Blogposts
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✨ 2022 - my year in recap
2022 was a year that flew by so fast, I've gotten amazing opportunities and a lot of lessons learned. In this post, I put them all in a list.
Published: December 31, 2022 by Elian Van Cutsem
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🎤 Optimizing React using Astro
9th of November, I gave a Keynote at React Global Summit. This blog post contains my slides as well as some extra accompanying speaker notes.
Published: November 9, 2022 by Elian Van Cutsem
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🎤 Less JavaScript, Faster Website
14th of October, I gave a lightning talk at React Brussels. This blog post contains my slides as well as some extra accompanying speaker notes.
Published: October 14, 2022 by Elian Van Cutsem
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♻️ Using Firebase JSON config for redirects
I started out my blog about a year ago, at the time, I didn't really think about a good URL system, which came back biting me in the ass.
Published: August 17, 2022 by Elian Van Cutsem
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🚀 Deploying to Firebase using Google Cloudbuild
Deploying to Firebase can sometimes be somewhat of a hassle if you're using the CLI. There is a better way using some sort of CI/CD, Cloudbuild is the example explained here.
Published: August 11, 2022 by Elian Van Cutsem
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🚀 Deploying to Firebase using Github actions
Deploying to Firebase can sometimes be somewhat of a hassle if you're using the CLI. There is a better way using some sort of CI/CD, Github actions is one example explained here.
Published: August 10, 2022 by Elian Van Cutsem
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✨ Using Bun as JavaScript runtime
Bun is a new runtime for JavaScript & TypeScript, compatible with NodeJS packages and ecosystem.
Published: July 6, 2022 by Elian Van Cutsem
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🚀 Deploying Astro on Deno
Astro came out some time ago with a SSR Deno adapter. I never tried it out before, So I thought I should give it a try!
Published: May 6, 2022 by Elian Van Cutsem
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📈 Using @elianvancutsem/mostvisitedpages as a serverless function
I've moved from a regular RESTful API to serverless functions. Here is a little guide and explanation on why & how I did that.
Published: May 2, 2022 by Elian Van Cutsem
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♻️ Upgrading my website to Astro v1.0
Astro came out with a beta version of the v1.0 release of the framework. I upgraded my website to use that version, since I was still running on v0.24. The following are some of the changes I had to do to get it working.
Published: April 26, 2022 by Elian Van Cutsem
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💄 Tailwind CSS in Astro
Since Astro 24, the documentation of Tailwind CSS in Astro has disappeared. Not because it's not supported, but because it now holds true to the Tailwind CSS documentation itself. If you still need a guide on how to use them both, look no further!
Published: April 23, 2022 by Elian Van Cutsem
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🎤 Less JavaScript, Faster website - Astro
20th April, I gave a lightning talk at the Full Stack Ghent meetup. This blog post contains my slides as well as some extra accompanying speaker notes.
Published: April 20, 2022 by Elian Van Cutsem
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💄 Using Tailwind CLI with Blazor
Last year I wrote an article about using TailwindCSS with Blazor. It was a struggle, since Blazor had to be tricked to install and compile TailwindCSS NodeJS. Now that TailwindCSS launched a new tool, Tailwind CLI, it's time to try it another way!
Published: December 16, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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🔍 How I automated SEO to fit my needs
It's been some time since I started writing posts and articles about programming and related. Since the start, I've always invested time in SEO, over time, I have integrated a system that now works for me. This is an explanation how I did that.
Published: December 10, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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💄 Use TailwindCSS with Sveltekit (2021)
Earlier this week, Sveltekit beta got released, ofcourse I wanted to fiddle with it.
Published: December 5, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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🔧 Set your NodeJS version in Netlify
A couple of times I needed to fix the NodeJS version on a Netlify site, I found myself googling it a couple of times, so this little how-to is basically a note-to-self.
Published: December 3, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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🎉 Write less code by using CSS Houdini
Some time ago I started looking into CSS Houdini. Today was finally the day that I wrote a package to replace some of my shitty code with some CSS Houdini magic
Published: October 13, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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👽 Use API magic to show your most visited pages
A while ago I had an idea for a feature which would show the most frequent visited pages upon a 'page not found' error. After I let it sit for a while, I realized that this might be possible by using the Google Analytics API. Here's a guide.
Published: October 4, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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💄 What's new in TailwindCSS v3
TailwindCSS v3-alpha-1 was released yesterday! It's not a full release of v3 yet, but might already give us an insight on what is to come with TailwindCSS v3.
