The React team introduced several hooks in React 16.8 which you can use from third-party providers in your application, or even create your own custom hook. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at some of the most useful hooks in React and how to use them. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/11/useful-react-hooks/
Dribbbleshots just might be the hotbed of questionable dashboards. Striking visuals, little context, and no research: all recipes for mediocrity. Mediocrity won’t do. We’ll pursue greatness. And in that pursuit, we’ll cover research, decluttering, and data visualization. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/11/dashboard-design-research-decluttering-data-viz/
Internationalized routing is not exactly a new feature on Next.js. In this article, we are not only checking what we get from this feature, but also how to leverage such functionalities to achieve the best user experience and a smooth developer experience as well. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/11/localizing-your-nextjs-app/
In this article, Leonardo Losoviz explains how Cloudinary’s integration can be used with WordPress to produce and deliver optimal digital experiences. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/11/transforming-optimizing-images-videos-wordpress-website/
A great commerce experience cannot be distilled to a single number. It’s not a Lighthouse score, or a set of Core Web Vitals figures, although both are important inputs. A great commerce experience is a trilemma that carefully balances competing needs of delivering a great customer experience, dynamic storefront capabilities, and long-term business — conversion, retention, re-engagement — objectives. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/11/hydrogen-react-framework-dynamic-contextual-per
Concept testing ideas before moving into a detailed design is good UX practice. In this article, Victor Yocco presents details on how and when to engage in concept testing, as well as case studies providing details on the insights gained in two very different settings. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/11/concept-testing-part-of-product-design/
In this episode, we’re talking about Astro. Will this modern static site builder launch you into the stratosphere? Drew McLellan talks to developer Matthew Phillips to find out. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/11/smashing-podcast-episode-43/
Within the last decade, technologies like GraphQL have changed how we build web apps and how they communicate with each other. GraphQL provides certain benefits over REST APIs — let’s find out what they are. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/11/graphql-frontend-react-apollo/
Serverless UI is simply a free, open-source command-line utility for quickly building and deploying serverless applications on the AWS platform. In this article, we will learn and cover everything needed on using Serverless UI to deploy our projects or serverless applications to cloud services providers. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/11/deep-dive-into-serverless-ui-typescript/
This article sheds the spotlight on Magento PWAs and explains why business owners are getting them (often instead of native applications). Alex Husar introduces ways of how progressive web applications can be developed on Magento, as well as go over the major pros and cons of each development path. https://smashingmagazine.com/2021/11/magento-pwa-customizing-themes-coding/