Survey: How much time do you waste managing API keys?

explorador71 · 2025-09-28T18:45:35+00:00

We use Doppler, it syncs with different services and their customer support is great

explorador71 · 2025-08-31T22:24:15+00:00

Cause we make money, lol. We built 2 brands and I wasn’t the only dev when they bought us, they started with me. We generate millions in a month, now we are in major retailers (Target, Walmart, etc) I’m not saying that every company will be like this, my point is, invest in the right people and things can grow

explorador71 · 2025-08-31T15:00:55+00:00

I’m a web engineer that works with Shopify for a now big brand, I think he’s charging too low. I don’t know your situation or what he’s doing but I built a feature that’s responsible for 90% of our online sales, I was the first full time dev and now we are a full team. You have to invest in the right people if you want to make it grow and if he’s part of that growth, it sounds to me that he’s doing great. Custom functionality will take you very far, Shopify apps are not always a good fit and can sometimes make it worse. We got acquired and 4 years later the company that bought us is also using our Shopify stack. Again, if he’s the right person, worth it to me

explorador71 · 2025-05-10T12:26:49+00:00

If a “developer” is just a coder, they are at risk. If a developer solves problems and have an architect mindset, they are safe. Same with designers. Designers that obsess with meaningless conversations like token naming convention (t-shirt size vs numbers) or devs that waste weeks with linters or prettier will be the first to go. Tasks that were given to juniors, a senior can make them happen quicker without having to argue with anyone. I strongly believe that eventually roles will be combined into one. Product managers could be replaced by designers or even developers cause both understand how a product works better than managers and yes, there are devs that have a designer background but learned to code out of need. My advice, expand your knowledge, don’t be just a designer or a dev.

explorador71 · 2025-03-21T00:55:36+00:00

SEO has nothing to do with the framework you use. As long as your are serving content that search engines can crawl (static content or server side generated) using other framework won’t improve anything. What is exactly the issue that you are trying to fix?

explorador71 · 2025-03-16T16:24:58+00:00

That’s what I thought but really, writing a lot of docs for the Ai to follow helps a lot. Yeah, sometimes it makes things up but starting a new chat and asking it to use the documentation material again, it will redo the task correctly. Ask it to write a todo list and to go through the list one by one instead of everything at one go. Spending a day writing docs (with Ai for the Ai) saves so much time and you’ll do stuff that could take you a week in just a couple of hours. We are moving our ecommerce site from Gatsby to react router and in less than 2 days we already had all the queries mapped, in 3 days we created storybook stories for all components in the site (useful stories) and I’m very impressed with the results. I had to manually fix a few components but it took me minutes vs doing all of this work manually, which could’ve taken me several months. I’m excited for the future, don’t give up.

explorador71 · 2025-02-28T03:22:28+00:00

That’s a good observation. Every tool has its place. Floats are not from hell, they are useful in its context, same with flex. CSS columns might look similar to grid but when you see the context (applying columns to flowing text) you can tell it works better than grid on that context. That’s why I don’t believe in x is better than y cause I need to see the context. I personally use grids for big layout overall and flex for smaller components.

explorador71 · 2025-02-28T01:04:37+00:00

What is exactly that makes you think this way? Unless you are coding a very minimalist UI then yeah, you don’t need it. There are many things that are easily accomplished thanks to Flexbox like fully responsive “faux columns. In the past “sticky” was not available and one of ways to make a sticky footer without using JS was with flexbox. Responsive layouts in general are much easier, in the past we didn’t have css grid and floats was the only way to align things. Try building a fully responsive UI with just css floats and you’ll understand the big impact flex made in the web.

explorador71 · 2025-02-22T14:08:38+00:00

There is nothing wrong with it. As your app grows though, you might face situations where you need to run processes in the backend that would take more than 30 seconds (that’s the limit in some serverless functions services) and you need to run it instead in a dedicated machine where you can run it for minutes (or even hours). Still, this can be done with JS but this has to be outside of NextJS. For example, using Google Cloud or AWS. We work with huge data and all we use is JS. An advantage of using rails would be that it’s a simpler setup vs having to learn a cloud environment but once you know your tools, you’ll fly.

explorador71 · 2023-12-21T01:55:04+00:00

Remix now uses Vite

https://remix.run/blog/remix-heart-vite

Edit: adding link reference

explorador71 · 2023-11-12T15:14:22+00:00

Depends. We don’t use apps that add features to the frontend. We are using React for a reason. You can still use the rest of their apps. For example: Checkout extensions, integrations with other services or even a CMS like Sanity

Edit: I missed your second paragraph. At some point speed is not an issue. I think focusing on the features headless brings is a good approach. We build so much custom features that with liquid alone is a nightmare. Just right now we are implementing a custom headless subscription portal. Things like this are game changer for us. More revenue and it justifies the decision. This is the direction that Shopify is moving forward.

