@lvidakovic

Moved to a new domain

May 4 · 1 min read · Hello to anyone that might reach this website! Just want to let you know that I've changed the place where I publish and build new things. You can find things I'm up to on apisurf.dev. Cheers!

My first thoughts on Next.js 13 and the new app router

Jan 13, 2024 · 5 min read · There are two good articles that touch on some of the concerns and annoyances I also share, but I'll try to cover some of my views about it. I had a chance to use Next.js 13 for a few weeks and noticed that some things make my job a lot simpler, whil...

JS Date constructor timezone oddity

Jan 10, 2024 · 4 min read · For a long time, I only did Date manipulation in JS via some date library that wrapped over the native Date object. There were always a lot of missing features on the native Date. But for some time now I've been listening to how date libraries are ra...

Testing complex flag conditions and ensuring complete case coverage

Aug 25, 2023 · 3 min read · Recently I stumbled upon an interesting test case where I needed to cover many possibilities and make sure everything continues to work as intended in the future. I had 7 boolean flags that needed to be used to toggle an app functionality. It's a bit...

Minimal example of file upload using Next.js app router

Aug 19, 2023 · 2 min read · Some old methods of accessing uploaded file contents inside a Next.js route handler don't work anymore or at least not in a way many tutorials explain it. E.g. many outdated online examples use page router which has route handlers that receive differ...