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How to Learn Next.js in 2020

Arunoda Susiripala — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 04:09:20 +0000

Hey, I'm Arunoda(a former Next.js maintainer) & here's how my proposal to learn Next.js in 2020. This path is created for someone who has limited time to learn.

Learn some JavaScript & CSS
Learn React with Hooks
Start with Learn Next.js Guide
Think about an example app to build (or your product in mind)
Do first 12 lessons of Bulletproof Next
Start building your app

You will find many issues while building your Next.js app. Search for them on Google. If you didn't find something, maybe you are doing something wrong, or that's a known issue.

In either case, ask questions on Stackoverflow & Next.js discussions.

Reality 🤯

Let's talk about reality. You cannot do this in a few hours. Depending on your prior experience, it'll take a week or a month.

If you are new to web development, it will take up to a few months.

Happy Learning! 🔥

Unity: How to Build & Run on iPhone

Arunoda Susiripala — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 15:27:18 +0000

Recently I started playing with Unity & wanted to create a Game for iOS. But when I try to run it on my iPhone the process was not smooth.

I had to face some challenges (not with Unity) & here's how I fixed them:

If you are using Lighthouse, think about this

Arunoda Susiripala — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 19:13:27 +0000

Lighthouse is a tool that comes with Chrome, which we often use to analyze a website for performance, SEO, best practices, etc.

Recently, I discover a trend among developers who want to get the top score for their websites. Or they expect websites to have a 100% score.

So, I want to understand whether it's a good idea to optimize our apps for Lighthouse or not. Then I ran Lighthouse on a set of popular websites I use every day. Here's the result.

Do we still need Server Side Rendering with React?

Arunoda Susiripala — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 15:58:56 +0000

If we want to talk about Server Side Rendering with React, we should speak of Next.js. Here's my analysis of whether SSR is still relevant in 2020 or not?

You can also read my blog post: Hey Next.js, Is Server Side Rendering Dead?

Explore: Next.js Incremental Builds Support

Arunoda Susiripala — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 18:12:44 +0000

Next.js recently made some excellent improvements to Static Site Generation (SSG) functionality. Now you create static apps and get all the benefits while you can build them faster and re-generate pages on the server.

So, it's like taking all the great things from Server Side Rendering (SSR) and static site generation(SSG) and create something powerful.

Read more about Next.js Incremental Builds.