Jun 14, 2025 · 5 min read · A deep dive into building “The Best Piling Contractors in Ash Vale: McCance Group” website using modern frontend technologies. 🏗️ Project Overview In the competitive construction sector, having a fast, SEO-friendly, and visually appealing website is...
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May 25, 2025 · 6 min read · Photo by Alexa Williams on Unsplash Today, it is not a new practice to use Markdown files as a data source for (statically generated) blogs. I use it to write on my blog, powered by Next.js and Vercel. It comes with a number of advantages: 1. Simplic...
Join discussionJun 23, 2020 · 13 min read · Traveling is fun and we all have a lot of places we want to visit, but rarely do we have time to do it all at once. That’s what bucket lists are for! How can we create a custom mapping app that we can show all of our the destinations on our bucket li...
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Apr 28, 2020 · 8 min read · When starting to integrate 3rd party services into your application or website, you'll start to find it useful to have different environments, such as a development and production environment. How can we configure this so we don't have to directly e...
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Apr 22, 2020 · 14 min read · Previously, we walked through creating a map that shows an interactive look at Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases per country. How can we extend this with some case statistics to show recent data about the impacts on our world? Author's note: Similar to be...
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Apr 8, 2020 · 9 min read · Building maps can be pretty powerful, but often you’re stuck with open source options for the map imagery that might not help the readability of your data. How can we leverage Mapbox’s tile APIs to add a custom basemap to our React Leaflet app? What...
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Mar 31, 2020 · 12 min read · The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has swiftly changed how all of us interact day to day. How can we use available APIs to build a mapping app that shows the impact it has had on the world? Update: The original NovelCOVID API v1 endpoint has been de...
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Mar 24, 2020 · 14 min read · Get ready for the summer by building your own road trip mapping app with this step-by-step guide! What are we going to build? What do we need before we get started? Step 1: Cleaning up some unneeded code Step 2: Create our road trip locations Step 3...
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Dec 11, 2019 · 12 min read · The Christmas season is a magical time of year. We have Santa flying around spreading cheer and Elf roaming around New York during our yearly rewatch with family and friends. Buddy the Elf waving To get in the spirit, we’re going to spin up a web ap...
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Oct 31, 2019 · 41 min read · By Scott Spence I have been a Gatsby user since around version 0 back in May 2017. Back then, I was using a template called Lumen. It was just what I needed at the time. Since then I have gone from using a template to creating my blog. Over the year...
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