When I have written about my React tech stack for next year, lots of developers [ 0 , 1 ] were almost confused by my suggestion that you might not need a form library in React. In my experience, developers have often overcomplicated form handling (in React). Many immediately install a form library alongside their initial React setup. However, I…
There are always new technologies coming out in the React ecosystem. In this article, we will explore one (!) popular React tech stack for full-stack applications in 2025 which will allow you to create your own product (i.e. SaaS) or at least the MVP of it. Why would I write this guide in the first place? I have been working on many projects for…
When building React applications, fetching data is a common task. In this article, we'll explore different data fetching patterns for React components across client and server. It's important to note that this article is not about the different ways to fetch data in React applications , but rather about the patterns for fetching data in React…
React is becoming a full-stack framework with React Server Components and Server Actions. While React Server Components (RSC) allow us to read data in the UI from the database, Server Actions enable us to write data back to the database. Certainly UI and database will be close and simple in a small application, but in a larger application, there…
When submitting a form in React with a form action, you may be confronted with the question of how to handle the FormData when submitting it to the server with an action. Let's start with a straight forward example where a user can create a invoice by using a form. When a user submits the form, the data is sent to the server with a form action…
Against the common opinion that one should charge for value as a freelance developer, over the last years I've made the experience that I like to charge for time. Here comes why I charge my rate based on time and not on value as a freelance React developer ... Scope Creep All of my past clients -- who hired me as a React freelance developer -- were…
When submitting a form in React with a Server Action, you may be confronted with the question of how to (not) reset the form after the server action has been executed. Depending on the framework that you are using on top of React, the form may either reset automatically or you have to reset it manually. The default behavior of a form in React is…
Authentication is an important topic of any application. It's the gatekeeper that ensures only the right people can access the right resources. But how do you roll your own authentication in JavaScript & TypeScript? In this tutorial, we'll explore how to build a session-based authentication system. The motivation behind this tutorial is the…
I explored Authentication in Next.js 15 using Next's App Router, React Server Components (RSC), and Server Actions. This comprehensive tutorial covers hand rolling your own authentication for sign up, sign in, sign out, and protected routes. If you want to go beyond this with the implementation of password change, password reset, forgot password…
In the world of client-side React, React Query is the industry standard for data fetching. However, in this tutorial, you'll learn how to fetch data using React Hooks without any third-party libraries. This approach helps beginners grasp the fundamentals of state and effect management in React, and understand how to build custom hooks. The custom…
