7 posts tagged with "frontend"

I'm a backend developer learning React, and I'm confused. Why do I need useState when I can just create my own setEmail function like we do in Java? 🤔 Just set the variable and done! My frontend mentor showed me what happens when you try this—and why React's useState is actually solving a critical problem I didn't even know existed. This conversation revealed the beautiful machinery working behind React's scenes.

I'm a backend developer learning frontend, and I just encountered something confusing. I use await login({ email, password }) and my code waits for the response before continuing—isn't that synchronous? 🤔 But the method is marked async, so it's asynchronous? My frontend mentor explained the beautiful double nature of async/await: it makes code look synchronous inside the function but stay asynchronous to the outside world. This conversation finally made async/await click for me.

I'm learning frontend development, and something weird just happened. I added only w-full to my button, and the text "Click me" became centered horizontally! 🤔 I didn't add any text-centering classes. My frontend mentor revealed something I never knew: browsers have default styles that help us without us even knowing. This conversation opened my eyes to the invisible CSS working behind the scenes.

I'm a backend developer learning frontend, and I just noticed something weird in Firefox Inspector. I removed p-8 from my div, and the height changed from 124px to 60px—but the width stayed at 384px! 🤔 My frontend mentor explained the CSS Box Model and why w-96 behaves differently from h-auto. This conversation finally made the box model click for me.

I'm learning frontend after years of backend work, and I just discovered something fundamental that nobody explains clearly: the display property. I added block to my label, and suddenly my form inputs stacked vertically instead of sitting side-by-side. I had no idea what I just did. 🤯 My frontend mentor explained how block, inline, and inline-block are the foundation that flexbox and grid are built on. This conversation changed everything.

I'm a backend developer learning frontend, and I just spent 2 hours debugging why my centered login form moved to the left when I "simplified" my code. The CSS felt like black magic. 🎩✨ My frontend mentor showed me why two divs are NOT just redundant nesting—they're a fundamental pattern in CSS positioning. Let me share this conversation that changed how I think about layout.

"Why is my API returning HTML error pages?!" I stared at my console in disbelief. My React frontend was trying to parse JSON, but Spring Security was happily serving up a Whitelabel Error Page for failed authentication attempts. This took me 3 hours to fix. Let me show you how to make Spring Security play nice with modern frontends. 🎨✨