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Optimizing Website Performance and Critical Rendering Path
Does your web page’s rendering performance meet today’s standards? Bad rendering performance can translate into a relatively high bounce rate.
In this article, Toptal Freelance Web Developer Ilya Chernov explores the things that can lead to high rendering times, and how to fix them.
Ilya Chernov
Ilya is an accomplished engineer with over five years of experience working on remote and onsite teams, as well as leading other developers.
Maintain Control: A Webpack/React Tutorial, Pt. 1
When starting a new React project, you have many templates to choose from. These templates are able to support application development at a very large scale. But they leave the developer experience and bundle output saddled with various defaults, which may not be ideal.
Michael Pontus
Michael is a senior full-stack developer specializing in front-end development with React and TypeScript.
Building Reactive Apps with Redux, RxJS, and Redux-Observable in React Native
While Redux is a great state management solution, it doesn’t support asynchronous behavior by default. A way around this is to use redux-observable, based on RxJS - a powerful library for reactive programming in JavaScript.
Sourabh Verma
Sourabh has a broad and versatile skill set. His experience with mobile and back-end development enables him to build prototypes quickly.
Performance and Efficiency: Working with HTTP/3
HTTP/3 is on the horizon, but many aren’t even familiar with HTTP/2 yet. Find out what HTTP/3 means for web development, administration, and the internet.
Brian Wojtczak
Brian was a system administrator and network engineer before turning to software development in an effort to automate himself out of a job.
Lighter and Faster: A Guide to the Svelte Framework
Web applications are becoming more popular day by day with stable options like React.js, Angular, and Vue.js. However, a serious competitor may be on the horizon: Svelte.
In this article, Toptal freelance software developer Teimur Gasanov introduces Svelte, a new framework for building user interfaces. He does so by walking us through creating a common log-in form used by virtually every type of application.
Teimur Gasanov
Teimur is a full-stack developer who has worked mostly with JavaScript, Go, and Python. He is also experienced with Docker and Jenkins CI/CD.
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The Strengths and Benefits of Micro Frontends
Micro-frontend architectures decompose a front-end app into individual, semi-independent “microapps” working loosely together. This can help make large projects more manageable, e.g. when transitioning from legacy codebases.
Bob Myers
Bob Myers is a front-end architect who has consulted on large-scale projects in fields ranging from education and publishing to finance.
Integrating Stripe and PayPal Payment Methods in Ruby on Rails
Secure payment processing is a key prerequisite for any eCommerce operation. If it fails, the consequences can be catastrophic for any company, big or small.
In this article, Toptal Ruby on Rails Developer Henrique Reinaldo Sarmento outlines how you can create a Ruby on Rails eCommerce app, leveraging PayPal and Stripe for reliable and secure payments.
Henrique Reinaldo Sarmento
Henrique is a passionate full-stack developer and cloud computing enthusiast with experience in Ruby on Rails, Flask, Javascript and React.
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