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Google Adsense's new Anchor Ads are getting better, for it no longer shifts the layout i.e., no more Cumulative Layout Shift(CLS.) But at the same time, it removes the dismissal button, so the Ads stay on the page bottom and overlay the footer beneath. I don't find the option to turn on the dismissal (close) button, but figured out the way to fix this by using some custom Javascript.

React's key point is 'state', and 'key' attribute is special and powerful. When a key changes, React will create a new component instance rather than update the current one, so the useSate will be called in the component.

Using "router" as a Dependency is useEffect is dangerous because it could cause an infinite page re-rendering. The better to fix this is using "Router" directly imported from "next/router"

For a constantly changing information site, it's better to display the last updated date on the website so that the visitors can have a better sense of the age of the data. Here are two ways to do it with NextJS.

Today, I learned that we could use @aws-sdk/client-ssm to retrieve Secrets from the secret manager as well. That is called Referencing AWS Secrets Manager secrets from Parameter Store parameters.

I set the VIM background as dark color on Mac since I set it up, but recently it's changed to white. After some investigation, I found that the color files are missing.

By default, MongoDB has no enabled access control, so there is no default user or password. But you can only access it via Localhost. Here is my default setup after installation.

You probably don't need another tutorial about installing LAMP on MacOS, because there are tons when you Google. This post is pretty much the notes for me, but I am happy to know if find it helpful.

My client's website is using AWS Amplify to handle the user log-in via AWS Cognito. As of aws-amplify-react@4.x.x, the Authenticator is not styled, so we had installed the aws-amplify/ui 2.0.3, and then imported the style from '@aws-amplify/ui/dist/style.css'. But it stopped working after updating to V3. Here is the solution.

Everyone hates the server is down, but it happens sometimes. It's better you have a backup plan, that you can quickly switch to, but if not, at least you need to put the site in the maintenance mode, so your visitors won't be surprised by seeing the 404 or 500 error. In this article, I would like to show you how to put on a maintenance page quickly in the NextJs application.

If you don't want to use Stop Words in Mongodb's Fulltext search, you need to set the default language to "none" in the index. If you already created the index, you have to drop it, and then make the new one with "default language" to be "none".

Sometimes the Node.js application does not close itself when you close the IDE, then when you try to start the application later, it will not start because the port is in use. It's easy to fix, but you need to remember the command to find the process and then kill it. Why not add the "kill-port" to the script in the package.json?

Semantic UI's table component is not quite mobile-friendly even with the stackable option. Actually, there is no standard way to make a stable responsive. A horizontal scrollable table is often being used, but if you like a stackable way, and with a table header as a label on each row, then in this article, I will show you how to do it using existing Semantic UI's table component with some small changes.

Webpack setup is a nightmare, at least for me. In this article, I am going to show you some webpack errors I got when I upgraded the webpack from 4 to 5, and the possible solutions to fix them.

TryCatch is very useful in JavaScript code to handle errors/exceptions. Without that, our code will die in the middle when there is an exception. Adding TryCatch at the top level of Await/Async may meet our need to prevent the code from interrupting in the middle, but in order for debugging the cause of the error, we would need to add the TryCatch to the nested Await/Async functions.

Surprisingly there is not a function to get a top-level US timezone. We can get a valid timezone from Intl object, but it is not a top-level, i.e., US/New-York vs US/Easten. Get a top group of US timezone is usually, for it will simplify the timezone selection dropdown. In this article, I will show how to create custom functions using raw IANA data to achieve this goal.

In this article, I show you how I implemented the tags function using remote data. The frontend is done by the Semantic UI Dropdown component and the backend is implemented using FeathersJS with Mongodb.

It has been a while since I last updated my first ever NPM package: ckeditor5-build-classic-dna. Since the office CKEditor5 has been updated to version 30.0.0, I think it's good to keep ckeditor5-build-classic-dna up to date.

"File" is a special type of data submitting to the server. It's encoded as multipart/form-data (i.e., binary data.) It does not like simple key/value pairs from text fields, which could be captured in params or data context of FeathersJS, we would need middleware to covert this to either params or data, and then be saved to the server.

PHP's naming convention is horribly inconsistent! In this article, we learn how to install MongoDB PHP8 Library On Ubuntu 20.08.