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Building Fluentic Style: Making CSS Debugging Work Across Next.js Server and Client

This is part of my Building Fluentic Style series, where I’m writing down the design decisions, tradeoffs, and small surprises from building Fluentic …

I built a body-doubling focus app: no camera, no booking, no signup to look around

I kept noticing that the thing stopping me wasn't what to do — I knew that. It was the act of starting. So I built Dopastep , and the whole design is …

From 1.2GB to 24MB: How I Sped Up Our Next.js CI/CD Pipeline by 4 in One Afternoon

The Situation Our team's CI/CD pipeline on Azure DevOps was taking 15 minutes to complete on every push to develop. You'd merge a PR, grab a coffee, c…

I Built a Free Invoice Generator for Freelancers — Here's What Shipping Solo Taught Me

Like a lot of freelancers, I got frustrated with the same two bad options for sending invoices: hand-formatting them in Word, or signing up for a full…

I built Loop – a social media platform with Co-Loops, Circles & Rewards. Looking for testers & feedback

Hey DEV community 👋 I recently shipped a side project called Loop – a social media web app I’m calling “social media reimagined.” Live link: https://l…

Four lessons from building AI, education, and healthcare products with Next.js

Over the last few years, I have built products in very different domains: generative AI, job search, education, and clinic operations. Although the in…

I Replaced ESLint and Prettier with Biome

I used to juggle ESLint and Prettier every day. Two tools. Multiple config files. Plugin conflicts. Slow checks. And that constant feeling that someth…

Coverage Before Creativity: The RAG Gate That Keeps My Blog Pipeline Honest

The first failure I had to eliminate in the blog pipeline was not a bad paragraph. It was a bad evidence set. The system was finding a few nearby chun…

Built 14+ Free Online Tools in Just One Week – Meet ToolEka

A week ago, I challenged myself to build a collection of free online tools from scratch. Today, I'm excited to share the first version of ToolEka 🎉 👉 …

How I Built a Peptide Dosage Calculator with Next.js — and Why SSR Matters More Than You Think

A researcher spends 30 seconds doing peptide math before every injection. I built a tool that does it instantly. Here's the surprising thing I learned…

AI Writes Code Now, So Why Is Everything Still Broken?

We're living in a strange time. On one hand, AI tools are spitting out functional code snippets, generating entire components, and even debugging our …

Strict Null Checks in TypeScript: What the Compiler Won't Tell You and Where It Actually Hurts in Production

Strict Null Checks in TypeScript: What the Compiler Won't Tell You and Where It Actually Hurts in Production I was reviewing a Server Action in Next.j…

From Enterprise Procurement Systems to Building Browser-Based Developer Tools

Over the last 14+ years, I've been working with the Microsoft technology stack, designing and delivering enterprise applications for procurement, inve…

How I built a high-performance Chinese learning platform with 100k+ TV clips using Rust and Next.js 15

Hi dev.to community! 👋 Today, I’m incredibly excited to share MandarinClips , a side project I’ve been pouring my soul into. It's a high-performance l…

Building an AI-Ready SaaS Discovery Engine with Next.js, PostgreSQL, and MCP

Software discovery used to be a straightforward search problem. A user typed a category, opened a few result pages, compared features, and selected a …

How I built a suite of self-destructing web tools on Cloudflare (solo, free tier)

Most cloud tools are built around saving things. But a lot of the time I don't want to save anything — I just want to hand something off for a few min…

How I Built a Free Image-to-Prompt Tool with Next.js and a Vision Model

Recently, I kept hitting the same wall in AI art: I'd find an image with a style I loved, but recreating it in Stable Diffusion or Midjourney meant gu…

Why I picked Astro over Next.js for my site

I've just launched my first personal site. I almost built it in Next.js anyway. Not from habit - I just knew Next.js by reputation. Huge community, sh…

PowerPulse II

The Problem I Was Actually Trying to Solve If you've lived in Ghana, you know "dumsor" — the unofficial word for unpredictable power outages. Your lig…

A Polyglot Feedback Platform: Django, Next.js, and Elixir Working Together

How to Review a Signup Regression After a Next.js Release

A signup regression after a Next.js release should not start with panic. It should start with a narrow review. The dangerous version is familiar: a de…

How I Built Prokaash: A Dynamic NFC Business Card Infrastructure From Scratch

Hey developers! 👋 ​I'm excited to share my latest full-stack project that I’ve recently completed—Prokaash. It is a modern, dynamic NFC business card …

useFormState and useFormStatus in Next.js App Router — React 19 Form Handling

React 19 introduced two hooks specifically for server action forms: useFormState and useFormStatus . Together they solve the main UX problems with for…

Bidwatch - Search Live Ebay Auctions Ending Soon

This is a submission for Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition What I Built I use ebay.com a lot as a passionate card collector to find auctions. It's su…

How I Built a Lightning-Fast Utility Hub with 50+ Tools Using Next.js

Hello DEV Community! 👋 As developers, we constantly rely on various mini-tools throughout our day—whether it's generating a quick hash, formatting a m…

How I Took a Site From 69 to 96 on PageSpeed by Fixing One Script Tag

I run a small Next.js site (free browser-based file conversion tools). Yesterday I ran PageSpeed Insights on mobile and got a 69 — "needs improvement,…

My First Large-Scale Next.js Project Taught Me More Than Any Tutorial Ever Could

Lessons from building more than 40 responsive pages for a production application with an international development team. When I first started learning…

I rebuilt the same SaaS backend five times. So I turned it into one SDK.

I build SaaS products with my brother. After shipping five of them, I realized I'd rebuilt the exact same backend (auth, Stripe, multi-tenancy, workfl…

How I Built an AI-Powered Reverse Hiring Platform with Next.js, Supabase, and OpenAI

# How I Built an AI-Powered Reverse Hiring Platform with Next.js, Supabase, and OpenAI The hiring process is fundamentally broken. Candidates send hun…

The Complete Redbelly EligibilitySDK Integration Guide: Widget to Backend to On-Chain

The Redbelly Network EligibilitySDK is the compliance backbone for any dApp that needs to verify user eligibility (KYC, KYB, investor accreditation) b…