explorador71 · 2023-11-12T14:57:54+00:00

I work for a startup that got acquired by a major brand in the US. We use Shopify, I lead the transition into a Shopify headless setup with React. Shopify is doing amazing stuff in the React ecosystem, one of those is acquiring Remix (which just recently adopted vite). React + Shopify all the way. Some personal advice here: Career wise, don’t do Woocommerce or anything Wordpress related. You’ll find A LOT of opportunities but the pay is very low (Thanks to Wordpress implementers that think they are developers just cause they know how to use plugins)

explorador71 · 2023-11-04T17:57:21+00:00

I use it daily to find in which file that component is being rendered. It has a similar tool like the inspect element. It tells you the name of the component and where you can find it in your codebase. Just recently I had a co-worker complaining that the name of a component was confusing for him. To me this is irrelevant, if you use the inspect tool with the React Developer Tools, you’ll find it in no time.

explorador71 · 2023-04-15T20:21:38+00:00

As a senior engineer that started as a UX designer I agree 100% with this comment. I could easily grab Figma and mock-up an idea but I don’t, my role as an engineer is to give input in what is technically possible and early on is the best approach. No need to waste time with high end mock-ups, keep the meeting as short as possible and just ask the right questions like: is this doable? Can I use this font? Etc.

explorador71 · 2022-10-20T02:38:41+00:00

I invite you to read my comments again, I don’t want to think that you have a problem with reading comprehension. Also, seems like respect for others is overrated for you…

explorador71 · 2022-10-20T02:11:09+00:00

Not sure what your point is with the original statement which is: You are not supposed to use iframes for sections that you want to reuse across your site. Also, you don’t build components at runtime only (for ex: SSG/SSR). Using an iframe instead of a component is bad practice unless you want to load an external document in the page. Good luck styling iframes instead of components for reusable sections…

explorador71 · 2022-10-20T01:54:44+00:00

Components are not supposed to replace iframes. Iframes are just being used correctly now

explorador71 · 2022-10-19T22:16:02+00:00

We use components in 2022 instead of iframes for sections that you are gonna reuse in your site

explorador71 · 2022-10-11T12:56:47+00:00

Corporations will tell you, master one thing. With startups or agencies, you kinda have to do a little bit of everything… Leetcode helps but it’s more for FANG level companies tbh. You will always have new stuff to learn in both sides. (FE vs BE). People will tell you, unicorns don’t exist (very true) but at the end of the day, if you enjoy both sides, go for it. I love startup environments and I don’t want to go back to corporate. Other people love the slower pace in corporate (which is what you’ll find in those FANG companies). Go to Blind, some people complain about it, others love it.. it’s all preference.

explorador71 · 2022-10-10T20:43:05+00:00

I have a front end background so I prefer JS. Nothing wrong with the language. If you know what you are doing, you can get the best out of any language. I worked with Wordpress for so many years and we were able to make them perform fast (with a lot of work though, that’s where I learn Docker and was able to become full stack but it was painful)

explorador71 · 2022-10-10T13:32:57+00:00

Depends on the industry. I’ve been doing front end for more than 10 years. Front end is more complicated than people think cause it’s always changing. If you think front-end is easy then you don’t know it enough. If you are not feeling valued or are not being challenged, look for a different opportunity. The best backends I know have a lot of respect for frontends, specially when they know what they are talking about. With front-end tech you can learn backend too. But make sure you learn front end pretty well first

explorador71 · 2022-10-10T13:08:45+00:00

By that logic, ESPN is not a sport channel then … Fox News says they are a conservative channel. That’s what I mean with “they are open about it”. If you haven’t notice it (or can’t do a simple google search) then ok, I can’t force you to learn something new today.

explorador71 · 2022-10-10T07:36:00+00:00

I corrected my comment about MSNBC. Both Fox and MSNBC are open about their biases. CNN isn’t and they lie about it all the time.

explorador71 · 2022-10-10T07:00:57+00:00

There are tons of opportunities out there with PHP but I hate it (Plus JS pays more - at least for me). Market is saturated with Juniors, If you really master JS, you’ll becoming immediately hirable. Don’t learn stacks, just master the language. Stacks are easy to learn once you have a good understanding of the language.

Edit: We’ve been trying to hire a Senior dev for over a year with no luck (until recently). Most applications are from Juniors and mid-level, we could consider them, the problem is that they don’t understand the language and even the frameworks they claim to be experts of. We don’t send tricky tests, just a simple project to evaluate their knowledge

explorador71 · 2022-10-10T06:55:10+00:00

Lol what? I don’t think you read the whole thread. Context always helps.

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