blog.larsbehrenberg.comThe Definitive Guide to Netlify Serverless FunctionsDemo (here) | Repo (here) With the rise of the JAMStack and the serverless approach, most of the things that used to require a backend are now handled completely on the front-end or through APIs. But sometimes this is not enough, and that's where "se...Mar 5, 2021Β·9 min read
blog.larsbehrenberg.comThe best way to load and use Google Fonts with React, Gatsby and NextJSGoogle Fonts are amazing and widely popular on the Internet. Its API makes up 89.28% of the web fonts market share (see source). However, I often noticed that many websites struggle with fetching their fonts and end up render-blocking their website b...Feb 17, 2021Β·5 min read
blog.larsbehrenberg.comTop 10 resources to get better at CSS and become a better front-end developer π¨βπ¨π¨βπ»Writing CSS is hard. Even though it often is made fun of and not seen as a programming language, writing consistent and pretty CSS is really hard. And in my journey as a self-taught web developer, I have often noticed that online classes and tutorial...Feb 12, 2021Β·7 min read
blog.larsbehrenberg.comTop 5 headless CMS and their pros and cons (Gatsby JS edition)One of the reasons why Gatsby JS has been so popular over the years is its vast plugin library that makes it almost as easy as drag-and-drop to add new functionality to your app. Because of that, Gatsby has managed to make adding a headless CMS a st...Feb 5, 2021Β·7 min read
blog.larsbehrenberg.comReact and Gatsby JS got me started ππ₯ But whatβs next?I have been a freelance web developer for a while now, but in the beginning, I was always wondering whether WordPress development is going to be the only way to create websites for my clients? I was looking for something to take advantage of my JavaS...Jan 29, 2021Β·11 min read