Published: October 3, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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♻️ Using PNPM on Netlify
When I first switched my website over to PNPM instead of Yarn, I noticed that my Netlify build were failing. Here's a guide and solution to everyone having the same issue.
Published: September 27, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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✨ Using slots to build layouts in Astro
Coming from frameworks like NuxtJS and NextJS, I always liked the layout feature. It's a quick way to reuse shared components without re-importing them in every page. When I started with Astro, I had no idea that this was also possible.
Published: September 25, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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✨ Setting up Nuxt with Pug and Stylus
Nuxt is really cool all by itself but can even be cooler when combined with another templating engine. In this example I'll use Pug and Stylus to fiddle around.
Published: September 1, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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📝 Add your blogposts to your Github README
Github profile README's are a very cool and personal way to tell something about yourself. One of the downsides to this is that it depends on a static format. Well, this is not necessarily true. Through the power of code and Github Actions, we can use JavaScript and generate a static file.
Published: August 26, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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🥳 Describe your commits using Gitmoji
Describing your commits can be a difficult task. You can write down everything you changed or improved, or you can let the code speak for itself. Gitmoji makes this a whole lot easier by using emoji.
Published: August 20, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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🚀 Using Surge.sh to quickly deploy a static site
Deploying a static site is made very easy and free by Surge.sh, in this article I explain how it works, what it is and why you should use it.
Published: August 14, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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✨ Moving on from Netlify to Google Cloud
Hosting your website online is one of the basic and required steps to build an online audience. Choosing the right platform to host it, can be a difficult process. In this blogpost I clearify my choice.
Published: August 11, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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💄 Adding Google Fonts to your NuxtJS site
I found out that my fonts weren't loading properly, so I searched for an alternative.
Published: May 7, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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💄 Writing your own style components with TailwindCSS and Sass
having TailwindCSS classes everywhere in my markup annoys me. That's why I tought of a better way of styling with TailwindCSS
Published: April 13, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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⬆️ What does TailwindCSS 2.1 improve?
TailwindCSS 2.1 just got released, but what does it bring and improve?
Published: April 5, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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📈 Add custom tracking events to your nuxt site with GA4
Tracking with GA4 can be very useful, here's a little guide on tracking things you find important with custom GA4 events in Nuxt
Published: April 5, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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🚀 Deploying a React Native app to netlify
Deploying a mobile application does seem complicated, but Expo makes it very easy!
Published: March 31, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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✨ Monetize your content with Coil
Ads are annoying right, Coil adds a new way to get paid for every second spent on your content.
Published: March 29, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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💄 Sveltekit with TailwindCSS
Earlier this week, Sveltekit beta got released, ofcourse I wanted to fiddle with it.
Published: March 26, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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🚀 Deploying my website to Netlify using Github
I've used github to manage the sourcecode for my website for a long time, github pages came with it. Now I discovered a better way to deploy and host websites.
Published: March 22, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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⚡ Add TailwindCSS JIT to your Nuxtjs site
TailwindCSS just came out with a new feature called @tailwindcss/jit. here's how you can add it to your Nuxt site.
Published: March 18, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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✨ What is TailwindCSS JIT and how to use it.
TailwindCSS just released a new feature @tailwindcss/jit. In this post I explain what it is and how to use it.
Published: March 16, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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📈 Adding tracking to your Nuxt site with GA4
Tracking your users' action on your site can be very helpful, but it isn't always as straightforward
Published: March 15, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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💄 Configure TailwindCSS with Blazor
I started a WASM Blazor project and wanted to use TailwindCSS, but it has a lot of configuring to do with it.
Published: March 12, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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💫 Adding a custom preloader to your nuxt site
I added a custom preloader to my Nuxt site. It's not that difficult, here's how I did it.
Published: March 12, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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💄 Using KonvaJS as canvas with React
I was in need for a HTML canvas that was easily integratable with React or JavaScript, then I found Konva
Published: March 11, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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✨ Pairing React-native with TailwindCSS
I wanted to make a react native app with tailwindcss, but couldn't find a template... So I made my own.
Published: February 20, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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💄 Tailwind with sass
Found myself struggling with tailwind config with sass preprocessor, so I figured I'd share a solution
Published: February 16, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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✨ Using Valet for local PHP development
Valet is a highly configurable MacOs tool for webdevelopment running in the background
Published: February 12, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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💄darkmode in TailwindCSS
How to add dark mode support in TailwindCSS
Published: February 9, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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🎉 Initial commit
This week I've recreated my website and blog with Nuxt and Bootstrap, in this post I describe how it all came together.
Published: February 3, 2021 by Elian Van Cutsem
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