Node HTTP/HTTPS library...
Basics of Building a CRUD API with Typescript (NestJS and FoalTS)
Backend Frameworks with Typescript Support...