Derek Oware
Derek Oware

Derek Oware

Derek Oware

Derek Oware

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I'm a self-taught full-stack web developer (mostly-front end). I love experimenting and demystifying web technologies 🤩

Debouncing React Controlled Components

Sep 27, 20215 min read

Motivation What is debouncing? Controlled and Uncontrolled components Controlled Uncontrolled Debouncing Controlled components useDebounce...

Designing forms for mobile

Mar 29, 20212 min read

Designing forms for mobile can be a hiccup especially when it has many fields. I don’t know how many people know this; the on-screen keypad can cover...

Designing forms for mobile

Device Detection with the User-Agent

Feb 15, 20214 min read

Have you ever wanted to implement a feature for a specific platform or device? Like show a screen or some content to mobile users only or execute a...

Device Detection with the User-Agent

Improve your developer experience with VSCode snippets

Dec 18, 20207 min read

Code snippets are templates that make it easier to enter repeating code patterns. VSCode's snippets are just one big part of my coding experience....

Improve your developer experience with VSCode snippets

Error handling in Fetch vs Axios

Oct 12, 20202 min read

There's so much difference between Fetch and Axios but my focus is on error handling because it caught my attention in my previous project. Error...

Error handling in Fetch vs Axios

Upload user avatar with a custom upload button

Oct 7, 20203 min read

I recently wrote on how to customize the default upload button but I want to explore more into this topic and try other options. I designed an...

Upload user avatar with a custom upload button