Derek Oware

Derek Oware

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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, 2021 5 min read

Motivation What is debouncing? Controlled and Uncontrolled components Controlled Uncontrolled Debouncing Controlled components useDebounce hook Real-life use cases Motivation In my most recent application, I came across the need to debounce some f...

Designing forms for mobile

Mar 29, 2021 2 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 your form or the submit button making it difficult for users to click thus disrupting the sign-in/si...

Designing forms for mobile

Device Detection with the User-Agent

Feb 15, 2021 4 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 different an action based on the user's device I usually come across contents on sites that are clearl...

Device Detection with the User-Agent

Improve your developer experience with VSCode snippets

Dec 18, 2020 7 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. They make it super easy to get away with some boilerplate code. There are code snippet extensions for e...

Improve your developer experience with VSCode snippets

Error handling in Fetch vs Axios

Oct 12, 2020 2 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 handling is an essential part of every application we build thus needs to be done correctly. From the fe...

Error handling in Fetch vs Axios

Upload user avatar with a custom upload button

Oct 7, 2020 3 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 interface to upload a user avatar How to We'll start with our HTML <main> <input type="file" name="image...