Brock Herion

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Web Development

This is series, I discuss things related to building web applications, usually for React and NextJS, but can include other things too like Svelte, Vue, and good ole' HTML, CSS, and JS

Articles in this series

Interacting with Hashnode's API with Next.JS and Apollo Client

Nov 3, 20216 min read

I finally got around to finishing up my website, brockherion.dev. One of the neat things I ended up doing was getting it hooked up with Hashnode's...

Interacting with Hashnode's API with Next.JS and Apollo Client

Creating Per-Page Layouts with Next.JS, Typescript, tRCP, and NextAuth

Jan 7, 20227 min read

I've been working on an application that has quite a few changing layouts. There's an overall layout that is shared between all pages and each page...

Creating Per-Page Layouts with Next.JS, Typescript, tRCP, and NextAuth

Building Reusable Components in React with Typescript and Generics

Feb 6, 20227 min read

How to use Typescript generics to build more reusable, more robust React components. · I'll be honest with you all, I'm kind of a neat freak about my...

Building Reusable Components in React with Typescript and Generics

Stop building REST APIs for your Next.js apps, use tRPC instead

Apr 4, 20227 min read

tRPC is a tool that lets you build scalable backends quickly, as well as provide type safety between your front and backends. · When I first started...

Stop building REST APIs for your Next.js apps, use tRPC instead

Using higher-order functions to build per-page layouts in NextJS

May 12, 20223 min read

Higher-order functions allow us to create an abstraction over how we set up our page layouts. · This article is a follow-up to a previous one I wrote...

Using higher-order functions to build per-page layouts in NextJS

I rebuilt my Next.js site in Astro. Does it live up to the hype?

Jun 28, 20226 min read

I spent a few hours rebuilding this Next.js site in Astro. Here's how my experience was with it and my thoughts on Astro as a whole. · Anybody who knows...

I rebuilt my Next.js site in Astro. Does it live up to the hype?