In this blog post, I want to show you how you can generate an OpenGraph image out of your React component. Personally, I love this approach, because I can leverage my frontend development skills to generate dynamic images (actually not only OpenGraph images). As already stated in the title, I…

Maybe you’ve read my article about Stripe and EU VAT (which thankfully is deprecated because of the release of Stripe Tax) if you wanted to integrate a payment provider for your SaaS. And maybe you also thought: why does it have to be so complicated? Most of the payment providers…

The last time I wanted to publish a npm package was in 2018. It was a React library which provided Components for creating Forms. It wasn’t straight forward to publish such a library back then. …

Over the last years many different React component libraries got released. For example Ant Design, React Bootstrap, MaterialUI. They all battle-powered us with components we‘ve needed in day-to-day UI development, but none of them changed the way I develop as ChakraUI did. Chakra brings new paradigms on the plate and…

It was in 2010 (at the time of writing this it’s already 11 years ago 😱) when I started my first side project in software development. I was 16 years old, still in technical high school, already a bit into programming and hungry for more. Some days ago Felix started…