Alex Merced

My name is Alex Merced of AlexMercedCoder.com. Developer with a focus on full stack web applications.

Brooklyn, NY Joined on Dec 8, 2019 https://www.alexmercedcoder.com

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Alex Merced

Nov 24

Auth with Express with JWT, MongoDB, and Postgres

#express #jwt #mongo #postgres

13 min read

Intro to Building Rest APIs in Node with Express, Koa and Fastify

I like them all but I mostly have used EJS, but been using li...

Sep 23

Pattern Matching in Javascript with alexmerced-patternmatcher

it needed a prefix cause "patternmatcher" is too similar to o...

Sep 7

Why you should be using Vue's new Composition API

I agree normally but with the setup attribute it’s a lot clea...

Aug 28

Why you should be using Vue's new Composition API

The composition API is 10x easier to use if you use the exper...

Aug 27

Understanding Client-Side Routing - React Router 101

how did you do that?

Jun 10

DISCUSS: JavaScript just DIED! What language should replace it?

If javascript died I'd imagine the internet would be fragment...

Apr 22

What are some Real World Projects to learn Angular and React

I have a tutorial where you build the same React, Svelte, Ang...

Apr 21

SolidJS - React meets Svelte?

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Apr 12

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Nov 21

Comparing React Router 5, 6, and React Location

#react #router

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4 min read

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Nov 20

Simple Setup for Application Wide State in React

#react #redux #recoil #state

1 min read

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Nov 19

MongoDB Relationships using Mongoose in NodeJS

#mongo #mongoose #node #database

3 min read

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Nov 18

The Guide to How to Implement Authorization in any language and framework

#auth0 #oauth #cookies #authentication

5 min read

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Nov 16

Developer Team Work Best Practices (Git, Agile/Scrum/Kanban, CI/CD)

#git #github #ci #cd

5 min read

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Nov 16

Creating a GraphQL Based Habit Tracker with Hasura and React (GraphQL/Hasura 101)

#hasura #graphql #react

7 min read

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Oct 29

My First React App - 2021 Intro to React

#react #props #state

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9 min read

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Oct 20

Express Templating Cheatsheet (Pug, EJS, Handlebars, Mustache, Liquid)

#express #handlebars #mustache #pug

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4 min read

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Oct 3

Guide to starting a quick http dev server from the command line (Python, Node, Ruby, PHP)

#python #ruby #php #node

2 min read

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Sep 25

How to use Neo4j Graph Database in your Node Project (Express, Koa, Fastify, etc.)

#neo4j #express #fastify #koa

2 min read

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Sep 9

Building a Full Stack Todo List with MongoDB, NextJS & Typescript

#nextjs #typescript #mongodb

8 min read

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Sep 6

Pattern Matching in Javascript with alexmerced-patternmatcher

#javascript

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5 min read

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Aug 30

How To Deploy Any Web App with Ubuntu/Nginx/LetsEncrypt

5 min read

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Aug 25

Frontend Javascript Ajax/Http Request Guide

#axios #fetch #jquery

6 min read

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Aug 20

Basic Authentication with Node/Express and Mongo

#express #authentication

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12 min read

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Aug 19

The renaissance of server side rendering with Alpine and HTMX, Reactivity with Minimal JS

#htmx #alpine #html #javascript

5 min read

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Aug 14

Ultimate Plain Vanilla DOM JS & JQuery Cheatsheet

#javascript #jquery

7 min read

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Aug 12

3 Ways to make API Requests in React (fetch/axios, merced-react-hooks, react-request)

#react #axios #redux

3 min read

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Aug 4

Understanding Data and Databases 101

#sql #cql #database

4 min read

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Jul 30

Basics of Building a CRUD API with Node (no framework)

#node #express #fastify #koa

10 min read

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Jul 27

Basics of Building a CRUD API with Typescript (NestJS and FoalTS)

