I Built a Full-Stack Blog Builder (beemy) - Self-Taught Developer Story

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Sass

SASS - I know there are a lot of new styling libraries out there like tailwind and styled-components, but I still just prefer regular CSS. SCSS is nice cause I can nest styles.

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Next.js

Next.JS - To be honest when I chose this framework I was going with what was most popular at the time. I had no idea what the difference between server and client rendering was or their respective use cases. But this was probably one of the best decisions because Vercel (the company that created Next.JS) made a really really good framework that makes building websites so much more enjoyable. I don’t have to think about the small configurations - Next.JS handles it for me. I remember at the time I was deciding between Next.JS and Gatsby and I am so glad I opted for Next.JS since it now seems like Next.JS is the preferred React framework.

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react-beautiful-dnd

React-dnd + react-beautiful-dnd - Used these for my drag-and-drop functionality for my blog builder (to drag articles to a blog builder component). I used to 2 drag and drop libraries because I wanted to cry after a day and a half of fiddling with react-dnd to try and create a sortable list. So I gave up and installed react-beautiful-dnd for my sortable list. If I were to do it again, I would opt for dnd-kit. It comes with drag and drop + sortable lists. I picked react-dnd initially because I wanted a lightweight library.

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Amazon SES

Twilio SendGrid + AWS SES - AWS SES is pretty strict on giving production access since they care about sender reputation. It has by far the best pricing compared to custom providers, but you are going to have to prove to them that the emails on your list are legit and vetted (meaning no bounces). I got rejected without a reason (they say it's for security reasons), but I’m pretty sure it's because I cannot guarantee that users don't maliciously spam my site with incorrect emails. So in my dev environment, I use AWS SES with whitelisted emails and in prod I use SendGrid. SendGrid allows 100 free emails a day.

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