Boost your developer experience up a knotch! — What is Vite? Vite is an interesting project! It is a set of tools that come together to give you a blazing fast developer environment. When using Vite in a React project, you can start a development server within half a second. …

Simplify how you manage your repos! — What is a monorepo? When I first joined Shutterstock around two and a half years ago, I was unaware of the challenges of managing a repository that has over 100 collaborators. This was my first contact with the concept of a monorepo: a singular repository containing a multitude of different projects. Water cooler talk…

A refactor well worth the effort. — Why host MERN apps on Vercel? The MERN stack is at a crossroads: it is still a hugely popular stack behind a lot of production applications but it’s popularity is being attacked by the Jamstack. Sometimes it makes sense to refactor an application to migrate it to a framework like Next.js …

Learn the least expensive way to host your Express API — AWS Lambda with Serverless Framework AWS has always been the leading provider of serverless services. The most famous service they offer in their serverless lineup is by far AWS Lambda. Lambda provides an unique opportunity to simplify how we think about Micro-Services. However, let’s get down to business and see how we can use it…

Get your REST API deployed in less than 10 minutes! — Vercel Serverless Functions Vercel, the company behind Next.js and the SWR fetching library, has a nice serverless offering. They recently came out with zero configuration deployments. These deployments open the door to really fast project setup and deployments. …