The Hidden UX: Mastering URL Design for Better User Experience

The Hidden UX: Mastering URL Design for Better User Experience

When you think of User Experience (UX), what comes to mind? Most likely, it’s the visible elements within an application window – what you can see, click, or swipe. But there’s a crucial aspect of UX that often goes unnoticed: the URL in your address bar. Far from being a mere technicality, the URL is […]

Essential JavaScript Features You Probably Already Know – But Here It Is Anyway

Essential JavaScript Features You Probably Already Know – But Here It Is Anyway

From time to time, I write real generic articles about JavaScript that may be common knowledge and/or that is featured in other websites and videos. These articles really serve myself a purpose. More like a “note to myself” – so instead of searching, I just go to my website and voila! Today it’s one of […]

Laracasts.com: a gold mine of content for Web Developers

Laracasts.com: a gold mine of content for Web Developers

I’ve been a Software Engineer for many years. And for the past few, JavaScript has been emerging with newer, better and shinier things. But like many others, I’ve been having a little bit of JavaScript fatigue. Lately, I’ve been looking to other frameworks with more stability. Something that I rely on – that will work […]

How to create an Accordion Block using React and WordPress’ Block API

How to create an Accordion Block using React and WordPress’ Block API

I was tasked with creating a custom component for our public website which runs on WordPress. Most commonly known as an “Accordion“, it is a section of a page where you can have a title and an expandable and collapsible directly underneath it. Usually a list of these items are blocked together – forming an […]

Let’s write a simple search component using React and FluentUI

Let’s write a simple search component using React and FluentUI

I’ve been using a lot of FluentUI lately. This is mainly because my work has chosen the Microsoft stack for our intranet portal. FluentUI keeps the look of our apps consistent across the board – so users won’t be able to tell custom code and off the shelf. FluentUI uses React under the hood, so […]