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Building a demo app with an LLM is easy, because you don’t need it to work perfectly. What happens when it goes to production and 10-20% of the time the LLM hallucinates or provides an incorrect response? As we’ve seen in the headlines, this is unacceptable. LLMs are probabilistic, not deterministic, meaning they can give…

I’m currently building an eCommerce checkout app, and I’m using Cypress for end to end testing. I ran into some issues and learned some tricks I’ll share with you here. If you aren’t familiar with the term e2e, it means testing the whole app from the user perspective. In my case, that would be add…

When using a GraphQL client like urql, one of the issues you may run into is that your query and mutation responses are not typed. For example, let’s say we have a cart query: When we use this query, it would be nice to see autocompletion in our editor, as well as errors if we…

When you are building a component library, or working on a large project, one of the issues you will run into is having too much logic in your components. If your component starts to look like this, it’s time to create some custom hooks: If you have multiple components using state and effects in a…

When creating reusable React Components, either in a library or for your own use, you need a flexible way to style your components. There are 2 parts to this, what library or style system should you use, and then how do you implement that? Regarding the what style system to use, you have a lot…

When building reusable React components, it’s tempting to make black boxes. That would be something like this: At first glance, this looks fine. You have a specific use-case for this component, you got a design and it is used in a single place, and it works perfectly for that. You built it in a way…

I’ve been working with headless WordPress for about 7 years now, first at AppPresser working on mobile apps, and now at GoDaddy working with Ecommerce. The things I’ve learned can’t be distilled into one blog post, but these are the most important ideas that can trip you up when starting a new project. wtf is…

When creating a component in React, we can use props like this: This works, but there are a couple of downsides. If your component has a lot of props, and a lot of logic, it can make a large file that is hard for other developers to read. You may want to reuse that logic…

Everyone knows mobile is important, and statistics get thrown around all the time. Many of them are outdated, or not that relevant, so here are a few that are recent and interesting. Stats are taken from statista.com, shopify.com and insiderintelligence.com. According to Baymard, mobile UX is getting better but still not very good.

In 2013 I had an idea about creating mobile apps for WordPress websites. I approached some partners and we launched AppPresser in early 2014. I have had an incredible time learning and growing as an entrepreneur and developer. 8 years later I am starting a new adventure. I am very excited to announce I have…