Everything should be as "simple" as it is. 

Obinna Ekwuno

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Software Engineer @GatsbyJs

 

Media Developer Expert for Cloudinary

 

Technical Writer / Accessibility Nuisance  

 

Making French Toast is my super power

Where did we start from ?

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New Jamstacky way

Jamstacky way 

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As long as there are people who know what is, there will always be people who question what can be! 

Client & Server

Services

The secret life of the frontend developer. 

Frontend developer 

Backend developer 

Fullstack developer 

  • 🗄 Build a custom  API or Database

  • 🗂 Manipulate media on the fly

  • 🔐 Setup authentication and authorization

  •  💻Handle form entries

  • 🚀Deploy a full app .

 

Part 1 - The line! 

Part 2 - The superpowers! 

Problem  Super power 
Custom API  Hasura 
Manipulate Media Cloudinary 
Authentication  Auth0
Handle file entries Netlify functions 
Deploy app  Netlify 

What about the actual frontend ?

J   +  A   +  M 

JavaScript     API    Markdown 

The new frontend developer 

Learning curve 

  • Serverless
  • CMS
  • GraphQL

                      etc.

Focus on the problem and find tools that will help solve them. 

There is another problem 

Sometimes as we abstract the chances of losing some context increases. 

Are there more questions than answers? 

Everything should be as simple as it is.

By Obinna Ekwuno

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Everything should be as simple as it is.

Building for the web requires understanding a lot of moving parts to be able to provide an experience that is accessible to everyone, in the quest for simplicity we’ve built with “static sites generators” and APIs which is good BUT! When you oversimplify and invent new methods to do stuff you might be losing context and user experience along the way. When do you say stop! it’s time to refactor and improve while doing it. Let’s talk about this.

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