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Lazar Nikolov

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Full-stack Dev | UI Designer

🔴 Streaming Web Dev on Twitch 🖋 Blogging about JavaScript and Design 🚀 Keeping my curiosity alive since 2012

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Portfolio Beef #1

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Sep 22, 2020 1 min read 658 views

Hello front-end engineers! Welcome to my first article of my new series Portfolio Beef. I'll be creating a series of free web design templates that you can use to "beef up" your portfolio. I encourage everyone to duplicate the template, code the webs...

My 2020 retrospective: the best and the weirdest year so far

Dec 21, 2020 10 min read 144 views

This is it folks! 10 more days until we kiss 2020 goodbye. Honestly, it was a weird year. A global virus outbreak. Who would've thought? I used to see that only in the movies, but never imagined if I'd ever see it in real life (fortunately it wasn't ...

Living with a migraine as a software developer

Nov 4, 2020 4 min read 639 views

Migraine affects 1 billion people worldwide. It's the 3rd most prevalent and the 6th most disabling illness in the world. It's worse than an ordinary headache. The attacks usually last between 4 and 72 hours. Whoever has, or had a migraine knows abou...

An easy React 17 + TypeScript + Tailwind CSS + NextJS setup

Oct 25, 2020 7 min read 212 views

NextJS is becoming a de facto framework for modern web development. In this article we will build a starter repo that you can use for every new project. Tech Stack: React TypeScript Tailwind CSS Next JS Creating a new project As with any new projec...

Debugging Next.JS

Sep 19, 2020 5 min read 1.1K views

What is Next.JS Next.JS is an amazing React framework created by Vercel. It allows the developers to create Server-side, Client-side or Static websites. Unlike the other frameworks, the rendering in Next JS is per page. That means, the "about" page c...

Improve your Design Handoff + free Figma Template

Sep 14, 2020 5 min read 1.4K views

Intro To build an awesome and successful digital product you need to do a lot of things. Things like planning, market research, build a prototype, design it, code it, ship it etc... To go through this whole process you need to go through lots of hand...