VSCode is the world’s most popular IDE, but the settings that VSCode comes with can feel too overwhelming and extra for most programming purposes. To solve this problem, I created my own minimal VSCode setup, free from clutter and distractions to help increase productivity and ease eyestrain during long coding…

In this tutorial, I will show you how you can access the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal for free on your mobile browser using JavaScript bookmarks. If you haven’t read my article on executing JavaScript using bookmarks yet, please do so now as you’ll need that knowledge moving…

Use bookmarks to execute custom JavaScript code on a website, & inject custom cookies onto websites on your mobile browser. — Most modern browsers today will have support for the developer tools feature, which enables us to analyze webpages and run custom JavaScript on those pages through the console. However, this feature is missing on almost all mobile browsers. If we want to execute custom JavaScript on our mobile devices, we’ll…

Note: As of VSCode version 1.74, the CustomizeUI extension will not work anymore. If you still want to use the extension, you must remain on version 1.73.1 or earlier. Welcome back to part two of my Minimal VSCode Setup series! In this article, I’ll explain how we can use the…

Welcome back to part two of my transitioning away CRA series where I talk about why you should stop using CRA and use another build tool instead. If you haven’t seen part 1 yet, go check it out! It’s Time to Stop Using Create-react-app (Part 1) React is the internet’s most popular library for building interactive user applications, and knowledge of how to use…liaogg.medium.com In this article, I’ll talk about one such build tool, Vite, and…

React is the internet’s most popular library for building interactive user applications, and knowledge of how to use frameworks like React are essential parts of every web developer’s toolbox. So how does one create a React application? Tutorials and developers on the internet only have one answer, and it’s a…

When I was publishing my Integrating Frontend with Backend series, I published some of my articles out of order. Unfortunately, Medium does not offer a way for me to rearrange my articles or edit their dates, so they’re stuck like that forever. Luckily, there is a way to create an…

Let’s start sending GET Requests in our React application! There are several ways to send requests, but in this tutorial we’re going to be using a library called Axios. I’ll explain things as we progress, but if something doesn’t make sense or if you‘re curious about how something works, don’t…

Before we start working with requests, we need to first learn about asynchronous code execution. Lets say that you want to do your homework, but you’re also very hungry. You have some frozen pizza in your fridge. The instructions says that you have to microwave it for 60 seconds before…