#nestjs #typescript #javascript #foalts

7 min read

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Jul 25

Intro to Building Rest APIs in Node with Express, Koa and Fastify

#node #express #koa #fastify

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15 min read

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Jul 24

Creating a Full CRUD API with Ruby Sinatra

#ruby #sinatra

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5 min read

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Jul 23

Basics of Building a CRUD API with Flask or FASTApi

#flask #fastapi #python

11 min read

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Jul 12

The Concepts of JAMStack 101

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4 min read

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Jun 15

Intro to SvelteKit

#svelte #vite #next #nuxt

3 min read

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Jun 8

Basic Intro to NextJS

#next #react #nuxt #sveltekit

2 min read

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Jun 5

Ruby Sinatra with Postgres using Sequel

#sinatra #postgres #sequel

2 min read

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Jun 4

Intro to Ruby Sinatra

#ruby #sinatra

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1 min read

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Jun 3

10 Programming Languages Side by Side (JS, Python, Ruby, PHP, GO, Rust, Dart, C#, Java, Ballerina)

#java #python #ruby #javascript

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4 min read

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May 28

How to Work with Masonite - Python Rails/Laravel like Web Framework

#masonite #python #rails #laravel

2 min read

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May 28

FoalTS - Building a Typescript Based API

#typescript #rails

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3 min read

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May 21

Python Flask 101 - Intro and API Building

#flask #python

4 min read

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May 20

Creating Deno Scripts Like Node NPM Scripts

2 min read

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May 10

Creating an API with Deno (import maps, deps.ts, etc.)

3 min read

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May 3

Using Docker & Docker Compose to Create an Express/Neo4J Dev Environement (Intro to Graph Databases)

#neo4j #docker #node #express

5 min read

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Apr 27

React Conditional Rendering

#react

2 min read

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Apr 24

Intro to Fastify & The Liquid Templating Language

#fastify #liquid #node

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4 min read

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Apr 22

The Basics of Writing Tests for React with Jest

#react #jest

4 min read

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Apr 21

Ultimate 2021 Reference for React Functional Components

#react #vite #webpack #rollup

18 min read

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Apr 19

The Wonderful World of Javascript Bundlers

3 min read

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Apr 12

Ultimate Reference on Javascript Functions 2021

#javascript

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6 min read

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Apr 10

SolidJS - React meets Svelte?

#react #svelte #solidjs

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3 min read

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Apr 7

Pipenv, the best way to handle Python Virtual Environments?

#python

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2 min read

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Apr 1

Ultimate 2021 Guide to Deploying NodeJS (And DenoJS) Apps to Heroku

#node #heroku

4 min read

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Mar 29

Ultimate 2021 List of CSS Frameworks and Component Libraries for Angular, React, Vue and Svelte

#angular #svelte #react #vue

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2 min read

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Mar 22

Merced-Express: If Express Met Ruby on Rails

#express #ruby #rails

2 min read

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Mar 21

Ultimate Express & Mongo Reference

3 min read

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Mar 18

Rust & Rocket - Zero to Deploy

#rust #rocket

7 min read

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Mar 15

Creating APIs with Dart & Google Shelf: Zero to Deploy

#dart #flutter #shelf

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4 min read

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Mar 11

Intro to .Net 5 with VSCode - Zero to Deploy

#dotnet

8 min read

Alex Merced

Mar 9

Create Java Spring API with VSCODE & Postgres: 0 to Deploy

5 min read

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Mar 4

API With GO Buffalo in 2021: from zero to deploy

#go #buffalo #api

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7 min read

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Mar 4

Intro to Express, Templating and API's (EJS, Handlebars, Mustache, Pug)

#express #node #javascript

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9 min read

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Mar 3

Hello World - Laravel 101

6 min read

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Mar 2

More on Python Virtual Environments

#python

2 min read

Alex Merced

Mar 1

Creating a RESTFul API with Django without DjangoRestFramework

#python #django

2 min read

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Feb 26

Chart of Backend Web Frameworks 2021

#javascript #swift #kotlin #python

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2 min read

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Feb 21

Many Useful Javascript Tricks

4 min read

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