Throughout my career, I've had numerous friends and family ask me how would one gets started with web development today. With an sheer amount of courses and the variety of the topics in those courses, it can be very overwhelming and may seem harder to get anywhere with it all.
With my new site being built with Next.js, I needed to figure out a way to still provide RSS feeds and a sitemap using the MDX files as a source. I use `next-mdx-remote` from Hashicorp for the parsing and rendering of my MDX files and with the latest major version, v3, it got to be a little tricky so hopefully you'll find this helpful!
I've been a long-time WordPress user for my blog and thought it was about time for a change. I've been a big fan of Next.js for years now and even did a talk about it back at WordCamp Miami 2018, albeit with a non-working demo 😅. Since then, Next.js has come a long way with even more features.
Today in 2018, JavaScript is the most popular language to use on the web, according to the StackOverflow 2018 developer survey. But the JavaScript we know and love today, is not the *same* JavaScript from the 2000's or even the early 2010's. Let's dive in!
Arrow functions are a more concise alternative to the traditional function expression but they aren't appropriate everywhere. Let's check out some examples of times you would not want to use arrow functions.