Tailwind CSS is a popular utility-first CSS framework that claims to help you create custom designs faster and easier. However, not everything is happy with Tailwind CSS. In fact, there are many reasons why you should avoid using it and stick to plain CSS or other frameworks. …

Web development is evolving rapidly with the emergence of serverless functions and edge computing. Serverless functions let developers focus on code and logic, without managing servers, scaling, or infrastructure. Edge computing moves computation and data near the end users, enhancing performance and reducing latency. However, these scenarios require JavaScript runtimes…

Angular and React are leading frameworks for building web applications with JavaScript. They each have unique strengths that explain their immense popularity. As a developer with experience in both ecosystems, I appreciate what each one brings to the table. However, React offers certain capabilities that have left me longing for…

CSS preprocessors like Sass and SCSS revolutionized stylesheet authoring by introducing useful capabilities not natively supported by CSS. These tools extend CSS syntax and functionality to help developers write more concise, maintainable, and dynamic stylesheets. Sass and SCSS are two of the most widely used CSS preprocessors. They are based…

According to HTTP Archive, as of November 2018, images make up on average 21% of a total webpage’s weight. Image optimization can improve the performance, user experience, and SEO of your website, as images are often the largest and most impactful assets on your web pages. In this article, we…

Is Angular dying? This is a question that many web developers have been asking lately, as the popularity of Angular seems to be declining in recent years. Angular is a front-end framework that was created by Google in 2010 and has since undergone several major updates and changes. Angular is…

Next.js supports both static and dynamic rendering of web pages. Static rendering means that the HTML content of the page is generated at build time and served to the browser without any server-side processing. Dynamic rendering means that the HTML content of the page is generated on demand by a…

Google Firebase and AWS Amplify are two popular platforms that offer backend as a service (BaaS) solutions for web and mobile app development. They both provide a range of features and tools that simplify the development process and enable developers to focus on the frontend and user experience. But how…

Llama 2 is the next generation of large language model (LLM) developed and released by Meta, a leading AI research company. It is pretrained on 2 trillion tokens of public data and is designed to enable developers and organizations to build generative AI-powered tools and experiences. Llama 2 outperforms other…