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Introducing FeatWiz: Deliver the features your customers want 🚀

FeatWiz is a smart assistant that answers user questions, analyzes them, and suggests potential features and improvements—helping you build truly user-centric products.

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Alamin Shaikh

Full Stack Developer

Comparison

Frontend Mentor vs. DevCoach: Which one is right for you?

While both Frontend Mentor and DevCoach share a common goal, their approaches and features cater to different learning approaches. Let's dive into what makes each platform unique and which one is the best fit for you.

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Solopreneur

Introducing DevCoach: Master coding by building complete, real-world software projects 🚀

DevCoach provides real-world project ideas with step-by-step guides, actionable tasks, hints, and solutions to help you build end-to-end software projects tailored to your tech stack, skill level, and target industry.

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Alamin Shaikh

Full Stack Developer

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Build server-side pagination using the Next.js App Router

While client-side pagination is useful, server-side pagination is better for SEO and user experience. In this article, we will learn how to build server-side pagination using the Next.js App Router.

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Alamin Shaikh

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Create forms using Form Actions and the ‘useFormStatus’ hook in Next.js

Working with forms in a React app can be challenging. However, some of the latest React features make this task easier. In this article, we will explore these features and discuss how to create and manage forms more effectively.

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Role-based authorization using NextAuth and Next.js server actions

This article provides complete guidelines if you're looking to implement authentication and role-based authorization using NextAuth's JWT strategy with Google and Credentials providers and Next.js App Router with server actions (non-API approach).

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Alamin Shaikh

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Next.js App Router folder structure for full stack projects

In this article, we will explore the ideal folder structure for a full-stack project built with the Next.js App Router. This includes the separation of client and server code for improved developer experience and maintainability.

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Alamin Shaikh

Full Stack Developer

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Handle errors using the error middleware in Express.js

Inefficient error handling can create bad user experiences and even break an entire Express.js server. In this article, we'll walk through a step-by-step guide to creating an error middleware to handle errors efficiently in an Express.js app.

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Alamin Shaikh

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Express

Build forgot and reset password functionalities using Express.js

In this article, we'll walk through the code of building forgot and reset password functionalities using Express.js. We will go through the mechanism that prevents a user from resetting passwords more than once using the same link.

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Alamin Shaikh

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Express

Protect API routes using the auth middleware in Express.js

In this second article of the authentication series, we'll walk through the process of creating an auth middleware to parse HTTP-only cookies and protecting Express API routes using the middleware.

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Alamin Shaikh

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