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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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