swc-or-babel.hashnode.devWhy Your Axios Call Fails with a CORS Error (Even When the URL Works in the Browser)The Bug I was trying to fetch daily horoscopes from a public API: https://horoscope-app-api.vercel.app/api/v1/get-horoscope/daily?sign=Virgo&day=TODAY Pasting the URL into the browser worked perfectly. I could see a JSON response like this: { "data...Jul 29, 2025·2 min read
swc-or-babel.hashnode.devI Finally Looked Into SWC vs Babel — Here's What I FoundHere’s what I found after going down the rabbit hole. What’s a Transpiler, Again? Both Babel and SWC are transpilers, they convert code from one version of a language to another. For JavaScript, that means turning modern syntax (like async/await, opt...Jul 27, 2025·2 min read
