I recently finished a really big refactoring from NextJS 13 to NextJS 14, mostly prompted by the server actions stuff, allowing me to entirely drop a publicly exposed GraphQL service, and do everything in backend Postgres. That all worked wonderfully. Very pleased with that – any time I can delete stuff and yet maintain the … Read more
A simple one on the surface of it, but I couldn’t find a quick answer. Hopefully this saves you some time Let’s say you have a Google Sheet where you have a bunch of rows, and you want to count the total number of rows in a range dynamically. In other words, when you add … Read more
I recently had to do a proof of concept site using NextJS 14. I hadn’t used NextJS since version 11, and who knew how much could change in 3 major versions? The big change is the use of Server Actions, and then the App Router / /app directory, as opposed to the older client server … Read more
Right then, ready for something that seems like it ought to be super easy, but is infact a complete pain in the backside? Good, because in today’s post we are going to add a custom social icon in to display in the standard WordPress social icons block. No plugins needed! That’s a bonus. But you … Read more
Today I needed access to an environment variable whilst building a Docker image from a Dockerfile. To make the example concrete, I wanted to get access to the Git commit hash exposed in a CircleCI build. The idea was to then use this commit hash inside my build as a cache buster on client side … Read more
In this post we are going to cover the Post Redirect Get pattern using NodeJS, Express, TypeScript, and for rendering things, Nunjucks and the Gov UK front end. This pattern is generic to any MVC implementation, and the concepts are very easily adapted. The Post Redirect Get pattern is for handling form submissions in web … Read more
There’s something super irritating to me about seeing a Jest test suite run and a bunch of noisy console logs get dumped out, mucking up the results. Here’s an example: At a glance, I find it’s pretty hard to know which of those tests is problematic. Even with the coloured console output, the big expected … Read more
