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June 2021

Hacking the React AST for fun and profit โ€“ #CodeWithSwiz ep34

This is hold my beer level of hackery. It didn't work but we learned lots in the process.

Use Netlify's _redirects on Gatsby Cloud

Something always goes wrong when you change hosting providers. ๐Ÿ˜… For me it was redirects. A vital feature of any site migration.

A fun security bug with static rendering โ€“ CodeWithSwiz #31

The flash of unlocked content is great fun for any paywall

May 2021

Build privacy-focused blazing fast tweet embeds โ€“ CodeWithSwiz 30

Twitter embeds every tweet on your page as an iframe. Loads 1.2MB of JavaScript, makes 20+ HTTP requests and uses 100+ DOM nodes. ๐Ÿ’ฉ

Twitter embeds without JavaScript, pt1 โ€“ #CodeWithSwiz 29

Continuing our quest for better Lighthouse scores, more reader privacy, and less JavaScript we attacked the next biggest culprit ๐Ÿ‘‰ Twitter.

April 2021

Serverless file upload to S3 with NextJS and AWS Lambda โ€“ CodeWithSwiz 27

The Girl loves her daily cute photos, but she's bored of repeats. What if adding images was easier ๐Ÿค”

February 2021

Reverse engineer a GraphQL API to automate love notes โ€“ CodeWithSwiz 24

We used a man-in-the-middle attack to snoop an app's API traffic, replayed it in a GraphQL client, and successfully put it inside an AWS Lambda ๐Ÿค˜

React Bricks - visual blocks editor for NextJS #CodeWithSwiz 22

Tried a new visual editor for NextJS and CreateReactApp. Got a site up in 20min ๐Ÿค˜

January 2021

[CodeWithSwiz 21] useAuth beta support for Firebase ๐ŸŽ‰

It works! useAuth has beta-level support for Firebase Auth ๐Ÿฅณ I did not expect that to take 3 sessions.

[CodeWithSwiz 20] Adding Firebase support to useAuth, pt2

Firebase continues to be ๐Ÿ’ฉ. No wonder people keep asking for support in useAuth. Almost there โœŒ๏ธ

[CodeWithSwiz 19] Firebase Auth support in useAuth, pt1

Support for Firebase Auth is one of the most requested features for useAuth and I figured what the heck, how hard can it be?