#DevtoNextjs

I spent the last couple of weeks building a website template for dental clinics, mostly to learn the...

Word searches are one of those puzzles everybody knows. Teachers print them for a quiet ten minutes,...

**I built a WhatsApp-style chat for developers — tired of Telegram spam DevChat is live:...

Everyone who plays Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle hits the same wall sooner or later: seven...

Master Next.js server-side caching: Data Cache, Full Route Cache, Request Memoization, unstable_cache, revalidateTag, and ISR — with production-grade code patterns.

Most business owners only care about their websites when they are launching it or when it breaks and...

My /projects page shipped 854 KB of HTML. Most of it was repeats: one SVG path 98 times, JSON-LD copies of other pages, row classes. How I found and cut each.

Most Chinese astrology pages stop at your birth-year animal. That is one of four parts. A BaZi chart,...

Short answer: for a logistics receipt system, use a backend-authorized direct browser upload with...

Upwork Scout, my AI-matched Upwork job alert tool, has a blog with 107 posts. Most of them were...

A while ago I ran curl against my own portfolio and got back half a kilobyte of HTML. The only...

A portfolio is a strange project. It has to be small enough to stay fast, but complete enough to show...

My 2023 Clerk demo guarded every route from authMiddleware. What replaced it in Next.js 16: a bare clerkMiddleware() in proxy.ts and auth.protect() per page.

The build log of Tintly, a free coloring site: the architecture, the bugs, the growth experiments and the real numbers, small ones included.

Hey DEV community! 👋 I'm excited to finally join DEV and share what I've been building, breaking,...

A step-by-step guide to adding a Tiptap-based rich text editor to a Next.js app that uses shadcn/ui, from install to saving and rendering content.

use cache stores a result, cacheLife decides when it goes stale, cacheTag lets you throw it out on demand. When to use each, and where TanStack Query fits.

An SVG product color preview from one transparent photo works, but the result depends on the photo’s tonal range. Measured, with what replaced it.

Next.js headers() set HSTS with includeSubDomains and preload, but the Vercel apex-to-www domain redirect still sent max-age only.

Every project teaches you something new. NovaTik has been one of my most interesting learning...